Crude oil

[760gamemaster]

A friend of mine was looking at my CUCV today and told my he gets good old western Pa. crude out of a local well 250 gallons at a time filters it with a 10 micron filter and burns it in his 99 Ford . He offered me some to try has anyone else tried this?

 

[bill2444]

I was wondering the same thing, At work out here in North Dakota the crude is so clean and new looking i think you could drink it. But i wouldn't forget your h2s monitor when handling any crude...............

 

[Tow4]

No, but if I had an oil well I darn sure would.

Filter it well, my wife worked for Chevron as a geologist and says all kinds of stuff comes up in the oil depending on the formation you get it out of.

 

[kipman]

It differs from state to state, the crude from my well would not work without a lot of refining. that said some crude is light and sweet, may work just fine, the sweet crude is more used for fuels, the crude in my part of the world is used for lubricants.

 

[eagle4g63]

Man you guys have everything!!!! I need me a crude oil well

 

[760gamemaster]

I was wondering the same thing, At work out here in North Dakota the crude is so clean and new looking i think you could drink it. But i wouldn't forget your h2s monitor when handling any crude...............

What is an h2s monitor?

 

[Jesse6325]

Hyrogen sulfide, Nasty stuff. Smells like rotten eggs and is DEADLY!
A H2S monitor will let you know when there is too much of it in the air.
Some wells down here have them on site, I think it's also called sour gas.

 

[Hooty481]

a friend of mine is wanting me to try some in my m35. we are here in ky. i am gone filter it really good first then try a tank.

 

[wreckerman893]

Keep in mind that during the refining process a lot of really nasty stuff is removed from crude oil.

Unless you are set up to remove all the same crud (acid, water, dirt, sulfer, etc) you may cause severe damage to the engine.

I'm not saying that you can't run it but be very careful until you know what's in it.

 

[panshark]

I'm not trying to be at all negative, but please post up if crude does nuke a multifuel, I think it would be very beneficial for all to know about...

 

[DEMON]

If the h2s, gets to concentrations where you can smell it. It's usually too late, and you become an oilfield statistic.

It's immediately deadly in the most severe ways. It's not like methane, where it smells bad but its no big deal. The sour gas wells here in Southern Alberta are around 38-40% h2s concentrations. If you smell hydrogen sulfide your sense of smell is paralized inside of 1 second. Then you die. That's it. End of story.

H2s was used by the allies in WWI.


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[Beerslayer]

I used to be an operator in an oil refinery. Some of the crude we got in was nasty, really high parafin content. Loads we would get from another oilfield were so light and sweet you could just about burn it in a gas engine.

One of the design criteria of the multifuel engine was to be able to burn crude oil. It will do it and just fine. Maybe not forever, and not just any crude, but any light sweet crude will work in it just fine. You are going to go through more filters, well a lot more.

So it is really very subjective. How well it will work depends on the quality of the crude oil you get.

Another consideration is that the crude we got typically had a 2% water content. Dunno what you are going to do about that, but we would heat it up in a big tank and let the water settle out. One of the tank farm operator's jobs was to take care of that.

If I had good crude I wouldn't hesitate to burn it in a deuce. Just filter it good and go.

 

[kipman]

You guys are on the money concerning H2S, a oil field worker was killed here last year, it is heavy, lays low, he bent over a mud pit, took one breath and was gone.

 

[bill2444]

Even the crude oil it's self has h2s gas that is (out gassing) from the oil. It's under high pressure in the ground and thru pumping- then stored in high vertical tanks. So expect it to slowy dissapate from smaller quanity tanks. Which means obsereve some saftey guidlines when handling. Even with a 250 gallon IBC don't take off the cap on top of the tank then put your head over it to look in etc..

 

[Heath_h49008]

This is a thread I have been waiting for for quite some time!

Any option to drive off the impurities with heat in a fractional distillation?

What precautions can be used to capture/react the dihydrogen monosulfide? It's definitely flammable... but if my stoichiometry is correct... it would produce water vapor and sulfur dioxide... sound like a good gas to fuel the burners/boiler for the still. (You would want a chimney.)

 

[kipman]

They use scrubbing stations in Ohio where H2S is heavy, the by product is a nasty yellow cake/powder, get it on your clothing and good luck getting it out.

 

[Warthog]

I guess alot of you guys are too young to remember the John Wayne movie HeckFighters.

H2S killed a few guys

 

[deuceaid]

Heath , I bet you would try cracking granny`s shorts in a fractional still if it would run in a multi fuel If you burnt the gases and ran them thru a tank of water , couldnt you make your own sulfuric battery acid?

 

[DEMON]

Woooooops........ reply wrong thread. Nothing to see here..........

 

[kipman]

I was hatched in 1962, I do recall the movie.