I ran the Orion diesel making machine after a lengthy refitting. A number of refinements were commissioned including brick refractory, revis...

It was back to the drawing board with a major revision after the refractory failure. Refractory kiln bricks and calcium aluminate castable c...

The retort suffered decay of the heat ducting. It appears as though proper refractory is needed to properly fix the issue. The retort vessel...

Amongst new parts for the Orion retort trialed recently was an extended thermocouple retort probe, Sestos temperature controller and a solen...

A run making diesel weight fuel of .845 Specific Gravity was completed at the weekend. There was a number of new parts to test including ext...

I completed a test run with a preheater designed to raise the temperature of the oil feedstock. About 180Liters of diesel was made during t...

265 liters was the yield from 13.5 hours of continuous run time for the Orion retort refinery. On a 8°C early morning the heat was started a...

1April2014 Schematic design showing basic layout. Made using Open Office Draw. Please browse this blog for the dedicated schematic diag...

Make was 185 liters diesel and 5 liters petrol.Pic shows reflux and retort temperatures using 12v LCD display from thermocouple signal T...

I made a good step forward with efficiency with the latest changes to the Orion retort. The video shows selected footage of diesel product...