Question:
So the poll is this,

1. Bubble Wash like Girl_Mark ? JTF BubbleWash - Girl_Mark

2. Mist Washing like many posts on this site - Mist Washing

3. Why not both. Mist wash the water into the barrel, and bubble for a while after. It seems like a good idea to me, but it may be overkill(Saturation)

LOLS = Land of Living Skies

Choices:
Bubble Wash
Mist Wash
Both

 

What about another option for No Washing.

I mist wash until the wash water is clear,
Then buble wash for a sparkley polished product.
Never understood why one would bubble wash first, transporting all of the soaps endlessly back up a column of biodiesel, when mist washing settles it once and forever out of the product. Actually, my "mist" is produced by micro irrigation foggers.

"Mister" Diff
Harmoneum est Tedium

The Diff is right it hardly makes sense to bubble soaps back through the biodiesel.

Mist washing for the first run makes sense followed by bubbles.

The beauty of bubbles is you can ignore the process and get on wioth your life. No worries about the tank overflowing.

I thnk that many people who mist DO do both- MISTING first, then bubbling. The reason is that they can avoid emulsification by removing soaps by doing the misting with fresh water first, and then save on water/or save on labor emptying their wash vessel (I think?>???), by bubbling for a while.
My buddy just tried recirculating mist wash water (using a fountain pump) and found that IF any emulsion did form (we work with an oil that is very prone to poor conversion and emulsion problems) and found that trying to mist/recirculate caused serious problems IF emulsification happened anyway.

mark

Please see hinterTech's revised poll. I am narrow minded, and didn't consider all the options.

Here is the link:
Revised Wash Poll

LOLS = Land of Living Skies

Sorry LoL you are not narrow minded ,I just advanced a good Idea.
http://biodiesel.infopop.net/2/OpenTopic?a=tpc&s=465094322&f=175094322&m=5133063917
Hintertech