AGR Energy - Quite the crew!

A couple of weeks ago I had the chance to go & visit a place I've been eagerly awaiting to see for many months now. It was the headquarters for AGR Energy.

Now, you may ask who AGR Energy is? Well, they're none other than the inventors and manufacturer of the BioPro Biodiesel Processors! That's who!

These guys are cool too! During my tenure involved in Biodiesel I have yet to meet a group smarter, more polite, more ingenious, and more talented than this group of guys.

They've come up with what I believe to be the Mercedes of personal Biodiesel processors. If you've read my blog you've heard me rave about how cool their products are (the BioPro 190) as well as how great they've been to work with as well.

Well, now that I've been to their place, seen what they do, and watched them in action, I'm even a bigger fan!

These guy's have figured out so many of the problems that home brewers run into and solved them so well that it's downright astounding! I was like a kid in a candy factory!

Galen, their mechanical engineer (and the G in AGR), walked me through how the machines are built and how they were engineered. He'd be showing me something and a big "Aha!" would go off in my head thinking, "So THAT's how you can solve that problem!" A lot of the things they showed me I can't share publicly with you all here (or else I'd have to kill you), but some I can.

One of the neat things that really impressed me is their use of the vent fan. It's mounted way up on top of the machine just over the oil tank inlet. This puppy is HEAVY!!!! They didn't go for anything chincy here at all! Nope. The thing is The Real McCoy! And MAN can it put out some serious air!

Well, not only is it perfect for helping to get rid of fumes under the hood, but the thing acts as a venturi to draw out the moisture from the biodiesel when it's drying. Man, how cool is that?

Other things included an ingenious way for the machine to identify when it had discharged all the water and hit Biodiesel and things like how to keep the elements from burning out because of oil contamination.

I'm tellin' ya, these guy's are downright incredible!

So, how incredible? Well, lets talk about some of the cool advances.

How about a machine that regularly will pass the 3/27 methanol test?
How about a machine that's as easy to use as a dishwasher?
How about a machine that only requires you to push buttons to make Biodiesel?
How's dem apples?

It's true! The things just plain & simply rock!

Here's a link to a couple photo galleries I put together from my "trip" to AGR.

This link is to a photo gallery of how to use the processor.
http://www.utahbiodieselsupply.com/biopro/biopro190/usingtheprocessor/
Check it out! It's pretty darn easy!

This one's to some pictures I took of the biodiesel passing the 3/27 test.
http://www.utahbiodieselsupply.com/biopro/BioProqualitytestkit/

And this one....this one is to their new toy...the big, bad BioPro 380!
http://www.utahbiodieselsupply.com/biopro/biopro380/BioPro380gallery/

This is the REAL reason I went! The thing is incredible! Instead of producing a measly 50 gallons every 48 hours, this puppy produces 100 gallons every 48 hours. Yep! It doubled it!

Now, that may not sound like much to you, and you may have seen some of the poly processors out there, but lemme tell ya, that 48 hours includes the following:
1- Processing (Acid AND Base method)
2- Washing (it washes 3 times)
3- Drying (an agitated heated drying With that cool fan!)

So, not only does it just make the bio, but it also washes and dries the stuff so that it's ready to use right from the tank.

The thing is just downright incredible!

I'm telling you the thing rocks!

Here's Galen with it:


And here's some of the Biodiesel it produced:

Pretty cool lookin' stuff, huh!

Wanna see why it makes such good bio?

It's all in that propeller.

Here's what it looks like when it's mixing:

Yep. It really can mix!

The thing is just incredible!

One of the other cool things it solved was how to mix the methoxide properly.

Yep, that oughta do it. Even the methoxide tank has an impeller in it!

I was so dang impressed by what I saw that it was astounding! I was sold on BioPro's before I got there but once I saw the new toy I had perma-grin on my face for the rest of the trip.

Amazing, simply amazing stuff!

I loved it!

Anyway, there's a lot more that'll be coming from these guy's. You can bet that's for sure!

I just figured I'd show you what I saw on my trip.

I also had a chance to have some great food (and introduce the BioPro crew) with Girl Mark and some of her class participants. The thing was great!

Well, more later....I just thought I'd share some of "what I've been up to" lately...

-Graydon