Patent ID: 8562841

Claim:
A continuous flow separator for biodiesel formation comprising: (a) a tank, the tank forms a hollow interior further comprising a main compartment, weir-formed separate compartment, and a sump, the weir-formed separate compartment is formed at an end of the tank, the sump is formed at the bottom of the tank, the main compartment is located over the sump, the sump further containing a probe; (b) a set of horizontally stacked plates, the plates being placed in the main compartment and set over the sump, each plate features a set of conical structures and at an apex of the conical structure is a cone aperture while proximate to the base of the cone is at least one trough aperture; wherein the plates are configured and stacked to align the cone apertures into series of cone aperture columns and to align the trough apertures into a series of trough aperture columns, the probe measuring either an electrical resistance or an electrical conductivity of a glycerine fraction in the sump which is used to control the flow of the glycerine fraction out of the sump.