RE: [biofuel] Glycerin and absolute alcohol

2001-05-11 Thread Ricardo Tournier
Thanks Marc for your contribution with this oldtimer. If you can scan the relevant pages, I«ll appreciate it very much. Regards. Ricardo Tournier - Original Message - From: F. Marc de Piolenc [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2001 12:36 AM Subject:

Re: [biofuel] Re: Intro.

2001-05-11 Thread Keith Addison
Hi Jerry Hi Aleks and All, Water vapor injection will cut NOX. Maybe water injection in the exhaust may clean the catalyst. Mixing kerosene will lower gel point. He said a non-toxic additive (as in non-petroleam based), which lets out kerosene. Keith Addison Journey to Forever

RE: [biofuel] Glycerin and absolute alcohol

2001-05-11 Thread Keith Addison
Thanks Marc for your contribution with this oldtimer. If you can scan the relevant pages, I«ll appreciate it very much. Regards. Ricardo Tournier Yes, indeed, thankyou Marc. If we could nail down the purifying and impurities issues, the whole process could be almost self-contained, the holy

[biofuel] New member

2001-05-11 Thread A2x4squarejohn
Hello : I am new to this group and to biofuel. I have a diesel truck that I use in my business and would like to convert it's fuel usage to bio. I am very intrigued by design of Dale Scroggins machine on the Journey to Forever site. I contacted Keith Addison about it and he suggested that I

RE: [biofuel] Glycerin and absolute alcohol

2001-05-11 Thread Ken Provost
By the way, Ken Provost, if you're reading this, salt (sodium chloride) is cheap and obtainable enough, and easy to dry. Any idea how much water a pound/kilo of salt would absorb? I read EVERYTHING :-)! Thx for reminding me -- I actually bought a big box of rock salt to play with, and it's

pH6 biodiesel - was Re: [biofuel] please help me

2001-05-11 Thread Keith Addison
kesara [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for your response. I use coconut oil, sodium methoxide esterification and then bubble washing with water. Then I don't understand how you ended up with pH 6, but then I haven't worked with coconut oil. How would you go about adjusting the pH up to 7? If

RE: [biofuel] Glycerin and absolute alcohol

2001-05-11 Thread Ricardo Tournier
As far as I know, sodium chloride cristals are naturaly anhidrous. It seems to me that this will not work. FYI I tried to dehydrate 95% ethanol with Copper Sulphate, that has 5 mols H2O, previously dehydrated by calcination. It didn«t work. You need a lot of anhydrous salt and you loose a lot of

Re: [biofuel] Re: Solar boiler, vacuum pumps

2001-05-11 Thread Tim Zarbo
Almost any refrigerator or AC compressor will work to make a vacuum pump from. Keeping oil in them is the only problem. There is one for SURE that I know of(I have one I use for to compress air in 'BoyzTown' (my shed/workshop ;) I was able to get approx 120psi into a 5 gal tank with an old

Re: [biofuel] Unsubscribe.

2001-05-11 Thread Jeremy Shuey
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Re: [biofuel] Re: Solar boiler, vacuum pumps

2001-05-11 Thread Tim Zarbo
- Original Message - From: David Reid [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2001 8:37 PM Subject: Re: [biofuel] Re: Solar boiler, vacuum pumps Thanks Jerry, Got any refs, books, or other info sources I can go to or get to learn a

RE: [biofuel] Glycerin and absolute alcohol

2001-05-11 Thread Keith Addison
Hi Ricardo, Ken, Marc and all As far as I know, sodium chloride cristals are naturaly anhidrous. It seems to me that this will not work. Sodium chloride is very hygroscopic (absorbs water). I'm interested to know how much water it will absorb before it becomes saturated. Mathewson provides

Re: [biofuel] Glycerin and absolute alcohol

2001-05-11 Thread ronald miller sr
Could someone help me? I am new to all of this. I want to make ethanol legally here in the U.S. What is the quickest and most painless method of obtaining a B.A.T.F. permit and what are, if any, the limitation of the permit. - Original Message - From: Keith Addison [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

Re: [biofuel] Glycerin and absolute alcohol

2001-05-11 Thread Tim Zarbo
I would also like to know this. -Tim Z - Original Message - From: ronald miller sr [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2001 7:54 PM Subject: Re: [biofuel] Glycerin and absolute alcohol Could someone help me? I am new to all of this. I want to make

[biofuel] FutureTruck Students Rise to the Challenge

2001-05-11 Thread Keith Addison
No biodiesel!! :-( But - BP-Amoco on the sponsors' list, and, so: Facilitating the Next Generation of Natural Gas Trucks. Sigh... Keith Addison Journey to Forever Handmade Projects Tokyo http://journeytoforever.org/ From: http://afdc3.nrel.gov/documents/altfuelnews/5_1contents.html AFDC -

[biofuel] Discouraging Idle Behavior

2001-05-11 Thread Keith Addison
From: http://afdc3.nrel.gov/documents/altfuelnews/5_1contents.html AFDC - Alternative Fuel News - Vol. 5, No. 1. http://afdc3.nrel.gov/documents/altfuelnews/5_1feature_idle.html AFDC - Alternative Fuel News - Vol. 5, No. 1 Discouraging Truck Idling Discouraging Idle Behavior Most people don't

Alcohol permits - was Re: [biofuel] Glycerin and absolute alcohol

2001-05-11 Thread Keith Addison
Hi Tim and Ronald Burea of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms: http://www.atf.treas.gov/alcohol/index.htm ATF Online Alcohol Programs COLAs | Customer Service | FAQs | Industry Circulars Information | Permits | Programs | Publications | Regulations Retailers | Rules | Statistics PLEASE guys, SNIP

Re: [biofuel] Unsubscribe.

2001-05-11 Thread Keith Addison
Jeremy Shuey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, i did it.. I emailed the unsubscribe email address and what do you know.. It unsubscribed me. Cut and paste this email address and you will be unsubscribed also!.. [EMAIL PROTECTED] :-) Glad you came back. There seem to be some though who (a)

[biofuel] Glycerine and absolute alcohol

2001-05-11 Thread F. Marc de Piolenc
I am hugely gratified by the interest in this on the List. I inquired first because I feared that either this would already be common knowledge or nobody would care. I will scan the relevant pages today for Monsieur Ricardo, then resume translating. The final product will likely be a .pdf file

Unsubscribe - Re: [biofuel] (unknown)

2001-05-11 Thread Keith Addison
marie miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have tried. Why don't you see if it works for you? It works. Anyway Jeremy Shuey just proved it. It seems you can't spell unsubscribe, you get it wrong each time. Why don't you copy the unsubscribe address and paste it in the address field (To:)? You

[biofuel] General Motors and BP Launch E85 Fuel Program

2001-05-11 Thread Keith Addison
General Motors and BP Launch E85 Fuel Program Michigan station to be re-fueling home for GM company vehicles DETROIT, MI, May. 10 -/E-Wire/PR Newswire/-- General Motors is promoting the use of E85 renewable, alternative fuel in its company-owned vehicles in southeastern

[biofuel] New Honda Insight Model Earns 57 MPG EPA City Rating

2001-05-11 Thread Keith Addison
New Honda Insight Model Earns 57 MPG EPA City Rating With Advanced CVT Automatic Transmission TORRANCE, CA, May. 10 -/E-Wire/PR Newswire/-- Just in time to help consumers fight back against rising gas prices, a new version of Honda's fuel efficient Insight

[biofuel] Hemp hits its stride

2001-05-11 Thread Keith Addison
http://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/science/story/0,3605,488409,00.html Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | * Hemp hits its stride The cousin of cannabis is perfect for an industry looking for greener resources, says Claire Cockcroft Thursday May 10, 2001 The Guardian It is green, high in

Re: [biofuel] Re: Solar boiler, vacuum pumps

2001-05-11 Thread David Reid
Hi Tim, Thanks for the refs. Will look into them further over the weekend. At this stage particularly interested in looking further into these scroll compressors and making up a steam generation unit for glycerine refining and purification if that is possible. Have you or anyone made

Re: [biofuel] Re: vacuum pumps

2001-05-11 Thread Dana Linscott
David, From what I have seen these units cannot be rebuilt as the scrolls themselves are matched and once scored cannot be resurfaced. I also beleive that the units are of a sealed construction and are difficult to reseal. I occasionally see large industrial ascroll compressors for sale in the

Re: [biofuel] methanol production/corncobs

2001-05-11 Thread Dana Linscott
One of our project members has requested that I investigate the possability of methanol production using corn cobs as a feedstock. Consisting of mainly cellulose I imagine that a destructive distillation might be the route to go. Does anyone have a lead for more information on destructive

Re: [biofuel] Glycerine and absolute alcohol

2001-05-11 Thread Dana Linscott
Marc, Lots of interest here! Am I to understand that this has potential to lower energy requirments for alcohol production including ethanol? If so the ethanol cooperatives in MN would be hugely interested as it would serve to delink ethanol production with natural gas prices. What a coup if

[biofuel] Change of server.

2001-05-11 Thread Ricardo Tournier
Hi Keith! I want to change the address of my subscription to the group. I guess that I must unsubscribe my present address and subscribe to the new one. Please confirm. Thanks. Ricardo [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Biofuel at Journey to Forever:

Re: [biofuel] General Motors and BP Launch E85 Fuel Program

2001-05-11 Thread David Reid
About time but at this point most of these big companies only really seem to be paying lip service and appearing to do the right thing so they stay on the right side of the public rather than making any really true commitment. B.r., David General Motors and BP Launch E85 Fuel Program