[biofuels-biz] High FFA oils - another way

I've been working with some high-FFA oil, titrating at 9.15ml, which I think is equivalent to about 23% FFA content, in this case. So go acid-base of course. Short of that, it's not easy to process oil like this with the usual single-stage base process. You're likely to end up with about 50%

Re: [biofuels-biz] Cracking

So then maybe building a solar cracking unit might be a option. What would be involved in cracking? Is it a just purely a heat process. Or are other factors involved? From the previous discussions it sounded like an involved process or can you run a calculation that gives you the right input

Re: [biofuels-biz] Cracking

Well I have not seen kerosene at truck stops. When you travel north from the south and you heading or in subzero weather. Just no that many places to pull a semi in to keep it warm or heat it backup. Steve Spence wrote: not by intelligent diesel owners. the logical choice is kerosene. Steve

Re: [biofuels-biz] High FFA oils - another way

- Original Message - From: Keith Addison [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com Subject: [biofuels-biz] High FFA oils - another way snip I found an easier way though: two-stage base-base, only the first stage doesn't use methanol, it uses (horror!) water. Mix the titration

[biofuels-biz] Re: [biofuel] High FFA oils - another way

Forwarded from Biofuel - response to Ken Provost. Hello Ken Keith wrote: I've been working with some high-FFA oil, titrating at 9.15ml, which I think is equivalent to about 23% FFA content. Mix the titration amount of NaOH, in this case 9.15 grams per litre of oil, with 40 ml of

Re: [biofuels-biz] High FFA oils - another way

Hello Paul - Original Message - From: Keith Addison [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com Subject: [biofuels-biz] High FFA oils - another way snip I found an easier way though: two-stage base-base, only the first stage doesn't use methanol, it uses (horror!) water. Mix

Re: [biofuel] Air car.

Ok. thanks. On Fri, 13 Sep 2002 13:56:23 -0700 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hard to say. Here is a more-detailed link: http://www.theaircar.com/howitworks.html GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno

Re: [biofuel] Air car.

Hello all participants of air car debate, I think that the technique opens up a range of interesting solutions and will try to mention a few, 1. The major value is not as an energy efficient way of running a car. As such, I agree with several of you, that pointed out its lack of

Re: [biofuel] Air car.

natural gas is a petroleum byproduct. there are many petroleum based power plants on the east coast. more than nuclear and hydro. There is one in NYC even. Steve Spence Subscribe to the Renewable Energy Newsletter Discussion Boards: http://www.green-trust.org Renewable Energy Pages -

Re: [biofuel] Need info on Perkins D3152 Engine

Kirk and Juan to the rescue. There we have it. Thank you. French - cheval vapeur (horse steam) Spanish - Caballo Vapor (horse steam) Now we know what the CV means in g/cvh (grams per metric horsepower hour) As Kirk pointed out: metric horsepower, a unit of power, defined to be the power

RE: [biofuel] Need info on Perkins D3152 Engine

Hello, Steve I think that unit you are refering to, it is in Spanish: consumption rate of fuel per energy delived in one hour g/CVh = gramos/Caballos Vapor hora = gram/Horse Power hour CV (Caballo Vapor) = Steam Horse Power Caballo = Horse Vapor = Steam Regards Juan -Mensaje

Re: [biofuel] Air car.

Thanks for some interesting ideas. I have been debating with someone in the global energy options about vehicles powered by Liquid Nitrogen and it has also raised some of these issues. While that type of power concept does not appear to be nearly as well-developed, I think that it could be

Re: [biofuel] Air car.

2. Several times on this list, people have pointed out the flaws in looking at single stage or a few stages efficiency. Only a few weeks ago, Keith wrote in an elegant way about this. Do you happen to recall what thread this was in? Yahoo! Groups Sponsor

[biofuel] Fwd: Perkins

From: M Stockman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Perkins Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2002 22:48:31 +0800 Dear Sir, I have just been looking at this site and thought I would let you know that I used to own a Lincoln AS 400 welder which had the motor that is being talked about. I had

RE: [biofuel] Air car.

I think the process pencils better if you liquify the nitrogen rather than compress it. This is even more so for refrigerated transport where the refrigerator is useful load. In the Southwest even air conditioning is a large load. Kirk -Original Message- From: Hakan Falk [mailto:[EMAIL

[biofuel] FDA Negligent On Mercury in Fish 9-14-02

:-( I like tuna. Seems the coal industry is the major source of the problem. A National Academy of Sciences report earlier this year said US coal-fired utilities emitted about 40 tons of mercury annually, and that vulnerable groups such as pregnant women could suffer great harm from

Re: [biofuel] FDA Negligent On Mercury in Fish 9-14-02

No! No! No! No! No! Surface water methyl mercury contamination is from the emissions of the gold and silver smelters of Cortez some 500 years ago, having settled on lands beneath prevailing wind currents. Or so the coal fired power industry in Florida and the wider SE USA tried to get citizens

[biofuel] High FFA oils - another way

I've been working with some high-FFA oil, titrating at 9.15ml, which I think is equivalent to about 23% FFA content, in this case. So go acid-base of course. Short of that, it's not easy to process oil like this with the usual single-stage base process. You're likely to end up with about 50%

[biofuel] What about Hydrogen?? Was: Air car.

Been following this air car thread for awhile. Still can't see why an air car seem oooh ... ahhh ... wowww workable ... and yet hydrogen powering a car gets the 50 caliber hitting the airplane followed by crash -n- burn. I'm confused because in both air and H2, energy gets stored the same way.

Re: [biofuel] High FFA oils - another way

Keith wrote: I've been working with some high-FFA oil, titrating at 9.15ml, which I think is equivalent to about 23% FFA content. Mix the titration amount of NaOH, in this case 9.15 grams per litre of oil, with 40 ml of water per litre of oil. Add the dissolved NaOH to the oil (room

Re: [biofuel] What about Hydrogen?? Was: Air car.

I believe by present pressure storage methods, range is somewhere around 150 miles for an H2 fuel cell powered regular car. I don't know what the range is of the fairly well-established BMW program to use hydrogen as fuel in their regular engines on their 740 iL's. That process uses liquid

Re: [biofuel] High FFA oils - another way

Hello Ken Keith wrote: I've been working with some high-FFA oil, titrating at 9.15ml, which I think is equivalent to about 23% FFA content. Mix the titration amount of NaOH, in this case 9.15 grams per litre of oil, with 40 ml of water per litre of oil. Add the dissolved NaOH to

[biofuel] Ram Press has arrived!

Just a little update on my new Hela Mk II Vegetable Oil Ram Press from ApproTEC Tanzania. It finally arrived, after going through Kilamanjaro, Amsterdam, Los Angeles (by mistake!), up to San Francisco, through customs, and back down to San Jose. Price for the press -- a mere $265 USD. Price for