Re: [biofuels-biz] Fwd: Biorefinery projects take first steps

2003-11-07 Thread David Teal
Quite impressive by the American funding agencies. One reservation though: The project's goal is to develop catalyst systems and a continuous process to produce isosorbide from sorbitol and to support a scale-up of the process, purification and recovery, and pilot plant operation. So are we

Re: [biofuels-biz] Fwd: Biorefinery projects take first steps

2003-11-07 Thread Keith Addison
Hello David Quite impressive by the American funding agencies. One reservation though: The project's goal is to develop catalyst systems and a continuous process to produce isosorbide from sorbitol and to support a scale-up of the process, purification and recovery, and pilot plant

Re: [biofuel] home heating with biodiesel?

2003-11-07 Thread rajesh sk
Dear Mark, Biodiesel can be used in place of furnace oil but it needs burner modification.If u can modify burner your furnace efficiency can be improved. Rajesh IIT Delhi Mark Finewood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone have experience using biodiesel for home heat in place of fuel oil

Re: [biofuel] home heating with biodiesel?

2003-11-07 Thread Dan Maker
Mark Finewood said: Does anyone have experience using biodiesel for home heat in place of fuel oil in their furnace? Take a quick look in the archives for October or September, there is an article in Home Power magazine (I think that's it) by a couple that converted their fuel oil furnace

Re: [biofuel] RE: daihatsu - was Digest Number 1832

2003-11-07 Thread Keith Addison
Hi Dan Keith Addison said: Also the wvo that i have acquired is mainly ground nut oil rather than rape. It shouldn't be a problem. It's not a drying oil, so it won't polymerise. I'm probably wrong, but you may wish to double check and make sure that the nut oil you are getting is not

Re: [biofuel] home heating with biodiesel?

2003-11-07 Thread Appal Energy
Article on a residential oil-fired furnace running biodiesel from Homepower Magazine, October/November, 2003, page 40-44 http://www.homepower.com/files/97p1-47.pdf Biodiesel Blends in Space Heating Equipment NREL-BNL68852 http://www.homepower.com/files/Biodiesel_Space_Heating.pdf - Original

Re: [biofuel] RE: daihatsu - was Digest Number 1832

2003-11-07 Thread Dan Maker
Keith Addison said: Indeed. But groundnuts/peanuts aren't really nuts, nor do they come from trees. It's an annual legume, in other words a vegetable, and the nuts are a sort of underground bean. True, I read ground nut, as in chopped and processed to extract the oil. The peanut is a

Re: [biofuel] RE: daihatsu - was Digest Number 1832

2003-11-07 Thread Keith Addison
Keith Addison said: Indeed. But groundnuts/peanuts aren't really nuts, nor do they come from trees. It's an annual legume, in other words a vegetable, and the nuts are a sort of underground bean. True, I read ground nut, as in chopped and processed to extract the oil. The peanut is a

[biofuel] glycerin use

2003-11-07 Thread Mccall Tom WP US
After one removed the water could the glycerin be mixed with SVO and burned in a Diesel? Tom [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Sponsor -~-- Buy Ink Cartridges or Refill Kits for your HP, Epson, Canon or

Re: [biofuel] glycerin use

2003-11-07 Thread Appal Energy
No. First, you would need to find to incorporate an emuslifying agent to get the glycerol to mix with the oil. Second, you would also be adding a water fraction unless you distilled it out first. (The presumption is being made that you are speaking of glycerol/ffa separation as discussed at

[biofuel] Producing cellulosic ethanol

2003-11-07 Thread MH
An article below QA with Iogen... but first something -- ABOUT The Environmental and Energy Study Institute (EESI) is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting environmentally sustainable societies EESI was founded in 1984 by a bipartisan group of Members of

Re: [biofuel] Microturbines vs fuel cells

2003-11-07 Thread Alan Petrillo
Greg and April wrote: Possibly, it was what I was told by a friend sometime ago, that was taking a course in school, and one of the problems that they were working on, of course it could of been something else, it was 10 - 15 yrs ago. Noted. As for the aircraft, don't forget that with

[biofuel] 350 Liter Reactor w/agitator

2003-11-07 Thread Appal Energy
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[biofuel] Re: [vegoil-diesel] Re: Pumps on eBay

2003-11-07 Thread Alan Petrillo
Dana wrote: They look more like vacuum pumps to me. Could be. I'm used to general aviation vacuum pumps, so I'm not familiar with what kind of pumps The Big Boys use. Even so, they might be useful for some of the guys building biodiesel processors if they can figure out how to power them.

[biofuel] Re: [vegoil-diesel] Chemical jug fitting (long)

2003-11-07 Thread Alan Petrillo
Well, leave it to me to reinvent the wheel. I found out what I have built is a dual flow rotating fitting. Now you can buy dual flow rotating fittings, but they're expensive. You can probably get them used from an agricultural junkyard, but I wouldn't bet on it. The good part about doing it

Re: Bypass Filtration was Re: [biofuel] Engine oil choices

2003-11-07 Thread craigreece
Aidan, My pleasure. I think it was a fruitful discussion. Craig A Wilkins wrote: Craig, Thank you for hitting the head on the nail. I apologize for mixing up a deep clean bypass filter with a full flow filter which has gone into bypass mode. Aidan - Original Message