Dean.
MH wrote:
The Carbohydrate Economy Newsletter
Summer 2002
By David Morris
http://www.carbohydrateeconomy.org
Cellulose to Ethanol: A Progress Report
Making ethanol in large quantities from
lignocellulosic crops is, for many, the
equivalent of finding the Holy Grail. After all,
I would have thought that hemp was anything but evil, A hemp plant looks
the same as a normal marijuana plant but only bigger and I believe more
woody. From my understanding Hemp has little to none of the chemicals
found in marijuana and all that you would get from smoking it is a
really
Sorry I could be mistaken there is always something new to learn but do
you mean methanol instead of ethanol. Methanol is otherwise known as
wood alcohol and a small amount is formed during on the grain
fermentation during the making of alcohol (Ethanol) beverages the Grain
husks being the
I'm sure I will be corrected if I am wrong but I seem to remember from
one of my other groups that charcoal would need to be converted to
activated carbon via super heated steam this steam opens up millions
upon millions of microscopic pores on the carbon which attract
impurities in things
contain different chemicals some of them poisonous and/or carcinogenic.
Dean.
Dean Thomas wrote:
Hi Michael,
I'm sure I will be corrected if I am wrong but I seem to remember from
one of my other groups that charcoal would need to be converted to
activated carbon via super heated steam
free kit) while driving for this very reason, too many accidents happen
this way. The most stupid ones are people sending an S.M.S. while driving.
And yet on a regular basis I will see a police officer driving along
with a phone up to his/her ear.
How can people respect the law when it is
An excellent cause and an excellent idea. all the info on making
biodiesel you and I will ever need can be had at
http://journeytoforever.org/biodiesel.html
As to were to find the equipment required first learn from the reading
material how it is made and then use your imagination, it is
I have just finished collected the ingredients for my first batch of
biodiesel.
I have 2 Litres of Blended vegetable Oil, 1 Litre of Methanol (enough to
do a 5 litre batch)and a container of 98% granulated sodium hydroxide. I
was just about to mix the sodium Hydroxide with the methanol when
