Joe, Jason,
Don't over look yet another great advantage of the Venturi.
I am getting ready to start a new batch of oil for the acid base method
I know I will need to get 80 ml per liters of methanol mixed with it
before I have to add Acid. So before heating it (USE DRY OIL) I hook
the Venturi
Hi Jason
I may inadvertently have done this already. My system is a vacuum type
reactor. I regularly see cavitation in the mixing pump as I dry oil or
fuel as I have it running early on during the drying process. During a
process, I use a small amount (5") of vacuum to draw the methoxide into
I dont know if you saw my post on the use of venturis in Biodiesel but
if you didn't it would be worth a review. Just the use of a venturi
enhances the mix rate exponentialy. and is cheap and simple.
Jim
Jason & Katie wrote:
>as one has seen over time, i save emails that i find interesting, a
as one has seen over time, i save emails that i find interesting, and once
in a while i get the brilliant flash to put some of the contained ideas
together.
the properties of cavitiation include:
1) agitation
2) heat
3) vaporization resulting in larger active surface area
could we use these pr
Hmmm interesting. I can easily send my recirculation pump into
cavitation with a few inches of vacuum when there is methanol in the
mixture. All I would need to do is add a refluxing column to the
reactor to make sure the alcohol stays in there. Maybe this is an
easier route to investigate t
Hey- that looks very interesting; it is a kind of
reactor that I've seen in some chemistry labs. One
word of caution for anyone trying to build this at
home: that looks like a high-pressure rig at the left
end. Mess up with something like that and you can
seriously injure yourself. I wish the si
Are any of you familiar with this?
It looks very interesting.
I would think that it could be built using an old centrifical pump housing
with some modification.
http://www.advancedbiofuel.net/
The mothership site has a video of the inside of the machine.
http://www.hydrodynamics.com/index.htm
