[biofuels-biz] India's cabinet approves tough emission norms

2002-01-11 Thread Keith Addison
http://www.planetark.org/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/13960/story.htm Planet Ark Environmental News: India's cabinet approves tough emission norms INDIA: January 9, 2002 NEW DELHI - India will impose tough emission norms that will require refiners to invest $7.25 billion in the next eight years,

[biofuels-biz] The Biodiesel King

2002-01-11 Thread Keith Addison
http://www.industryclick.com/magazinearticle.asp?magazineid=20release id=9765magazinearticleid=138111siteid=5 Soybean Digest The Biodiesel King by Sherry Collins Soybean Digest, Jan 1, 2002 Grant Goodman doesn't grow soybeans, doesn't haul them, doesn't eat them and he doesn't process them.

Re: [biofuels-biz] Mother Earth News Waste Oil Heater

2002-01-11 Thread David Teal
Had a good look at this with a view to burning glycerol (after recovering XS methanol). If anybody has actually built one of these, perhaps they will have some advice on how well it works..and on what fuel. Any temperature estimates? Combustion air is admitted via the pre-heating chamber

Re: [biofuels-biz] Mother Earth News Waste Oil Heater

2002-01-11 Thread Keith Addison
Keith, this is Wayne Denis from Edmonton Canada, well done on the photos. This answered alot of questions for me. Hi Wayne Good, I'm glad it helps. The originals are a bad photocopy, I managed to improve them quite a lot. Hope it's all clear enough now. Have you ventured into the

Re: [biofuels-biz] Mother Earth News Waste Oil Heater

2002-01-11 Thread Keith Addison
Had a good look at this with a view to burning glycerol (after recovering XS methanol). If anybody has actually built one of these, perhaps they will have some advice on how well it works..and on what fuel. Any temperature estimates? Combustion air is admitted via the pre-heating chamber

[biofuels-biz] Re: Fwd: biofuel locomotive

2002-01-11 Thread motie_d
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], martin.brook [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can somebody tell me how to make ethanol from wood please.Martin Brook. The short answer is, it can't be economically done on a homescale. The longer answer is to do it on a commercial scale, it depends again on the size of the

Ethanol from wood - was Re: [biofuels-biz] Fwd: biofuel locomotive

2002-01-11 Thread Keith Addison
Can somebody tell me how to make ethanol from wood please.Martin Brook. Cambridge. England Fuel From Sawdust -- by Mike Brown (from Acres, USA, 19 June 1983): Conversion of cellulose, such as sawdust, cornstalks, newspaper and other substances, to alcohol -- a fairly uncomplicated and

Re: [biofuel] WVO cogneration update...help!!!!!!

2002-01-11 Thread cpech
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2002-01-11 Thread Anthony Treasure
-Original Message- From: Christian [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2002 12:36 PM To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com Subject: [biofuel] Pressure I was thinking today (yes.. it«s an ability I sometimes have): Often chemical processes (specially polimerization) require

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2002-01-11 Thread Anthony Treasure
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2002 11:36 AM To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [biofuel] Re: Average BTU consumed Per Passenger mile by mode of travel Check out www.DipetaneUSA.com or www.Dipetane.com. Richard

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2002-01-11 Thread Anthony Treasure
-Original Message- From: motie_d [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2002 11:28 AM To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com Subject: [biofuel] Re: Average BTU consumed Per Passenger mile by mode of travel Is it difficult for Americans to construct more efficient cars? As of

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2002-01-11 Thread Anthony Treasure
-Original Message- From: motie_d [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2002 11:16 AM To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com Subject: [biofuel] Re: Glycol Craig Thanks Craig, but it's lactic acid, not ethanol. Now if we could find an easy way of converting glycol to

[biofuel] No washing, Solid Catalyst, etc

2002-01-11 Thread Keith Addison
The resulting ester, which contained considerable amounts of potassium soaps, was purified by passing the ester through a column filled with strongly acid, macroreticular ion exchange resin under waterfree conditions. This purification step removed most of the soaps as well as other

[biofuel] Correction to Recipe

2002-01-11 Thread Ken Provost
Livio: I reread my recipe in your reply, and I see a glaring error: For the ethoxide, dissolve 7g NaOH or 10g KOH in every liter of alcohol should read , per every liter of oil, dissolve 7g NaOH or 10g KOH in the ethanol. That'll work better :-). Yahoo! Groups

Re: [biofuel] No washing, Solid Catalyst, etc

2002-01-11 Thread r . p . kurz
Keith, are there any more details on this process? by the way you do a great job with this group. regards,roger kurz The resulting ester, which contained considerable amounts of potassium soaps, was purified by passing the ester through a column filled with strongly acid,

[biofuel] Re: Glycol

2002-01-11 Thread motie_d
Craig Thanks Craig, but it's lactic acid, not ethanol. Now if we could find an easy way of converting glycol to ethanol... Keith Addison Journey to Forever Handmade Projects Tokyo http://journeytoforever.org/ Sort of like an Alchemist dedicating his life to find how to convert

[biofuel] Re: Average BTU consumed Per Passenger mile by mode of travel

2002-01-11 Thread motie_d
Is it difficult for Americans to construct more efficient cars? As of 2001 - using only existing technologies and without harming safety or performance - the fuel economy of U.S. cars could be raised by 17% to 36% and by 27% to 47% for light trucks. Is this info being kept secret? I

Re: [biofuel] Re: Average BTU consumed Per Passenger mile by mode of travel

2002-01-11 Thread rmcphe8888
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Re: [biofuel] Correction to Recipe

2002-01-11 Thread Keith Addison
Ken Provost wrote: Livio: I reread my recipe in your reply, and I see a glaring error: For the ethoxide, dissolve 7g NaOH or 10g KOH in every liter of alcohol should read , per every liter of oil, dissolve 7g NaOH or 10g KOH in the ethanol. That'll work better :-). Hi Ken Did you

Re: [biofuel] Happy everything

2002-01-11 Thread Keith Addison
Joseph Martelle wrote: Hi there Joe Wonderful - a New Year daughter, or near as dammit. Hope all's exceeding well with her, with mum, and with your good self. Keith, Thank you, all is well with everyone here. Hope the same for you and Midori. Yes thankyou, all's very well. I have

[biofuel] Pressure

2002-01-11 Thread Christian
I was thinking today (yes.. it«s an ability I sometimes have): Often chemical processes (specially polimerization) require high pressures. High pressure speeds up or even allows many reactions often not attainable at normal 1 atm. If I don«t recall badly, the inventors of Polartec (TM)

Re: [biofuel] No washing, Solid Catalyst, etc

2002-01-11 Thread Keith Addison
Keith, are there any more details on this process? by the way you do a great job with this group. regards,roger kurz Why thankyou Roger! :-) You'll find the full report here (pdf, 1.2Mb - bloatware, hmph): http://www.biodiesel.org/cgi-local/search.cgi?action=view_reportid=GEN-296

[biofuel] Fox/Ginosar

2002-01-11 Thread David E. Cruse
Hi Keith,Dana,and Everyone, I'm going to send one page per e-mail, and I'm not going to send Claims, Prior Art,or the Abstract, as I see no real reason to waste effort on these things, so lets begin ! #1Summary

Re: [biofuel] Biodiesel

2002-01-11 Thread Paul Gobert
- Original Message - From: Martin Rogac [EMAIL PROTECTED] Can anyone answer these questions please How much Glycerine% is produced from WVO, how / why does this % vary? Martin, The glycerine yield is approximately the same volume as the methoxide used. A little less because the