Re: [Biofuel] Water in my Methanol

2008-05-03 Thread Raymond Burns
Roger, You could try adding a drying agent to the drum to absorb the water (depends on how much leaked in though). I remember in chem lab in school in order to dry our solvent system when we were doing synthesis adding Sodium Sulfate which absorbed the water, but didn't dissolve in the organic

Re: [Biofuel] Water in my Methanol

2008-05-03 Thread Kurt Schasker
in the liquid state. Kurt Date: Fri, 2 May 2008 13:32:55 -0400 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org Subject: [Biofuel] Water in my Methanol Any suggestions? It looks like water got in my new 55-gal drum of Methanol. I keep it outside for obvious reasons but it looks

[Biofuel] Water in my Methanol

2008-05-02 Thread Roger
Any suggestions? It looks like water got in my new 55-gal drum of Methanol. I keep it outside for obvious reasons but it looks like water got in somehow. The only thought I had was to set up a distiller to heat up the mixture to 160°F and then cool the vapor into another vessel much like

Re: [Biofuel] Water in my Methanol

2008-05-02 Thread Ken Provost
On May 2, 2008, at 10:32 AM, Roger wrote: Any suggestions? It looks like water got in my new 55-gal drum of Methanol. I keep it outside for obvious reasons but it looks like water got in somehow. The only thought I had was to set up a distiller to heat up the mixture to 160°F and then