[Biofuel] glycerine

2007-08-25 Thread Christopher Tan
Hi to everyone: Anyone in the Philippines interested in about a ton of glycerine cocktail. Just haul it away and it's yours. I'm in Bulacan. Best, Chris ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org

Re: [Biofuel] Glycerine Settling Time

2007-08-13 Thread Keith Addison
it and embarking on the second stage/polishing step or whatever? I'll put the rest of my message back, below. Please see my reply to Tom: http://tinyurl.com/3ccqhwhttp://tinyurl.com/3ccqhw [Biofuel] Glycerine Settling Time Best Keith Hi Joe Tom; It makes sense. Glycerin is an emulsifier. Have

Re: [Biofuel] Glycerine Settling Time

2007-08-10 Thread Thomas Kelly
Hello to All, This is an attempt to get things in focus for myself at least. I think this topic started with Re:Biodiesel Quality Test On 8/7/07 Mike W. stated that he allows his batches to settle for a week before washing; No problems with wash. On 8/7/07 I agreed, stated an

Re: [Biofuel] Glycerine Settling Time

2007-08-10 Thread Thomas Kelly
measurements and everything. Tom - Original Message - From: Joe Street To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org Sent: Friday, August 10, 2007 9:45 AM Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Glycerine Settling Time Hi Jan; Ok your post agrees with what Andres

Re: [Biofuel] Glycerine Settling Time

2007-08-10 Thread Joe Street
Message - *From:* Joe Street mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *To:* biofuel@sustainablelists.org mailto:biofuel@sustainablelists.org *Sent:* Friday, August 10, 2007 3:45 PM *Subject:* Re: [Biofuel] Glycerine Settling Time Hi Jan; Ok your post agrees with what Andres said. So

Re: [Biofuel] Glycerine Settling Time

2007-08-10 Thread Thomas Kelly
- From: Keith Addison [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org Sent: Friday, August 10, 2007 3:53 AM Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Glycerine Settling Time Hi Tom Hi Keith, Then if you do one-litre test batches first, especially with iffy batches of oil, Ops. I took Joe's

Re: [Biofuel] Glycerine Settling Time

2007-08-10 Thread Keith Addison
/3ccqhw [Biofuel] Glycerine Settling Time Best Keith Hi Joe Tom; It makes sense. Glycerin is an emulsifier. Have you ever tried dosing the batch again with a little methoxide? After you remove the glycerin it doesn't take much to get the last bit of the reaction to go and settle out

Re: [Biofuel] Glycerine Settling Time

2007-08-10 Thread Keith Addison
Tom - Original Message - From: Keith Addison [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2007 3:36 PM Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Glycerine Settling Time Hi Joe Tom; It makes sense. Glycerin is an emulsifier. Have you ever tried

Re: [Biofuel] Glycerine Settling Time

2007-08-10 Thread Keith Addison
: Friday, August 10, 2007 3:53 AM Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Glycerine Settling Time Hi Tom Hi Keith, Then if you do one-litre test batches first, especially with iffy batches of oil, Ops. I took Joe's point to be: If you have to re-process it is possible to use info from

Re: [Biofuel] Glycerine Settling Time

2007-08-10 Thread Jan Warnqvist
Sent: Friday, August 10, 2007 9:53 AM Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Glycerine Settling Time Hi Tom Hi Keith, Then if you do one-litre test batches first, especially with iffy batches of oil, Ops. I took Joe's point to be: If you have to re-process it is possible to use info from the QT

Re: [Biofuel] Glycerine Settling Time

2007-08-10 Thread Keith Addison
: [Biofuel] Glycerine Settling Time Joe, For the sake of precise concepts, gliceryn is NOT an emulsifier. Emulsifiers contains a clear lipofilic and hidrofilic zones in the molecule. Which is an emulsifier is the partially reacted mono or di-glicerides, but in a crystal clear liquid

Re: [Biofuel] Glycerine Settling Time

2007-08-10 Thread Joe Street
the glycerin settle before draining it and embarking on the second stage/polishing step or whatever? I'll put the rest of my message back, below. Please see my reply to Tom: http://tinyurl.com/3ccqhw [Biofuel] Glycerine Settling Time Best Keith Hi Joe Tom; It makes sense. Glycerin

Re: [Biofuel] Glycerine Settling Time

2007-08-10 Thread Joe Street
Hi Keith; See my answers below. Keith Addison wrote: Well, settling time is free. Acid-base aside, there's the two-stage base-base process, which quite a lot of people use and like, but otherwise why do more than one stage? Do you mean two separate stages, with a methanol test in

Re: [Biofuel] Glycerine Settling Time

2007-08-10 Thread Andres Secco
Message - From: Joe Street To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org Sent: Friday, August 10, 2007 9:45 AM Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Glycerine Settling Time Hi Jan; Ok your post agrees with what Andres said. So how do we explain Tom's experiment then? To recap (Tom correct me if I miss

Re: [Biofuel] Glycerine Settling Time

2007-08-10 Thread Jan Warnqvist
into a fat phanse and an aquaeus phase, possibly with the salts in the bottom.' Best regards Jan - Original Message - From: Joe Street To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org Sent: Friday, August 10, 2007 3:45 PM Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Glycerine Settling Time Hi Jan; Ok your post

Re: [Biofuel] Glycerine Settling Time

2007-08-10 Thread Joe Street
small amounts of these are sufficient to create stable emulsions. Would somebody agree with me on that ? Jan Warnqvist - Original Message - From: Keith Addison [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org Sent: Friday, August 10, 2007 9:53 AM Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Glycerine

[Biofuel] Glycerine Settling Time

2007-08-09 Thread Thomas Kelly
Joe, I took a sample from my latest batch of BD destined for my boiler (failed QT; but very little residue dropped out). It had settled for almost 10 hrs. That was yesterday morning. Today there is a small, but noticable, bit of glycerine on the bottom. More settled out after the

Re: [Biofuel] Glycerine Settling Time

2007-08-09 Thread Joe Street
Tom; It makes sense. Glycerin is an emulsifier. Have you ever tried dosing the batch again with a little methoxide? After you remove the glycerin it doesn't take much to get the last bit of the reaction to go and settle out the remaining glycerin. Of course this is well known already.

Re: [Biofuel] Glycerine Settling Time

2007-08-09 Thread Thomas Kelly
primitive) single stage base method. Big Lunch, Tom - Original Message - From: Joe Street To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2007 11:30 AM Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Glycerine Settling Time Tom; It makes sense. Glycerin is an emulsifier. Have

Re: [Biofuel] Glycerine Settling Time

2007-08-09 Thread Andres Secco
1:10 PM Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Glycerine Settling Time Joe, You wrote: Have you ever tried dosing the batch again with a little methoxide? After you remove the glycerin it doesn't take much to get the last bit of the reaction to go and settle out the remaining glycerin

Re: [Biofuel] Glycerine Settling Time

2007-08-09 Thread Joe Street
See below Thomas Kelly wrote: Joe, You wrote: Have you ever tried dosing the batch again with a little methoxide? After you remove the glycerin it doesn't take much to get the last bit of the reaction to go and settle out the remaining glycerin. I've been concerned about the

Re: [Biofuel] Glycerine Settling Time

2007-08-09 Thread Andres Secco
. Glycerin is dissolved in the BD and separates from the liquid BD phase with time. - Original Message - From: Joe Street To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2007 11:30 AM Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Glycerine Settling Time Tom; It makes sense. Glycerin

Re: [Biofuel] Glycerine Settling Time

2007-08-09 Thread Thomas Kelly
Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Glycerine Settling Time Joe, For the sake of precise concepts, gliceryn is NOT an emulsifier. Emulsifiers contains a clear lipofilic and hidrofilic zones in the molecule. Which is an emulsifier is the partially reacted mono or di-glicerides, but in a crystal clear liquid

Re: [Biofuel] Glycerine Settling Time

2007-08-09 Thread Joe Street
and separates from the liquid BD phase with time. - Original Message - *From:* Joe Street mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *To:* biofuel@sustainablelists.org mailto:biofuel@sustainablelists.org *Sent:* Thursday, August 09, 2007 11:30 AM *Subject:* Re: [Biofuel] Glycerine Settling

Re: [Biofuel] Glycerine Settling Time

2007-08-09 Thread Keith Addison
Hi Joe Tom; It makes sense. Glycerin is an emulsifier. Have you ever tried dosing the batch again with a little methoxide? After you remove the glycerin it doesn't take much to get the last bit of the reaction to go and settle out the remaining glycerin. Of course this is well known

Re: [Biofuel] Glycerine Settling Time

2007-08-09 Thread Thomas Kelly
? Tom - Original Message - From: Andres Secco To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2007 1:55 PM Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Glycerine Settling Time Joe, For the sake of precise concepts, gliceryn

Re: [Biofuel] Glycerine Settling Time

2007-08-09 Thread Joe Street
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *To:* biofuel@sustainablelists.org mailto:biofuel@sustainablelists.org *Sent:* Thursday, August 09, 2007 1:55 PM *Subject:* Re: [Biofuel] Glycerine Settling Time Joe, For the sake of precise concepts, gliceryn is NOT an emulsifier. Emulsifiers

Re: [Biofuel] Glycerine Settling Time

2007-08-09 Thread Thomas Kelly
:58 PM Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Glycerine Settling Time Kewl Tom; You are ans experimentalist like myself. How much oil/ water and how many drops of glycerol did it take to create the emulsion? Joe Thomas Kelly wrote: Andres, Emulsifiers contains a clear lipofilic

Re: [Biofuel] Glycerine Settling Time

2007-08-09 Thread Thomas Kelly
Tom - Original Message - From: Keith Addison [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2007 3:36 PM Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Glycerine Settling Time Hi Joe Tom; It makes sense. Glycerin is an emulsifier. Have you ever tried dosing the batch

Re: [Biofuel] glycerine layer

2006-08-14 Thread Tonomár András
- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Biofuel@sustainablelists.org Sent: Friday, August 11, 2006 4:46 PM Subject: [Biofuel] glycerine layer I am about to advance to a 30 gallon reactor. All during my one and 15 liter educational phases, my glycerin layer has always resulted

[Biofuel] glycerine layer

2006-08-11 Thread RicAlls
I am about to advance to a 30 gallon reactor. All during my one and 15 liter educational phases, my glycerin layer has always resulted in a semi solid jelly but the fuel always washes beautifully in four washes to a crystal clear dark gold amber after drying. My current yield to 800 ml of fuel for

Re: [Biofuel] glycerine uses and other fancy stuff.

2006-04-01 Thread Keith Addison
You mean I can't just do like Google? No wonder I'm not having any luck! No substitute for tunnel vision, eh? :-) Google's quite a good substitute for tunnel vision. LOL! Google and the list archives both use a simple search, though Google does some other things with it too, but the big

Re: [Biofuel] glycerine uses and other fancy stuff.

2006-04-01 Thread Thomas Kelly
oes. Tom - Original Message - From: greg Kelly To: Biofuel@sustainablelists.org Sent: Friday, March 31, 2006 10:48 AM Subject: [Biofuel] glycerine uses and other fancy stuff. You mean I can't just do like Google? No wonder I'm not having any luck! No

Re: [Biofuel] Glycerine use and other fancy stuff

2006-03-31 Thread Joe Street
Hey Greg ; If I run my reactor (which has a 1500 watt element but is a 220 volt unit running on 110v) I am consuming 350 watts and current wisdom says to allow 1 hr or more for the reaction so that's 350 Wh of energy used. If I use a 300 watt US generator and the reaction completes in 10

Re: [Biofuel] Glycerine use and other fancy stuff

2006-03-31 Thread Tonomár András
3:49 PM Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Glycerine use and other fancy stuff Hey Greg ; If I run my reactor (which has a 1500 watt element but is a 220 volt unit running on 110v) I am consuming 350 watts and current wisdom says to allow 1 hr or more for the reaction so that's 350 Wh of energy used

[Biofuel] glycerine uses and other fancy stuff.

2006-03-31 Thread greg Kelly
You mean I can't just do like Google? No wonder I'm not having any luck! No substitute for tunnel vision, eh? It just seems like a waste to simply flush anything that may have a use. Is anybody willing to talk about the ammonia process to make the mulch additive? Greg

Re: [Biofuel] Glycerine use and other fancy stuff

2006-03-31 Thread Joe Street
if separation was compete in 1 hour vs. 24 hours Keep going Andrew - Original Message - From: "Joe Street" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Biofuel@sustainablelists.org Sent: Friday, March 31, 2006 3:49 PM Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Glycerine use and other fancy stuff Hey Greg ; I

Re: [Biofuel] Glycerine use and other fancy stuff

2006-03-31 Thread Mike McGinness
t: Friday, March 31, 2006 3:49 PM Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Glycerine use and other fancy stuff Hey Greg ; If I run my reactor (which has a 1500 watt element but is a 220 volt unit running on 110v) I am consuming 350 watts and current wisdom says to allow 1 hr or more for the reaction so that's

[Biofuel] Glycerine use and other fancy stuff

2006-03-30 Thread greg Kelly
I am very interested in finding a use for the glycerine made by the reaction. I don't need that much soap and the local companies I have called have not been interested. The idea of using ammonia to make potassium and ammonium phosphate. I am having a time getting a handle on the searches in the

Re: [Biofuel] Glycerine use and other fancy stuff

2006-03-30 Thread Keith Addison
Hello Greg I am very interested in finding a use for the glycerine made by the reaction. Have you looked at this? http://journeytoforever.org/biodiesel_glycerin.html Glycerine I don't need that much soap and the local companies I have called have not been interested. The idea of using ammonia

[Biofuel] glycerine uses..was Disposal of glycerine...

2005-11-27 Thread Alt.EnergyNetwork
Hello Michael, I don't know what quantities you are going to be dealing with but glycerine has thousands of uses from a food and candy ingredient, soaps, hand and skin lotions, explosives etc. If you can't use all your production, you may want to sell it locally as it really shouldn't be thrown

[Biofuel] glycerine ?

2005-07-15 Thread alex burton
Hello All I have a question about glycerine. what is the effect if after i have made biodiesel and let it settel in the prossesor but there is still a small amout of glycerine left in the prossesor after i have drained it and then make another batch will the glycerine that is left in the prossesor

Re: [Biofuel] glycerine ?

2005-07-15 Thread Jan Warnqvist
PROTECTED] + 46 554 201 89+46 70 499 38 45 - Original Message - From: alex burton To: Biofuel@sustainablelists.org Sent: Friday, July 15, 2005 10:07 AM Subject: [Biofuel] glycerine ? Hello All I have a question about glycerine. what is the effect if after i have

Re: [Biofuel] glycerine ?

2005-07-15 Thread Appal Energy
It will change the equation equilibrium slightly. Don't know if anyone has done any analysis as to how much, theoretically or in reality. Depends on how much is re-included in your next reaction. You should have your processor set up to drain completely, or within a few fluid ounces or so.

Re: [Biofuel] Glycerine as fuel

2005-06-06 Thread Quimica Nova SA
: Re: [Biofuel] Glycerine as fuel Hello Bill. If the purpose of gasification is only providing thermal energy for the chicken house with the disposal of chicken manure (and glycerine) as added bonus, the biomass couldbe gasifiedwith a simple updraftgasifier, This will certainly

Re: [Biofuel] Glycerine as fuel

2005-06-06 Thread Balaji
Hello Marcelino, - Original Message - From: Quimica Nova SA To: Biofuel@sustainablelists.org Sent: Monday, June 06, 2005 5:38 PM Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Glycerine as fuel Hello Balaji, Hello Bill, in spite of having a large supply of natural gas

Re: [Biofuel] Glycerine as fuel

2005-06-05 Thread Balaji
content which need to be tackled first. Regards. balaji - Original Message - From: Bill Clark To: Biofuel@sustainablelists.org Sent: Sunday, June 05, 2005 4:06 AM Subject: [Biofuel] Glycerine as fuel Hi to all, Yesterday I visited a small wood veneer

[Biofuel] Glycerine as fuel

2005-06-04 Thread Bill Clark
Hi to all, Yesterday I visited a small wood veneer operation using a wood gasification unit to produce steam which heats the veneer driers. They had previously been using LPG as a fuel source. The increase in the price of LPG was threatening to put them out of business. With the help of a

Re: [Biofuel] Glycerine as fuel

2005-06-04 Thread Appal Energy
Bill, One would imagine that a gasifier would reduce all components of the glyc cocktail to syn gas and char. Gasification is a novel thought to reducing that waste/co-product to nill though. No addition of anything. No chemical refining. No new energy inputs. No disposal problem with the

Re: [Biofuel] Glycerine as fuel

2005-06-04 Thread R Del Bueno
Any concerns to possible toxic emissions...as with the concern of some SVOers? I have heard that some nasty toxins are produced by the burning of crude glycerin..although I have no data on it. Perhaps it is temperature (of combustion) related..and hence not an issue with a gasifier? At 10:13

Re: [Biofuel] Glycerine as fuel

2005-06-04 Thread Appal Energy
Acrolein is a co-/by-product of incomplete combustion of glycerol. One would think that at ~2,000* F (the Wood Gun) the combustion process would be complete. Todd Swearingen R Del Bueno wrote: Any concerns to possible toxic emissions...as with the concern of some SVOers? I have heard that

Re: [Biofuel] Glycerine as fuel

2005-06-04 Thread Bill Clark
Sorry, error in my last post. ...I am running a wvo to biodiesel project for the City of Eufaula, AL. I produce about 600 gal. of biodiesel per week ... Should read "... I am running a biodiesel project for the City of Eufaula. I can produce about 600 gal. of biodiesel per week..." Sorry

Re: [Biofuel] Glycerine as fuel

2005-06-04 Thread Bill Clark
Thanks Todd, That was extremely helpful. Bill - Original Message - From: Appal Energy [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Biofuel@sustainablelists.org Sent: Saturday, June 04, 2005 9:13 PM Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Glycerine as fuel Bill, One would imagine that a gasifier would reduce all components

[Biofuel] glycerine soap making

2005-02-15 Thread Jeremy Tracy Longworth
For those who use a lower % of (c.o.) in your recipe, Castor oil can be used to increase your bubble action. Tracy AntiFossil wrote I have been making my own soap for about 14 years now. The only real secret that I have found in regards to fantastic foaming action of your soaps is the

[Biofuel] Glycerine soap making

2005-02-14 Thread Legal Eagle
the 15% :-) Luc ___ Biofuel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wwia.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/biofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel archives at Infoarchive.net (searchable):

Re: [Biofuel] Glycerine soap making

2005-02-13 Thread Andrew Cunningham
Let me just make sure I had all the details first, since some things were left unsaid and require assumptions. If I read what you are saying correctly, I agree with Keith on this one and it doesn't appear viable. 1)You make BioD with the Lye/methanol method 2)Separate out the BioD from the

Re: [Biofuel] Glycerine soap making

2005-02-12 Thread Pieter Koole
, Pieter Koole Netherlands. - Original Message - From: Legal Eagle [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 11, 2005 7:08 PM Subject: [Biofuel] Glycerine soap making What to do with the copious amounts of glycerine by product ? We can follow through with the seperation

Re: [Biofuel] Glycerine soap making

2005-02-12 Thread Anti-Fossil
, 2005 12:21 PM Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Glycerine soap making Dear Legal Eagle, There is an industrial and commercial method of using refined glycerin for the manufacturing of natural soaps and detergents (and the harsher soaps too). As JFT advocates, there is a personal quest too - making

Re: [Biofuel] Glycerine soap making

2005-02-12 Thread Legal Eagle
becomes of it once it has cured for awhile. Luc - Original Message - From: Anti-Fossil [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 11, 2005 9:52 PM Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Glycerine soap making I have been making my own soap for about 14 years now. The only real

Re: [Biofuel] Glycerine soap making

2005-02-12 Thread Legal Eagle
- From: Pieter Koole [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 11, 2005 3:05 PM Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Glycerine soap making Hi, Thanks for writing some about making soap from the glycerin by-product. You write about 10 grams (or more) of NaOH per liter of glyc. How or what

Re: [Biofuel] Glycerine soap making

2005-02-12 Thread Legal Eagle
Luc - Original Message - From: Legal Eagle [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, February 12, 2005 6:36 AM Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Glycerine soap making G'day Pieter; What I am doing here is experimenting in an attempt to make the by product useful to me. Best

Re: [Biofuel] Glycerine soap making

2005-02-12 Thread Kim Garth Travis
oils like olive, and settle for less foaming soap. AntiFossil Mike Krafka USA - Original Message - From: Phillip Wolfe [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 11, 2005 12:21 PM Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Glycerine soap making Dear Legal Eagle, There is an industrial

Re: [Biofuel] Glycerine soap making

2005-02-12 Thread Greg Harbican
I like using avocado oil my self. Menthol makes a nice addition to bathroom soap.It is really nice to shave with. Greg H. - Original Message - From: Kim Garth Travis [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, February 12, 2005 09:13 Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Glycerine

[Biofuel] Glycerine soap making

2005-02-11 Thread Legal Eagle
through with the seperation of the components an get a close to pure glycerine, providing we have a market for it, or we can use it to make soap. JtF has a few good articles on that too. http://journeytoforever.org/biodiesel_glycerin.html I am in the process of experiementing with a couple

Re: [Biofuel] Glycerine soap making

2005-02-11 Thread Phillip Wolfe
Dear Legal Eagle, There is an industrial and commercial method of using refined glycerin for the manufacturing of natural soaps and detergents (and the harsher soaps too). As JFT advocates, there is a personal quest too - making your own stuff. In the industrial and commercial world there is a

Re: [Biofuel] Glycerine soap making

2005-02-11 Thread Keith Addison
As you know I'm a bit sceptical but do not seek to discourage! I'm most interested to see what you achieve. What to do with the copious amounts of glycerine by product ? We can follow through with the seperation of the components an get a close to pure glycerine, providing we have a market

Re: [Biofuel] Glycerine soap making

2005-02-11 Thread Michael Redler
, This one's on-topic. Maybe I'll stop buying soap this summer :-) Mike Legal Eagle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Legal Eagle To: Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 13:08:24 -0500 CC: Subject: [Biofuel] Glycerine soap making What to do with the copious amounts of glycerine by product ? We can follow

Re: [Biofuel] Glycerine soap making

2005-02-11 Thread Legal Eagle
- Original Message - From: Michael Redler [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 11, 2005 2:16 PM Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Glycerine soap making Hi Luc and everyone, I forwarded your email to my girlfriend. I thought she might have something to say about all

[biofuel] Glycerine Separation

2004-04-30 Thread Tan
Hi! Can anyone describe the color of the glycerine-methanol layer after treatment with phosphoric acid? According to JTF, it's sherry colored. Could you elaborate more? Is that dark sherry or yellow sherry? Thanks, Chris [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Biofuel at

Re: [biofuel] glycerine distillation

2003-10-31 Thread Appal Energy
loads. I think I'd rather see it go towards the manufacture of natural urethanes than as sweetener for carmeled soda water. Todd Swearingen - Original Message - From: Ken Provost [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2003 9:35 PM Subject: Re: [biofuel

Re: [biofuel] glycerine distillation

2003-10-31 Thread Keith Addison
PROTECTED] To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2003 1:39 PM Subject: [biofuel] glycerine distillation Todd, do you think a thin film evaporator could be used to distill the glycerine? I just did some research of my own, and it looks like would have to keep the glycerine below

[biofuel] glycerine distillation

2003-10-30 Thread Martin Klingensmith
Todd, do you think a thin film evaporator could be used to distill the glycerine? I just did some research of my own, and it looks like would have to keep the glycerine below the flash point (176C) which means you'd need a vacuum of about 15mmHg (that's a pretty strong vacuum I assume) Would

Re: [biofuel] glycerine distillation

2003-10-30 Thread Appal Energy
: [biofuel] glycerine distillation Todd, do you think a thin film evaporator could be used to distill the glycerine? I just did some research of my own, and it looks like would have to keep the glycerine below the flash point (176C) which means you'd need a vacuum of about 15mmHg (that's a pretty strong

Re: [biofuel] glycerine distillation

2003-10-30 Thread Ken Provost
on 10/30/03 5:36 PM, Appal Energy at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And even when all things are said and done? The cost of testing and insuring (liability) that the recovered product is food or cosmetic grade is one of the higher costs in the entire process. Tech grade is a much less involved

Re: [biofuel] Glycerine

2003-06-28 Thread pan ruti
Helow Greg and April Surely it will produce biogas, but you need to be careful about salts, acids alchol contenet within correct limit together with C/N ratio.there are good experimental work work about the use of fatty oil in biodigestion , all metabolized via glicerol.But you also need

[biofuel] Glycerine

2003-06-27 Thread Greg and April
Does anyone know what would happen to Glycerine, if added to a methane digester? Would it gum up the works, or would it digest ? Greg H. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor -~-- Get A Free Psychic Reading! Your Online Answer To Life's Important Questions.

[biofuel] glycerine

2003-06-09 Thread Pieter Koole
Can anyone tell me how I can purify the glycerin by product from making biodiesel ? Met vriendelijke groeten, Pieter Koole [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Sponsor -~-- Get A Free Psychic Reading! Your Online

Re: [biofuel] glycerine

2003-06-09 Thread Keith Addison
Can anyone tell me how I can purify the glycerin by product from making biodiesel ? Met vriendelijke groeten, Pieter Koole Dag Pieter It's not really a glycerin by-product, it's a variable mixture of glycerine, soaps, excess methanol, and the catalyst (lye):

RE: [biofuel] glycerine

2003-01-18 Thread Crabb, David
If you burn straight VO , are you releasing acrolein? Is it better to deal with the nastiness of this vs the nastiness of using Methanol to convert to Biodiesel.? what about if there is a cat converter? thanks Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html

Re: re [biofuel] glycerine

2003-01-18 Thread Steve Spence
[biofuel] glycerine If you burn straight VO , are you releasing acrolein? Is it better to deal with the nastiness of this vs the nastiness of using Methanol to convert to Biodiesel.? what about if there is a cat converter? thanks Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http

[biofuel] glycerine

2002-09-24 Thread William Clark
Question: Does anyone know the wt./gal for crude glycerine? Thanks, Bill C. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Sponsor -~-- Plan to Sell a Home? http://us.click.yahoo.com/J2SnNA/y.lEAA/MVfIAA/FGYolB/TM

Fwd: Glycerin Fermentation Retraction was Re: [biofuel] glycerine use

2002-05-31 Thread doosjp
) ethyl alcohol and butyric acid are mainly formed. Todd Swearingen - Original Message - From: Appal Energy [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2002 10:04 PM Subject: Re: [biofuel] glycerine use Here's a little food for thought for all those micro-biologists

Re: [biofuel] glycerine use

2002-05-30 Thread Ken Provost
Paddy at Goat writes: As with a lot of info on the net, there seems to be a lot of contradictions. Glycerin has been said to be a valuable biproduct, but retails at £750.00 per tonne (GBP) ex Albion chemicals, UK, which is not that fantastic for the producer. Other possibilities discussed have

Re: [biofuel] glycerine use

2002-05-30 Thread Christopher Price
What does glycerine biodegrade into? From: Ken Provost [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [biofuel] glycerine use Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 11:53:48 -0700 Paddy at Goat writes: As with a lot of info on the net, there seems to be a lot

Re: [biofuel] glycerine biodegradilibility

2002-05-30 Thread Ken Provost
Christopher Price asks: What does glycerine biodegrade into? Don't know the intermediates, but the endproducts would be CO2 and H20: 2 C3H8O3 + 7 O2 --- 6 CO2 + 8 H2O Yahoo! Groups Sponsor -~-- Buy Stock for $4 and no minimums. FREE Money 2002.

Re: [biofuel] glycerine use

2002-05-30 Thread Appal Energy
: Re: [biofuel] glycerine use Paddy at Goat writes: As with a lot of info on the net, there seems to be a lot of contradictions. Glycerin has been said to be a valuable biproduct, but retails at £750.00 per tonne (GBP) ex Albion chemicals, UK, which is not that fantastic for the producer. Other

Re: [biofuel] glycerine use

2002-05-30 Thread studio53
Subject: Re: [biofuel] glycerine use Here's a little food for thought for all those micro-biologists in the biodiesel world. The glycerin fraction (true glycerin) recovered from the glycerin layer of a transesterification process which has been submitted to catalyst neutralization and FFA

Re: [biofuel] glycerine use

2002-05-30 Thread Appal Energy
Does such a suggestion mean that you're not seeking any type of residency at your local intentional community? :-\ Bread not Bombs. Todd - Original Message - From: Ken [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2002 11:32 PM Subject: Re: [biofuel] glycerine

Re: [biofuel] glycerine use

2002-05-30 Thread Ken
Anyone know of any government agency that might want to buy all that glycerine. - make into bombs and stuff. add nitric acid to glycerine and shake like crazy. =D Don't do if with your hand ofcourse. Make something like what the bomb squad use to get rid of bombs.

Re: [biofuel] glycerine use

2002-05-30 Thread Appal Energy
What does prime with sugar mean? Add a small amount of table sugar to get the yeasty beasties to start digesting. Todd Swearingen - Original Message - From: studio53 [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2002 10:14 PM Subject: Re: [biofuel] glycerine

Re: [biofuel] Glycerine pretreat

2002-02-22 Thread Paul Gobert
- Original Message - From: t_watchornnz [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2002 6:03 PM Subject: [biofuel] Glycerine pretreat t, haven't progressed very far with my investigation of this. I did try mixing 1 litre of glycerine with 1 litre

RE: [biofuel] Glycerine pretreat

2002-02-22 Thread Anton Berteaux
what i would like to know is how to figure out how much methoxide to treat the glyc pretreated oil... anton -Original Message- From: Paul Gobert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 22, 2002 1:10 AM To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [biofuel] Glycerine pretreat

[biofuel] Glycerine pretreat

2002-02-21 Thread t_watchornnz
Back in December there was some talk on this subject by Paul Gobert and others. The subject being to use glycerine which still has some methanol and NAOH content to pre-treat oil used for bio-diesel. Has anyone done further experiments? I would like to give it a go. I did try mixing 1 litre

[biofuel] Glycerine dried flowers

2002-02-18 Thread t_watchornnz
Hi Is any body out there using thier Bio-D glycerine in the process used for pre-treating leaves and flowers when drying? If so, what ratio are you mixing it with water? Are you treating it in any other way? regards Trev Yahoo! Groups Sponsor

Re: [biofuel] Glycerine pretreat

2001-12-13 Thread Paul Gobert
- Original Message - From: craig reece [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2001 11:10 AM Subject: [biofuel] Glycerine pretreat (was Why people like SUVs Paul, Just a suggestion - change the subject line. What you posted - the (valuable

Re: [biofuel] Glycerine pretreat

2001-12-13 Thread craig reece
Paul, My pleasure. Craig You wrote: Thanks Craig, bit of a slip up on my part, out of practise I guess, haven't posted anything for a while. Also forgot to include that the BD made from the WCSO I used for pretreat test usually has an SG of around 0.8850. This will give an indication of

[biofuel] Glycerine pretreat (was Why people like SUVs

2001-12-12 Thread craig reece
Paul, Just a suggestion - change the subject line. What you posted - the (valuable) results of your glycerin experiments - had nothing to do with Why People Like SUVs. For those of us that are on multiple Yahoo groups, deciding which threads to read and which to discard without reading is made

[biofuel] Glycerine distillation

2001-12-03 Thread milliontc
G'day Group I'm looking into the possibility of applying concentrated solar energy for Glycerine distillation and it would be useful to know figures on energy requirement. I don't know exactly what the parameters are but I imagine something like the amount of energy required to raise 1 litre

Re: [biofuel] glycerine as a fuel.....

2001-06-01 Thread Paul Gobert
- Original Message - From: Jan Sur—wka [EMAIL PROTECTED] Information for Paul, Maybe instead of bothering with glycerine as fuel one could use it as a...fertilizer . I have heard that glycerine after diluting with water can be used a soil nutrient jan [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[biofuel] glycerine as a fuel.....

2001-05-31 Thread Jan Sur—wka
Information for Paul, Maybe instead of bothering with glycerine as fuel one could use it as a...fertilizer . I have heard that glycerine after diluting with water can be used a soil nutrient jan [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ems-energy.pl Biofuel at Journey to Forever:

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