Hi all. I ran some lab tests on my BD (from M. Pelly«s recipe), including IR spectrometry, Flash point, Pour point, Cloud point, Density, Viscosity, Residual Carbon and free water & sediment.
My findings showed quite a good BD, except for the water. ASTM requires 0,05 % vol max of water. I bubble washed my BD, following the Univ. of Idaho«s method, and it seems that my level of fre water whent up to a value of roughly 0.2% (4 times more than required by ASTM). I will further treat the BD with anhydrous CaCl2 (calcium chloride), though the lab technician also suggested I should use a saturated solution of sodium chloride (tablesalt... i.e., brine) to wash the BD. He said that this would reduce the presence of water in the washed BD. The point is: take care with the bubble washes and water washes in general. Maybe I was just unlucky, but you should try to check the content of water in your BD as the presence of it could be harmful to the motor. I«ve heard some people use pure methanol directly to get a BD pure enough to use without washing... (I don«t know how good this might be). My BD was very transparent. Even more crystaline than diesel fuel bought from my near by gas station. Comments welcome. Regards, Christian [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send "unsubscribe" messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
