On Mon, 24 Mar 2003 01:16 pm, Ken Provost wrote: > >Boil [remove water], filter, try to make fuel? > >I don't know, slop from a dumpster could have > >anything in it. > > I'd be most concerned about high levels of > saturated fats -- that's what usually inspires > ME to throw out the last of a barrel. The sat. > fats continue to settle in the barrel -- even- > tually you get an oil that would give a biodiesel > like butter :-) What I need is a good way to > utilize (or dispose of) THAT crap..... -K
wouldn't you be better off keeping the high grade stuff (e.g. initial waste oil) as you biodiesel feed stock and using the waste being discussed here in some sort of methane digestor to produce a nice high grade methane feedstock - e.g. for use to make methanol? I seem to recall something about using methane and a catalyst in air to make methanol and that it was a relatively easy process... curse my feeble memory... Zubrin was talking a lot about fuel making processes for Mars colonisation... -- Dr Paul van den Bergen Centre for Advanced Internet Architectures caia.swin.edu.au [EMAIL PROTECTED] IM:bulwynkl2002 It's a book. Non-volatile storage media. Everyone should have one. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Make Money Online Auctions! Make $500.00 or We Will Give You Thirty Dollars for Trying! http://us.click.yahoo.com/yMx78A/fNtFAA/46VHAA/FGYolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> 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/
