On Thu, 27 Mar 2003 12:06 am, Steve Spence wrote: > properly washed biodiesel has no appreciable amounts of alcohol left in it.
when I wrote: > > I have heard arguements that leaving the eexcess ehtanol in the BD does > > no harm (increases the calorific value of the fuel which also redresses > > the slight loss of performance of BD over dinodiesel). But it seems to > > me that > > it is more valuable as a feed stock and hence should be recovered by > > distillation before washing the biodiesel... has anyone had any joy or > > experience of this? I know washed BD has no alcohol. What I want to know is is it worth attempting to recover teh alcohol from both the unwashed biodiesel and the glycerine? Heck, you could do this _after_ reacting and _before_ settling to save double handling... -- 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 ---------------------~--> Your own Online Store Selling our Overstock. http://us.click.yahoo.com/rZll0B/4ftFAA/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/
