On Tue, 1 Apr 2003 11:08 pm, itsmesrd wrote: > Has anybody pressed the oil from grain seed for biodiesel and then > used the cake for ethanol production? Seems that it could then be fed > to livestock as a portion of the feed program. This would not only > give you two kinds of fuel but also soap to wash with and pork chops > for the table.
I wondered about this... I know to make beer you need to germinate teh seed to start converting the starch into malt so that the yeast can breqak down the sugars (yeasts will consume single sugars, fructose and glucose, and can break down di-glycerides like malt and sucrose, but anything bigger they cannot handle (and isomered sugars are also difficult - thus iso malt as a diabetic sugar, etc)) so the way to do it would be to germinate the oil seed, crush and press and wash for the oil, return the wash to the batch and ferment, then press for the remaining meal and distill the ethanol output would be 4 products. 1) BD 2) glycerine 3) ethanol (less that used to make the BD) 4) high protein meal feed -- 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 ---------------------~--> Save Smiley. Help put Messenger back in the office. http://us.click.yahoo.com/4PqtEC/anyFAA/i5gGAA/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/
