You will always make some soap when you make bio-B in the one step process. You can greatly reduce the amount of soap that you make if you use the two step process.
Step one: convert Free Fatty Acids to methyl esters at low pH. Step two: convert the oil to methyl esters at high pH. Free Fatty acids are brake down products of oil from heat or biological activity. So fresh oil that has not been heated will have low amounts of Free fatty acids. But the two step process will allow one to make bio-d from oil that has alot of Free fatty acids and reduce that formation of soaps. Basicly the two step process allows one to use less lye which makes less soaps but still allows for the convertion to methyl esters. The big jelly blob are due to soaps. Check the archive for recipes the 1 step and 2 step recipes are there. T -----Original Message----- From: neeterlynn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 07, 2003 11:48 AM To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com Subject: [biofuel] Can I make soap from WVO? Can somebody please help me?I know glycerine is a biproduct of making biodiesel, but what if I set out to make soap from the beginning? Will I end up with more soap than if I made biodiesel and saved the glycerine?I'm not quite ready to make biodiesel, but I read that oils mixed with lye makes soap basicly.If someone has some answers or recipes, it would be so valuable to me! I read also that if you put too much lye when making biodiesel and made a big jelly blob, you could still make it into soap. 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/ ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> FREE Cell Phones with up to $400 Cash Back! http://us.click.yahoo.com/_bBUKB/vYxFAA/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/
