Ken Provost wrote:
> on 8/18/04 5:42 AM, Teoman Naskali at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>
>>When I wash my test batch, it creates a vaccum
>>in the container it is washed in. Obviously
>>some kind of chemical reaction takes place. What
>>could it be? And what does it absorb from the
>>air???
>
>
> Interesting -- I've never noticed that. My guess
> is that methanol is vaporizing out of the unwashed
> fuel before you seal the container, displacing air
> out of the headspace, and then dissolving in the
> wash water after the container is sealed.
>
> Nothing in the air would be taken up by the fuel
> quickly enough to explain it (O2 reacting with
> double bonds in unsaturated fatty acid chains
> would take days, for example). -K
>
Perhaps the air above the biodiesel is warm at first and cools after
washing, contracting and creating a vacuum.
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