Perhaps your test batch was warm or even hot when sealed in the washer and cooled while being washed, thereby creating a vacuum?
Ray --- In biofuel@yahoogroups.com, Martin Klingensmith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 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. > > > -- > -- > Martin Klingensmith > http://infoarchive.net/ > http://nnytech.net/ ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Make a clean sweep of pop-up ads. Yahoo! Companion Toolbar. Now with Pop-Up Blocker. Get it for free! http://us.click.yahoo.com/L5YrjA/eSIIAA/yQLSAA/FGYolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/biofuel/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
