Could you put it through a still like you were going to make your own ethanol? I assume that the biofuel and glycerin are higher boiling points and the methanol will decanter off.
Greg O. from MA -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Keith Addison Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2006 12:04 PM To: Biofuel@sustainablelists.org Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Methanol Recovery? Hi Theo Big-time, huh? :-) >Hello everyone, I am scaling up the size of my processing units to >make about 300-400gallons of biodiesel a day. Right now I do not do >any methanol recovery however at the larger scale it makes a lot of >finical sense to get back the methanol. I have had a lot of trouble >finding somewhat larger devices for recovering the methanol. I was >wondering if anyone has experience in this field. The internet >mentions methanol recovery but no sights really go into methanol >recovery and biodiesl. Any help would be appreciated. am open to >either homemade designs or ones that can be purchased. Any useful >links or links to pictures would be great. Also is it be to recover >methanol form the glycerin, the biodiesel or both? Preferably both, but you should do it at the right stages, and you have to make some decisions about how to handle the by-product. See: Reclaiming excess methanol http://journeytoforever.org/biodiesel_make2.html#methreclaim Best Keith _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.or g Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
