Hi Ryan, I live about 70 miles from Kaydon Filtration. I talked with them this morning and they told me that this filter will not work on vegetable oil. Sorry. Good thought though.
Bill Clark ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ryan Pope" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <biofuel@sustainablelists.org> Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2006 12:19 PM Subject: [Biofuel] WVO-Water Separation: coalescer media > I'm trying to think of alternate ways to reduce/eliminate water in WVO > that are both easy (i.e. passive) and don't involve the energy use of > heating a bulk volume of oil to near water BP. > > Coalescing media comes to mind, has anybody every looked into this > further or heard of its use in biodiesel production? All I see on JtF is > variations on heating and settling. > > If you aren't familiar with coalescer media, it works because as the > oil-water mix is passed though the media, the small suspended drops of water > tend to group together into larger and larger drops of free water that will > then separate by gravity on the downstream side of the media. > > An example video can be seen at > http://www.kaydonfiltration.com/tech_video.htm > > Not sure on cost of the bulk media yet. > > Thanks, > > Ryan Pope > > _________________________________________________________________ > On the road to retirement? Check out MSN Life Events for advice on how to > get there! http://lifeevents.msn.com/category.aspx?cid=Retirement > > > _______________________________________________ > 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/ _______________________________________________ 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/
