Yes,both Keith and David are right. Unless you are referring to palm oil, which have an unusual fatty acid composition, the amount of glycerine in most vegetable oils is roughly 10% by mass. Jan Warnqvist AGERATEC AB
[EMAIL PROTECTED] + 46 554 201 89 +46 70 499 38 45 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Keith Addison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <biofuel@sustainablelists.org> Sent: Saturday, June 17, 2006 6:48 PM Subject: Re: [Biofuel] The amazing properties of Vegtible oil > >Is there a chemist amongst our ranks that can that can quantify % and > >molar, how much glycerin is in 1 liter of soybean oil? tallow? canola? > >Fish? (all virgin)Seems like spend time pondering questions like this of > >late. Any one know? > > > >Jim > > Hello Jim > > "The rule of thumb is 79 millilitres of glycerine for every litre of > oil used (7.9%)." > -- How much glycerine? Why isn't it solid? > Make your own biodiesel - page 2: Journey to Forever > http://journeytoforever.org/biodiesel_make2.html#howmuchglyc > > More information here: > > How much methanol? > http://journeytoforever.org/biodiesel_meth.html > > HTH. > > Best > > Keith > > > _______________________________________________ > 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/
