Hi,
Im interested in getting methanol within the south east asian region. Would appreciate if anyone could provide me some assistance on where I can obtain methanol or provide me some quotes. Thanks. > > > Joe Street wrote: > > > Hi Jim; > > > > Ok I made up a graph by adding water one ml at a > time to 90 ml of > > pure methanol. This was done at 23 degrees C > which is the current > > temperature in my work area. The hydrometers are > calibrated for 15 > > degrees so this is more practical for my purposes. > As far as Bob's > > comment on what glycerin in the recovered methanol > will do to the > > specific gravity, I cannot guess but glycerin has > a pretty high > > boiling point and my recovered methanol looks > water clear so there is > > not much glycerin in there I think. I am going to > assume it is > > negligible. Primarily I am doing this just to > determine roughly how > > much zeolite I need to dry the methanol. I will > err on the > > conservative side with this. It looks like my > recovered methanol has > > less than 10 % water (worst case) so a litre of > methanol should have > > less than 100 grams of water in it. If zeolite > can adsorb 10% of it's > > weight in water then 1Kg of zeolite per litre of > methanol should be > > sufficient. Here is the chart. Since I typically > recover less than 3 > > litres of methanol at a time I'll look for a > molecular seive which > > holds at least 3 Kg of zeolite. BTW I know it was > mentioned before > > and is in the archives but for convenience the > type of seives to use > > for this is 3A. Best place for this is in the pipe > upstream of the > > condenser. I'll get a trap with a built in heater > so I can use my > > vacuum system to regenerate the seives. I'll then > see how much water > > comes out of the zeolite and collects in the trap. > I'll be interested > > to see if the numbers match up. > > So will I keep me posted Joe. > > Jim > > > > > Cheers > > Joe > > Graph of methanol_water specific gravity. > > > > > > JJJN wrote: > > > >>Does any one know of a good test to determine the > amount of water in > >>methanol? > >> > >>Joe were you working on something like this? > >> > >>Jim > >> > >>_______________________________________________ > >>Biofuel mailing list > >>Biofuel@sustainablelists.org > <mailto: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/ > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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/ > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ 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/
