>Now typical bio-diesel is veg oil treated with methanol and potassium >hydroxide. Veg oil is a collection of compounds called esters (made by >joining an organic aicd with an alcohol). The process makes all the various
>esters turn to methyl esters and liberate all the other alcohols (process >called transeserification) >The likely waste stream will be... >Methanol + potassium hydroxide + water + other alcohols (ethanol, propanol, >butanol, glycerine, etc) >Ron Jones Takes me back to my happy days of youth when I did a degree in Polymer Chemistry before I became a boring old accountant. Colin [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
