Re: [Biofuel] Resource windfall!
I've gotten a couple of submersible pump ends (heads?) from a well drilling outfit that regularly replaces pumps that die after getting hit by lightning. Only the motor dies, and they had a pile for me to hunt through. Didn't notice anything for above ground, since that wasn't what I was looking for. You may have a similar resource where you live. I'd guess that above ground pumps can suffer the same fate, though I hear of the pump end of the above ground pumps going out first in the winter, water freezing and bursting the pump. doug swanson And does anyone know where I can just by pump heads, not full blown pumps? Peace out -K ___ 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/ -- All generalizations are false. Including this one. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * This email is constructed entirely with OpenSource Software. No Microsoft databits have been incorporated herein. All existing databits have been constructed from recycled databits. ___ 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/
Re: [Biofuel] Resource windfall!
I was rooting around under the house recently, trying to find a rumored stockpile of materials left over from when we built the house, and lo and behold I found it. Or something that pretended to be it, at least. I now have, in my possession, some several dozen feet of copper piping, elbows, Y-connectors, Ts, and a good number of ball valves for same piping. As well as four 55 gallon drums, all plastic. Also in this little treasure trove was a 1/4hp motor (1730RPM) and a pair of 1/3hp motors (3300 and 1500RPM), a rather large box of electrical connectors, a small mini-breaker panel, and some three thouand feet of 12ga three conductor wire. Around fifty or so linear feet of PVC piping as well, and joints and connectors for that are easy to find. Rock on, I may not really have to buy ianything/i for a processor later. Just one question, and I haven't been able to find any mention of problems (Though I haven't exactly done an in-depth search yet) concerning using copper piping for everything. Does Methoxide have any problems with it? BD? I know the oil probably won't, and from the use of copper in a methanol condensor I hazard that it doesn't have a problem with it either. And does anyone know where I can just by pump heads, not full blown pumps? Peace out -K Copper and vegetable oil: I'm not so worried about the copper but what the copper does to the fuel. Did you ever check what happened to your fuel properties like oxidation stability and acid value? A lot of research has been done in Germany on VO (and biodiesel) fuel properties, and who I consider as the leading experts clearly warn against using copper in connection with VO because of the catalytic effect it has on the VO. The laboratory ASG Analytik-Service (http://www.asg-analytik.de), who were involved in the research leading to the Rape Seed Oil Fuel Standard, says that just a few PPM of copper in VO will change the oxidation stability... [In SVO systems] with a catalytic metal, I think you have the best conditions and environment for decomposition of the VO, and the effects it has on the fuel properties again have an impact on the engine performance, engine conditions (lifetime) and emissions composition. -- Niels Ansø, Folkecenter, Denmark http://www.folkecenter.dk/plant-oil/plant-oil_en.htm Standardisierung von Rapsöl als Kraftstoff - Untersuchungen zu Kenngröben, Prüfverhafen und Grenzwerten, by Edgar Remmele, thesis on vegetable oil as fuel -- see pp 144-146 for the effects of copper on vegetable oil. Acrobat file, 1.4Mb - in German. Google translation - http://www.google.com/language_tools?hl=en http://tumb1.biblio.tu-muenchen.de/publ/diss/ww/2002/remmele.pdf 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/
Re: [Biofuel] Resource windfall!
Copper and vegetable oil: I'm not so worried about the copper but what the copper does to the fuel. Did you ever check what happened toyour fuel properties like oxidation stability and acid value? A lotof research has been done in Germany on VO (and biodiesel) fuelproperties, and who I consider as the leading experts clearly warn against using copper in connection with VO because of the catalyticeffect it has on the VO. The laboratory ASG Analytik-Service(http://www.asg-analytik.de), who were involved in the research leading to the Rape Seed Oil Fuel Standard, says that just a fewPPM of copper in VO will change the oxidation stability... [In SVOsystems] with a catalytic metal, I think you have the best conditions and environment for decomposition of the VO, and the effects it hason the fuel properties again have an impact on the engineperformance, engine conditions (lifetime) and emissions composition.-- Niels Ansø, Folkecenter, Denmark http://www.folkecenter.dk/plant-oil/plant-oil_en.htm Dang. Guess PVC it is then. Thanks for the links, they'll make for interesting reading during breaks at work. Peace out -K ___ 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/
