Oh, such sad news. Hardly a day will pass of me not thinking of Keith - as
always. Deepest sympathies, Midori.
Rest in peace, brother.
Aleks
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To see alpine beekeping and beehouses you need to come to Slovenia. I'm
starting to keep bees myself this year, with one colony. I will
build a beehouse into a whole side of my roofed patio, so it will be a part of
the house. This is not traditional, but also not unheard of.
A trip to Slovenia
Well, I need to say something here. Why all these inventions?
You can buy a whole production car capable of 100 mpg today.
The world record in fuel economy set by Gerhardt Plattner with this car is
actually way better: 107 mpg from austria to denmark and back, 2007 km on 45
litres of diesel,
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Well, I need to say something here. Why all these inventions?
You can
Ahoy!
Hi Aleks!
hope all is well with you Keith
Got more problems than a cat with 20 kittens and only two tits. :-)
Changing countries has never been so complicated before. Nearly there
though - I'll go out in an hour or so and dash about the place again,
and that should be it, then I can take
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hope all is well with you Keith
Got more problems than a cat with 20 kittens and only two tits. :-)
Changing countries has never been so complicated before. Nearly there
though - I'll go out in an hour or so and dash about the place again,
and that should be it, then I can take it easy
{Small Snip}
Proceeding from the assumption that a fire-response service is a
rational response to the threat of structure fires and related hazards
to residents, it becomes necessary to fund that service. How to go
about it, on a sustainable basis? Let's suppose a fire house includes 3
http://www.fourseasonfarm.com/resources/index.html#greenhouses
This chap wrote a book. I ordered it last week, but I can't comment as amazon
says it'll take another
two weeks to get here. I just built a hybrid (well, bigger than a cold frame
and not a full size
greenhouse) last weekend. It will
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Liz,
I have a student who is studying biodiesel as his chemistry project. We
have
located a method of thin Layer Chromatography for the quality analysis but
he also wants to try paper chromatography. We ahve tried some solvents but
they only work for the glycerides layer. Does anyone have
I believe one degree is the
difference between water or ice.
Nope. One degre is the difference between 1 degree and 0 degree
water. The difference between the solid and liquid state of matter
is several times bigger. Ice has a lot more energy trapped inside
then just the deltaT of 1.
But
snip
The use of biofuel conforming to EN14214 as a blend component at up
to 5% is accepted by the European vehicle manufacturers and their
guarantees are honoured, providing the finished fuel remains in
conformity with the diesel fuel standard EN 590. A blend component
exceeding this
snip
Aleks said this in a message a few months ago:
Opel in his new DI engines forbidds use of bio in any form. New
VW models do not tolerate biodiesel also (any form, not even B5) in
someengines.
We have had a LC Toyota (100 series) with a totally broken IP after
only6.000
km on neat bio
Hakan,
I am confused, in front of me I have the sales literature and
specs of VW Lupo 3L in Spanish.
It is clearly stated that the VW Lupo 3L is RME compatible
clean or in any mix and that is biodiesel on Rape seed.
I do not have the latest literature for other VW models, but
have a
When I start my homebrew biodiesel refining with that
150 lbs of WVO I've been discussing, I would to
circulate the byproduct crude glycerin into
distillation and purify it to about 90% purity or
better. The reason is that I would like to recycle
and send the glyerin to a local natural soap bar
snip
I've found two types of containers that I'd like to use for storage, or
washing / bubbling... Both contained silicon... One is a sealed top 55
gal drum with two 2 bungs on top, the other is a 275 gal cube with a
metal cage around it. It has a 2 valve at the bottom, and a 6 bung /
cover on
Luc,
snip
The only place metric fails is in micro measurements where 1000's of an
inch
is required, but that is neither here nor there for the average person.
One 1000th of an inch is 0.0254 milimeter. Rather coarse for machining ...
We have milimeters (1/1000th of a meter) and micrometers
Dave,
snip
As it has been
explained to me, it is a matter of getting the enzymes cheap enough to
make it cost effective--one cannot make the enzymes themselves, they are
a product of biotech. Am I mistaken? What are the enzymes and where do
they come from?
snip
Enzymes are a product of nature,
Biodiesel homebrewers,
what hydroxide are you using, sodium or potassium?
If you have switched from one to another, are the results any better?
Anyone ethyl esters yet - single stage, two stage, mistery process?
Just wondering, I switched from sodium to potassium hydroxide.
The wash seems a
I'm sure there is a catalytic process to do this. One thing I know of is
that methane can be conveted to syngas, which can then be converted to
methanol through the critical process, or through a zinc-slurry process:
snip
The meth sold in my country is made exclusively by a catalytic
Arttu,
snip
Could methane, easily produced from rotting biomass, be used to make
propane? It's easier and safer to handle than methane in transportation
use, that's why ask. They do it in making polymers, but that's with
extremely long hydrocarbon-chains.
Rotting biomass produces a mix of
Todd,
You're right Alex, at least in part.
Let's not just linch all other auto makers than Volkswagen ...
There's a lot going on outside the USofA.
I should have qualified that, at least in part, leaning more heavily on
American auto manufacturers than most others. Then again, its rather
Mark,
you're not serious making a first batch of 100 gal, are you?
Have you made any trial batches?
How'd it go?
How do you wanna heat a 100 gal of WVO?
Cheers, Aleks
Hello all.My name is Mark Rose.I live in Yarmouth Nova Scotia,Canada.I am
new to the list and have been preparing for some
snip
That's ~62 mpg, ten more miles per gallon than the 1.6 liter, four
cylinder diesel of Rabbit and mid 1980's Golf fame.
Don't know if a 20% improvement in 20-25 years is all that great. But at
least it's an improvement, providing it ever becomes a production
vehicle, especially
While I know some of you think that anyone who buys a new car is nuts,
some
of us just don't have the time to play back yard mechanic. I learned long
ago that hiring someone to do the kind of work that needs to be done with
an older car means bankruptcy. The old adage of if you want it
YEP!
Hic .. #..*.* .*^ ^ :o)
Cheers, ...^, hic
Aleks ...
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Here's wishing you a Merry
Dermot,
transfer esters to a separate washing vessel. That's why samples a and b
wash fine and the the
batch washed in the reactor doesn't. Aparently some of the glycerinuous
phase clings to the surface
and, as mentioned by Luc, to the plumbing. I also wash my biodiesel
reactor after each
Rob,
I have made small scale and feel able to continue to make small scale
batches.
Move to actual fuel production with straight base methods. Drive on
the fuel for a while. Most skills you'll gain will help you in any
type of process you should use; the only thing is, that the two stage
can
Yes, a fine proposal. But let's not forget Keith, also spending a lot of
his
resources keeping us (the nuthouse) alive for, how many years now?
Journey has a donation button also. Both of them should deserve at
least some expense coverage from us all.
Cheers, Aleks
Gustl Steiner-Zehender
Hi Aleks, Johan
Sake brewers do it a different way. Do you know about this Aleks?
Yep. Momentarily I don't have enough space to try these
mash/fermentations.
Hopefully, in a year or so.
snip
Huh? Bush what?
Bushwhacked? LOL!
:o)_ .
Cheers, Aleks
Mamuel,
Thank you for the explanation.
Glad you like it :-).
After your hints and further investigation it seems a 50% reduction
of CO is a good average estimation for CO reduction while it is
dependent on engine technology, engine tuning and feedstock used.
Yes.
As for CO2, there is only a
I have been doing a lot of reading over the last few weeks; I would like
to distil my own ethanol but have a slight problem. I live in Africa
and would appreciate it if anybody can supply me with a brand name for
alpha beta-amylases. Is there any alternative besides barley?
Sure, corn malt.
I have been doing a lot of reading over the last few weeks; I would like
to distil my own ethanol but have a slight problem. I live in Africa
and would appreciate it if anybody can supply me with a brand name for
alpha beta-amylases. Is there any alternative besides barley?
Sure, corn malt.
Manuel,
There is many articles and studies about the reduced emissions of CO2 and
CO when using biodiesel as compared to diesel emissions. Most sources
document 80-100% reduction of CO2 and 50% reduction of CO.
Can be even better.
Provided the calorific energy of biodiesel is quite similar to
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A tragic fire this morning destroyed the personal library of
President George W. Bush.
Both of his books have been lost.
A presidential spokesman said the president was devastated, as he had
almost finished colouring the second one.
Roy,
I have just made my first batch of fuel, it worked just great considering
the rough measuring used.
Thanks for all the info.
I have a few questions someone may care to answer though.
On mixing the lye with the methanol a (part) chemical reaction seems take
place.
I assume it is a reaction
The hybrid Hummer. All diesel subs starting well before WW2.
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Chickensoup!
(at least a mild case).
When heating does not disperse an emulsion you have to resort to heavier
mallets. Usually lowering/raising the pH does the trick. Since you do not
want
any more emulsion, you should lower the pH, using citric acid, vinegar or
phosphoric acid in na 10% or less
Excellent insight Aleks, thank you very much. I'll give it a shot and
post
my findings. My goodness, the learning curve is time intensive!
Now, however, I'm curious as to why mono or di glycerides would
concentrate
in the wash water. Enough catalyst but not enough methanol? Incomplete
snip
It is human nature to believe in A HIGHER BEEN because we all look for a
father or mother figure to cling to.
Um, I am a strong believer of higher beans ... :-) ... red kidney
especially.
And that these beans cling to poles :o).
Yum.
Cheers
Aleks
Kim,
excellent morning reading :-)_
Cheers, Aleks
Sorry, I forgot I can't send an attachment. Here is the article for those
who wanted to read it.
Bright Blessings,
Kim
We Are the Other People
by Oberon Zell
Ding-dong! goes the doorbell. Is it Avon calling? Or perhaps Ed McMahon
Drum in upright position: remove the small cap and fit a ball valve
(preferably teflon inner husing) with a hose connector on the other side
into the threads, sealing with teflon tape. Lay the drum flat on a stand
(make of wood, or if enough skilled weld of steel tubes). Takes two quite
Yo Keith/community!
Well, all is well that ends well. I tuned the pump myself yesterday,
loosened the spring tensioner device of the diaphragm somewhat (to
start spritzing fuel in at a lower turbo boost) and I then minimally
enriched the mixture by rotating the eccentric pin towards a richer
Everybody, since I got a lot offline traffic
For those who like to tinker on a fuel pump:
A land rover forum should be where to look for. I can't try
this here at work (no internet allowed as for previous
non work related searches i.e. biofuels, JtF ... here's
democracy forya).
Start at this
I took off my fuel tank last saturday, mainly to see if any buildup of
anything is
on the bottom and fuel feed and return manifolds inside the tank after
four
years of driving on bio and various blends of bio/dino.
The result: zero. Absolutely clean, no spot of rust, no nothing. All
plastic
Oh, and it was about 5.200 litres of bio running through (150 batches in
35 litre reactor)
I took off my fuel tank last saturday, mainly to see if any buildup of
anything is
on the bottom and fuel feed and return manifolds inside the tank after
four
years of driving on bio and various
the two stage method is ok for high ffa content but still produces
inferior products the glycerine is horrible for making soap and i have
my doubts about the bd product it still retains that awful smell and
there is a not a good return ratio especially with no soap by product
we abandoned
koal2.cop.fi/leonardo/
Look it all up, somewhere on the webpage there's some
info on quality testing.
Cheers, Aleks
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I use the same kind, no binder made briq's, for the bulk of my winter
heating. Less than 2 kg of these
briq's are the thermal equivalent of one litre of heating oil. I need
about 1 metric ton per winter, and
it's 3 times cheaper than heating oil per kWh of heat. The shawings and
sawdust are
Dan,
The ELSBETT engine sounds appealing, but I have no idea how hard it would
be
to match one to my station wagon, how hard it would be to find a mechanic
comfortable with this relatively unknown engine ( in these parts), and I
really have no sense of what this thing would cost from the web
Combine sawdust with hacked rice straw (about 2 in long) as a filler and
mix in poor concrete or concrete milk.
Cast porridge in wooden forms (blocks several inches or panels desired
inches thick) and use for insulation
between rafters. Straw panels made this way are still widely used in
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From: m gildow [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Saturday, September 18, 2004 7:43 PM
Subject: [Biofuel] 2004 VW Jetta TDI
After having a VW Pickup and becoming interested in
Biodiesel as a fuel I have bought a new 2004 VW Jetta
TDI. I have read
Hello Adrian!
And how exactely would we do that? Biodiesel lounch
is difficult in countries without the knowledge of
biofuels existance.
Keith, please send a team over! Valium and streight jackets
and everything included. Soon to be two frustrated
people here, banging heads against concrete
No way by heating.
Sodium hydride (NaH) is made electrolitically. A sodium bar
is sunk in saltwater and made into a cathode and put to power.
Remember the 'cold fusion? Well, this is not very far away.
There are some other ways but none of them is cheap - sodium
lye for one is cheap, but when
WOW!
Boys and girls, 't looks like R2D2 (in a cage)! Terrific!
A bit complicated for me of course, but it makes a nice portable reactor.
Cheers, Aleks
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There is another strong reason to consider: a scientist, who's
funds are running out and is not as popular in the science com-
munity decides to take sides. He makes enemies, gains some
funds (it doesn't really matter where they come from, if his dept
is just so little far away from being
Burning oil in an open combustion chamber is not the same as
pressure burning in the engine (yes, in a diesel engine the fuel
burns, it does not explode). But it is not far from the truth when you
say diesel exhausts cause cancer. Dinod exhaust contains different
cancerogene substancies as
You are absolutely right. But a molecule of water weights just 18 g/mol.
Another possibility to drain water may be osmosys which requires a
membrane.
*i don't know why it works, but old pilots like myself used to filter our
aircraft gas through a 'chamoix', that is a wool-less sheepskin.
Keith Addison
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The trap works very much like the oil traps in air compressors. I
used the pressure pot from a paint spraying system. It holds about
ten liters.
Uhm, don't quite get it. (not so good in engineering).
I plan to borrow a camera and post pictures this weekend. Steal all
you want! I plan to
And, of course, those switches.
Any special kind?
I first evacuate the tank, then suck in the oil through a filter
setup
that I'm a little too proud of. I mix the methoxide separately,
using
a drill press with a paint mixer installed, then suck it into the
tank. Then flip the pump switch.
But I'm not sure a biochemist would
even
drive a diesel, much less make his/her own fuel.
They make cheese, mostly. :o).
Isn't the acid catalyzed reaction slw? Suslick and his followers
claim chemical reactions can be sped up considerably if US is used
during the processing. I haven't
It
would be interesting to apply such power to a small sample of
vegetable oil and methanol (or ethanol), without catalyst, and
examine
the results. Even if this produced no reaction, introduction of an
acid catalyst should. Any biochemists out there?
Well, you need organic chemists,
Hey Keith!
How are you? Have you made it through New year's eve? In Slovenija
it was biting cold.
A question.
I don't seem to understand Martin's lingo AT ALL. Did you communicate
with him? What's his problem? To tell you the truth, I'm quite lost without
punctuation. I don't get much from his
A word of warning :
saving on methanol is a cheap way to make fuel. You'll get good
so-called yield and poor conversion. In other words :
Cheating on meth means drivng on glycerids.
Are there any other chemists in our group?
To help me explain that there is no perpetuum mobile?
To help me
Hello Kevin!
Let's clear some things for you here!
Are you suggesting that the Methanol/Acid ratio is more important
than the Acid/Fat ratio.
Yes. Sulph acid/Meth should be 1-2ml/100ml. And for complete base
tranz your sodium methoxide should be 0.5 M (stands for molar, meaning
mols of NaOH per
Keith Addison
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Well, first things first:
glyc can't be broken down to glucose since it has fewer C atoms.
Second:
glyc is a flat chain of three C atoms, glucose is a ring compound of five
C atoms and one O.
So glucose is a heterogeneous ring compound. There is a process
called glycerolysys in bio-reactions -
Hi Aleks
I thought YOU where supposed to be telling US !
you're the chemistry tech
;-)
Yeah right! You do not know, but you are talking to a
failed chemistry student, who is painfully picking up
the remains of his knowledge!
Will a system something like taking water out of
alcohol work?
For all of you, who care to know a little more:
There are actually two kinds of transesterification:
alkali based and acid based.
This reaction is in chemistry known as NUCLEOPHILLIC
SUBSTITUTION. It can be done in two ways :
1.using strong acids as catalysts (this way it is possible to
make FFA
Always use crystalline hydrate forming compounds:
plaster (CaSO4*2H20)
burned lymestone (CaO + H2O = Ca(OH)2
CuSO4*5H2O
soda Na2CO3*2H2O etc.
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Are there any other chemicals/products that can be
used? would silica gel
be effective or will it absorb
Hello folks!
You should wash vegetable oil contaminated electrodes
with DISH SOAP and WATER! Never use any solvent with
an
epoxy electrode!!
Solvent wash is needed if you sample mineral oil
products.
both petroleum and
vegetable oils but that the glass gets coated with
oil and a solvent must
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Sent: Monday, October 16, 2000 9:51 PM
Subject: Re: [biofuel] Re: pH checker very cheap
You see, pH is a measure for the concentration of
H+
or OH- ions in liquids (matter in general). The
medium
You see, pH is a measure for the concentration of H+
or OH- ions in liquids (matter in general). The medium
doesn't matter. Organic acids are poorly dissociated,
so H+ activity is low. Measurement takes in water 30
sec's and in oil 2 min's. Wash electrode carefully
after measuring oils with dish
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I did and I didn't find anything near that cheap.
I got this one. But it' cheaper in the store than
over the internet.
http://www.davisontheweb.com/shop/page153.html
Cheers, Aleks
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--- Bryan Fullerton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Oh really and where might I find something like
that? Remember it has to
work in oil. Any soil ones I have tested have not
worked in oil..
Be interested in knowing your source...
Check with your local chemicals and lab equipment
suplyer. Also
their related water
line scams, said to improve water quality by
snapping a small pair of
magnets around your lines.
Well, Steve,
wrong again, magnetic field actually improves water
qualitiy, if less limestone is your goal. Without the
maegnetic field limestone crystalyzes in calcyte
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If you invest in an electronic meter you could have
used that money to buy
almost 400 gallons of regular diesel(G) Well at
least the ones I looked at
A digital pH indicator (means it has no temp
compensation) costs less than 15 US$. It looks
Hi, Steve!
This is a bit untrue, as Nuclear Magnetic Resonance is
used mainly in agriculture to figure out oil content
in sunflower seeds, for example. One job back I made
this NMR monsters. Magnetic force works mainly on
protons, in our case hydrogen prtns, but working with
a permanent magnet to
Hi there, David!
Currently I'm investigating a no waste tretment of
cellulose, namely Saccharification by microorganisms.
I have info on two types of cellulose splitting :
1. mycotic splitting by Trychodermas fungus
2. bacterial splitting by the Clostrydium strand -
this has to be cellulose
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I am wondering
Has anyone tryed drying eth by reverse osmosis?
Where I worked before we used a small CHRIST unit for water
deionification (we needed very pure water, not even ions were
allowed). Such units are easy to operate - there are only cartridges
to change and oil to look after in the pump. If you
Hey Keith,
long time no write ( our mail server was down). The last three
batches vent on well. The biod smells kind'a oily and nice. I
purchased a digital pH meter-money well spent (~50 USD). But I
found out a strange thing in my calculations of lye using my
measurements. With starting pH of
Well Keith,my friend,
seems you were right about the fatty acids. I've checked
with a friend, who works in a veg oil refinement plant and
she told me, that you can split triglycerids and fail to
form monoesters (methanol vapours out, not enough stirring,...)
All acids don't saponificate, some
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