RE: [biofuel] Re: ethanol distillation

2002-02-13 Thread janandjoe
I am currently experimenting with adapting copper cylinders which are heated via a coil using solar collectors, as a processing vessel for some stage of biofuel making. The reasoning is that I work for a company installing solar thermal systems and we usually replace the existing copper cylinders

RE: [biofuel] copper vessels

2002-01-17 Thread janandjoe
Excellent! -thank you very much Adrian Any further info would be much appreciated - I was beginning to doubt my sanity (again). A Masters research project rests on this idea and the company I work for would love to be able to give added value to the copper cylinders we replace when installing

[biofuel] copper vessels

2002-01-15 Thread janandjoe
Hello Has anyone tried using copper vessels in biofuel batch making process - would react with sodium hydroxide (to copper oxide) but what about with sodium methoxide? Potential to use old copper hot water cylinders and heat with solar collectors - could use for just heating WVO but what about