: Friday, April 23, 2004 9:16 PM
Subject: [biofuel] Re: isopropyl alcohol - Todd
Muchas Gracias Todd. Puts me at ease to go ahead and give it a go. I
picked up a sample (1 liter) WVO at the Chinese restaurant we go to
regularly and from where I am hoping will come some of the WVO I
will be using
x-charset ISO-8859-1everclear is ethyl alcohol.
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get some everclear at liquor store
99.7%
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- Original Message -
From: Aleksander lt;kac [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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What are the problems to be encountered when using isopropanol?
Acid based reactions work with all alcohols, base catalyzed reactions
seem to be picky.
Aleks,
out of curiosity I had a go at trying to make Bd from
Paul,
snip
Very hard to dissolve NaOH, would KOH dissolve better. Had to
almost boil
the isopropyl before NaOH would dissolve. On cooling the mixture
solidified.
Tried using conc aqueous solution of NaOH but as it was poured into
isopropanol it the NaOH precipitated out.
Yepp. That's the
Hi Paul !
Can you tell me what advantages BD made using higher alcohols (eg
isopropanol) would have over BD made using methanol or ethanol?
Longer chain alcohols seem to raise the winter properties of
biodiesel: Ethyl esters are better than methyl, propyl even better,
butyl esters would be
- Original Message -
From: Aleksander lt;kac [EMAIL PROTECTED]
If I will be able to make isoprop esters the usual way, then lipase is
also no issue anymore to me.
Aleks
Aleks,
I am indebted to you for the invaluable information that you have gathered
and shared with everyone.
Can
