womplex_oo1 wrote:
Ok fine. You win. They don't teach this stuff in Canadian schools,
and I'm trying to find my way around using 50% intuition. The
Journey to Forever website is really poorly organized - there is no
top-down comprehensive table of contents, and I can't download the
documents,
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From: womplex_oo1 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sunday, September 01, 2002 22:53
Subject: [biofuel] Re: Polyvinyl Alcohol (PVA) Membranes to dehydrate
water-alcohol mixtures
and I can't download the
documents, say in pdf format, so that i
I just found out that dessicants like silica gel only work in humid
air (because of their high surface area, low vapor pressure pores).
Osmosis would work to selectively separate water from ethanol. The
process uses a polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) membrane developed in Japan.
The process
womplex_oo1 wrote:
I just found out that dessicants like silica gel only work in humid
air (because of their high surface area, low vapor pressure pores).
This is all in the archives, several times perhaps. You have several
steps to go still before you find a good way of removing the 5% of
What questions? Perhaps I was away from my computer. Anyways there
is alot of information on that website about using cellulose as a
feedstock, but the webpage has failed to justify it -- they
completely failed to answer the question WHY???
Here is why: Most plants are composed of less
To add to that, we have guys from the University of Pennsylvania
publishing scientific articles telling the public that using corn to
make ethanol is a ZERO net producer of energy. Most people just give
up when they hear that. But if you armed the public with the
knowledge that they are
Here is something else that really ticks me off: coal liquefaction,
making gasoline out of coal using the most environmentally
destructive means, is getting far more attention than this.
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To add to that, we have guys from the
womplex_oo1 wrote:
What questions?
This one, for a start:
You:
It's an interesting read. Particularly important because starchy
granules comprise a very small percentage of plant material, and so
by throwing away plant fiber, we're wasting 99 percent of the
potential chemical energy
Ok fine. You win. They don't teach this stuff in Canadian schools,
and I'm trying to find my way around using 50% intuition. The
Journey to Forever website is really poorly organized - there is no
top-down comprehensive table of contents, and I can't download the
documents, say in pdf
