Re: [Biofuel] First real post, help w/ large scale production

2005-08-18 Thread ings . group
Clark: With those volumes I would want to build a continuous system. The following is a repeat of a recent post Aug 9 (with the additional note that the end product was said to have 2% more energy per unit than dino diesel. The cost is reduced even further by eliminating soduim hydroxide all

Re: [Biofuel] First real post, help w/ large scale production

2005-08-18 Thread Keith Addison
Clark: With those volumes I would want to build a continuous system. The following is a repeat of a recent post Aug 9 (with the additional note that the end product was said to have 2% more energy per unit than dino diesel. The cost is reduced even further by eliminating soduim hydroxide all

Re: [Biofuel] First real post, help w/ large scale production

2005-08-18 Thread Joe Street
The following US patent offers making biodiesel by adding 15% MeOH What does this mean? There is no such compound as MeOH because there is no element with the symbol Me. Are you talking about methoxide? If so could you just say methoxide to avoid confusing people in future please.

Re: [Biofuel] First real post, help w/ large scale production

2005-08-18 Thread Tom Irwin
Hi All, For those who don't know MeOH stands for MEthane with an OH group attached. It's shorthand for methanol. Tom From: Joe Street [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]To: Biofuel@sustainablelists.orgSent: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 11:05:40 -0300Subject: Re: [Biofuel] First real post, help w/ large scale

Re: [Biofuel] First real post, help w/ large scale production

2005-08-18 Thread Joe Street
attached. It's shorthand for methanol. Tom From: Joe Street [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] To: Biofuel@sustainablelists.org Sent: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 11:05:40 -0300 Subject: Re: [Biofuel] First real post, help w/ large scale production The following US patent offers making

Re: [Biofuel] First real post, help w/ large scale production

2005-08-18 Thread des
Joe Street wrote: Ahh ok that makes sense. I thought it must be some exotic type of caustic used in this radical new process! I still think it would be less confusing to just say 'methanol' though ; I am thinking about how I could do a quick test to see what happens. I am guessing that the