[Biofuel] HAPPY 2006 AND FRUITFUL NEW YEAR

2005-12-31 Thread Pannirselvam P.V
Dear Biofuel list´s members, my research team members, and my beloved Biofuel list leader KEith It is my deepest will and pleasure that everyone of you enjoy a happy and fruitful new year 2006, seeing biomass based rural eco friendly technology taking off to playing relevant role in today and

Re: [Biofuel] ethanol distillation

2005-11-24 Thread Pannirselvam P.V
as coolant and then recover the energy for drying can be possible ,but yet taht type of noval distillation units need to evolved .You can try one taht can save the huge energy cost of ethanol as one need 5 Kg of steam for every 1 l of ethanol. sd Pannirselvam P.V On 11/23/05, Jonathan Schearer

Re: [Biofuel] Jatropha Curcas

2005-10-31 Thread Pannirselvam P.V
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Biofuel@sustainablelists.org wrote:We are thinking of planting Jatropha Curcas trees using earthworms tocompost waste, the compost we get from the wormswe will use for the Jatropha trees.This URL has a very good article on jatropha's benefits as a fuel and for other

Re: [Biofuel] Plastic solar cells using reused plastics and biofuel making

2005-10-16 Thread Pannirselvam P.V
Hi Joe, Keith and ALL The reuse of Plastics (PET) after adequate thermal treatment has been showed to be very good charge transport used successfully together with conventional silicon PV system reducing the cost and may possible to be home made .. Thus significative cost reduction has been

Re: [Biofuel] plastic solar cell update

2005-10-13 Thread Pannirselvam P.V
Dear Paul We are very glad to inform that we are able to use natural ruber as matrix and natural fiber coconut coir to make felxible plastic products. In this regrad our group list member from Malyasia Manick Harris has helped us a lot. We also able to make regid plastic fiberglass reinforced

Re: [Biofuel] Cheap and easy filtering of WVO

2005-10-02 Thread Pannirselvam P.V
Hi Hal Thank for showing the very nice good picture and your very good work. Some filter aids use on the cloth and some height like cofee filter can improve the filteration quality. In the case of the crude oils , the impurity of small colloidal particles act as the filterationmaking

Re: [Biofuel] Question about E85

2005-09-17 Thread Pannirselvam P.V
Helow angela , Brasil government and petroleium compny is using etanol in gasoline depending on the availabilty for tha car made for gasoline upto 18 porcent of 95 porcent bioethanol made from sugar cane for the tropical climate .You need to bother about room temperature as this may lead to

Re: [Biofuel] Why our current agriculture and food production is not sustainable

2005-09-17 Thread Pannirselvam P.V
Very good paper on sustainability, foo and fuel production. Keith we here in our list need to make the sustainable biofuel project as an alternate to the big business corporate. we need here to integrate the projects BioD, Ethanol, Biogas and wood gas projects for rural industry. More infomation

Re: [Biofuel] Alcohol:Food vs fuel

2005-09-12 Thread Pannirselvam P.V
here. Still I keep hoping it will change in due course. Regards, Subramanian Pannirselvam P.V [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Manick I am native of South India.It is very true that Malaysia and India,the fuel alcohol can be mis used as the drinks. Brazil , where I live now ,here too are making

Re: [Biofuel] Rural energy problem nad Big oil

2005-09-11 Thread Pannirselvam P.V
realities here. Still I keep hoping it will change in due course. Regards, Subramanian Pannirselvam P.V [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Manick I am native of South India.It is very true that Malaysia and India,the fuel alcohol can be mis used as the drinks. Brazil , where I live now ,here too

[Biofuel] Alcohol:Food vs fuel

2005-09-10 Thread Pannirselvam P.V
Dear Manick I am native of South India.It is very true that Malaysia and India,the fuel alcohol can be mis used as the drinks. Brazil , where I live now ,here too are making alcohol for local consume and exportation as the alcoholic drinks and fuel made from sugarcane and fruits as both are

Re: [Biofuel] Alcohol:Food vs fuel

2005-09-10 Thread Pannirselvam P.V
Hellow Keith Thank you very much for your kind reply. As Manick is from India , I am going to request him to make foto of this simple distillation using pot made by poor people of the soth of India. Balaji can be of very much helpful and there are a lot of our list members .

Re: [Biofuel] Alcohol:Food vs fuel

2005-09-10 Thread Pannirselvam P.V
Hellow Keith Thank you very much for your kind reply. You're welcome, I hope we manage to do it. As Manick is from India ,As Manick is from Malasia and also he move often there I have written to him about your dedicated to help all the farmer in the world , the only one such in net. Doesn't

Re: [Biofuel] Grass for fuel and food

2005-09-07 Thread Pannirselvam P.V
Helo WOODARD The maxium photosynthetic is also possible protein is also production per hector is possible which can be easily extracted using alkali treatment or Excellent mushroom can be obtained from this plants. followed by small scale biogasification or thermal gasification or ethanol

[Biofuel] Journey towards small Biocombustivel for all

2005-09-04 Thread Pannirselvam P.V
We have recently finished Master level postgraduate study on ethanol production using immobilized yeast cell using alginate to produce alcohol from fine apple wastes and coconut waters in laboratory scale . Instead of operating the Bio system in a batch mode , fed batch operation can improve

Re: [Biofuel] B100 and jet fuel

2005-09-04 Thread Pannirselvam P.V
Dear Alan,Greg and Petrillo Here in Brazil , the research that had been realized for military to replace Jet fuel using BioD in 1980 was done with positive results, but the details are not much known as less study were conducted at the time . By using low molecular fatty acids ester ,the BioD

Re: [Biofuel] Drying ethanol

2005-09-03 Thread Pannirselvam P.V
Hi Tom Irwin Dear Tom ,really very good your plan to make biofuel from Waste oil .As you are near by Brazil, you can think of the flexible car as this can run both form ethanol as well as the biogas which can be very made in small scale in the farm.Go ahead with the help of several experts

Re: [Biofuel] Drying ethanol

2005-09-03 Thread Pannirselvam P.V
You need to measure the volume and density after and before adosrption and use the pubblished tables to calculate the conecntration and the make mass balance as you pointed out Yours truely Pannirselvam Natal, RN, Brasil. On 9/1/05, Tom Irwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I

Re: [Biofuel] Religion, Politics Biofuels, and Illusion

2005-08-30 Thread Pannirselvam P.V
this list members wish to deal the rural problem in an integrated way , rather than isolated partial technocratic problem solving one. Let us all join here to see the great green future using biofuel to all. Yours truely Pannirselvam P.V On 8/30/05, Pannirselvam P.V [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re: [Biofuel] Religion, Politics Biofuels, and Illusion

2005-08-30 Thread Pannirselvam P.V
of the country. Thanks the mass education after independence which has made India as truely independet very big democracy of the world. Pannirselvam P.V On 8/30/05, Keith Addison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Taryn, PannirselvamDid you read this?http://sustainablelists.org/pipermail

Re: [Biofuel] Religion, Politics Biofuels, and Illusion

2005-08-29 Thread Pannirselvam P.V
Dear Doug Swanson I appreciate your well thoughtful letter regarding our list.But I am not able to fully understand yet that religion develop illusion as I native of India , presently in Brazil .Here religion always do better thing , the school , the hospital , the project for the poor people .

Re: [Biofuel] How to make ehtanol, second try.......

2005-08-27 Thread Pannirselvam P.V
Dear Wdt As motor made in Brasil to run on ethanol has engine design with higher compression than gasoline car , you can think of importing the same as the technology envolves not only the engine , but also several other parts of the car.As I understand , may be Keith knows much better , the

Re: [Biofuel] How to make ehtanol, second try.......

2005-08-27 Thread Pannirselvam P.V
Keith Thanks for your information Even though , there are several well established technology that can be used to make waste into fuel and hence also food by small scale biorefinary in almost all countries, yet economically grown country is moving very slow in this sector .After reading your

Re: [Biofuel] Chemical engineer's letter and bioeng

2005-08-23 Thread Pannirselvam P.V
@sustainablelists.org Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Chemical engineer's letter and bioeng How can I respond to the negative email below? ...with persistence. Good luck! Mike Pannirselvam P.V [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: HI Without the colaborative information exchange

Re: [Biofuel] Lignin crop redidue breakdown

2005-08-21 Thread Pannirselvam P.V
Hi Rich The use of compostingas the pre treatmenthave several disadvantages.Instead ofselective removal of lignin the hemicelluose and cellulose are significantly lost as well as the long processing time , the need for mixed inoculations and also as the problem of contamination.Surley yet this

Re: [Biofuel] Questions on drying Ethanol

2005-08-21 Thread Pannirselvam P.V
Hi Tom As significant equal quantity of CO2 is produzido along with bioethanol , which can be very well utized to regenerate the the used zeolites to replace Nitrogen gas sd Pannirselvam P.V On 8/19/05, Tom Irwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I´m trying to figure my local costs

Re: [Biofuel] Chemical engineer's letter and bioeng

2005-08-21 Thread Pannirselvam P.V
HI Without the colaborative information exchange and dadta base information on biofuel both chemical and bioenginerring people are wasting the money in research not only in USA , but also in the developing country too as an academic curiosity to make patent and publish papers .Hence Mari the e

Re: [Biofuel] de-polymerizing cellulose not practical at this point

2005-08-14 Thread Pannirselvam P.V
Helow Brain, Tom , Robert , Keith and every one As I am from academics side involved in this subject in our list with PHD thesis (IIT, Delhi, India in 1980) on enzymatic hydrolysis of bimass waste and following the research for the past 25 years in this area .After seeing

Re: [Biofuel] RE: jelly and jellybiofuel

2005-08-08 Thread Pannirselvam P.V
of disposing the mess can be an aportunity to make business. Fell free to have help from this list as all here very good experts Yours truely Pannirselvam P.V Federal university ,Natal.RN Brasil On 8/7/05, DERICK GIORCHINO [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Keith More Thanks for you response. I tried

Re: [Biofuel] New Fair Trade Model Needed and ecological engineering

2005-08-07 Thread Pannirselvam P.V
Sustainable global economy need new fair trade model based on the global energy, economy and ecology.Several interesting work in the ecological engineering model can help to find this fair tarde model.by ODUM there can be social tesuname can bee forseen as the big turbulance not only for the

Re: [Biofuel] First Mixer

2005-08-07 Thread Pannirselvam P.V
Greetings to all and Keith Recently I hve the aporunity to participate Germa nad Brasil joint conference held in Fortaleza , N, Brazil on BioD.Af any one from the list needs more infomation we can send more details. One of the BASF proposal is to make to perpare metylhydroxide and

Re: [Biofuel] Re: thermal and biological depolymerization

2005-08-07 Thread Pannirselvam P.V
found to play major role by the fungi of the mushroom family.Thus mushroom production coupled with enzymatic celluase process can make ethanol from cellulose much more sustainable as the celluase enzymes can be reused soon can be mad avaialble plenty. sd Pannirselvam P.V On 8/5/05, Keith

Re: [Biofuel] ethanol from wood using mushrooms using bioprocess

2005-08-05 Thread Pannirselvam P.V
Hello to every one Very simple bio process using mushroom Pluretus can give substrate for simultaneous saccharification(hydrolysis) and fermentation , this can lead to low alcohol content , but a simple solvent extraction with Castor oil as outlined in

Re: [Biofuel] ethanol from wood please compliment

2005-08-05 Thread Pannirselvam P.V
Hi Brain Rodgers Gypsym can be used as depolymerizing and delignication agente for removal of lignin at hiher temperatature , making possivel cellulose seperation , and hence , sugar and alcohol production sd Pannirselvam On 8/4/05, Brian Rodgers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks

Re: [Biofuel] The rise of Corporate Power and the disabling of democracy

2005-08-01 Thread Pannirselvam P.V
Helo Keith The present political crises and corruption in recent turbulence in Brazil is certainly due to the lobby , the big buisness , The Corporate banking system where rich is becoming richer , the poor much poor trying to disable the democracy and sustainable developements .The

Re: [Biofuel] The Homemade Windmills of Nebraska

2005-07-21 Thread Pannirselvam P.V
Helo Keith and all our list members Wind energy is also important bioenergy and thank a lot Keith bringing the very interesting information as this can make possivel to come out with the inovative design sd Pannirselvam On 7/21/05, Keith Addison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: [Biofuel] Fwd: Ethanol from corn vs Biodiesel from soy,etc.

2005-07-11 Thread Pannirselvam P.V
Helo Bob Biodiesel can be made an intergrated way to produce defated soyabens for beef meat substuite and the oil can be directly or via transesterication to produce Biodiesel.As peanut , soybeans as leguminas , they can surely improve the sutainable enegy and food production.Now days we

Re: [Biofuel] ethanol from animal waste

2005-07-11 Thread Pannirselvam P.V
Helo Because pig waste has 80 porcent water , biogasification will be the correct choice followed by termal cracking/gasification .Thus the energy input can be minized as rapid bioconversion is also the comercial process. Energy balance can make the etanol process less

Re: [Biofuel] biodiesel and WVO in all liquid cooled Diesel engines?

2005-07-11 Thread Pannirselvam P.V
Helow Jason Graves Becuase several information you get confused .The more sure what you want , here in this following list arquives you can find what you want. http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ As I undestand , first you need to work raw materil to get clear