[Biofuel] hydrogen and biodiesel

2006-04-27 Thread Randall Phelps
I was reading a research paper that indicated that loading vegetable 
oil with Hydrogen would have much the same effect as using an acid for 
transesterfication. If this is the case, would it be more cost effective 
to use Hydrogen? It seems steps could be eliminated or made simpler. 
Does anyone have experience or information relating to this?

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[Biofuel] castor oil

2006-04-26 Thread Randall Phelps
I think I remember hearing that Castor oil was used like like motor oil 
in lawn mowers during oil fuel rationing in WWII.

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Re: [Biofuel] Animal Fat

2006-04-26 Thread Randall Phelps
Animal fat (tallow) has a different chemical make-up than vegetable oil. 
You need to do much more purification. You get soap (glycerin) like 
results with vegetable oil, just not as much. I think that if you use a 
stronger caustic agent to separate mixture components, you may have more 
success.
 
Randall

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Re: [Biofuel] Animal Fat

2006-04-26 Thread Randall Phelps
I stand corrected, sorry to give bad information.

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