Re: [Biofuel] Ryan's costs experiences WAS: more canada biofuels

2006-05-18 Thread Ryan Pope
From: Keith Addison [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Biofuel@sustainablelists.org To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Ryan's costs experiences WAS: more canada biofuels Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 06:10:20 +0900 Wow, Ryan, you missed every point going! It's late now, all I have

Re: [Biofuel] more canada biofuels

2006-05-18 Thread Ryan Pope
, Ryan Pope [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fred, First, for background, I'm an engineer. It's ALL cost/gain analysis; it can always be build better, but its not worth the cost. OK now, I'm not looking for finacial gain, but rather prevention of financial loss. Where I am in my life right now means

Re: [Biofuel] more canada biofuels

2006-05-17 Thread Ryan Pope
I'm building the processsor and running test batches simultaniously so I can shift to large scale as fast as possible. I can't reclaim my investment with small batches. And it was only the first batch that I felt the (unnecessary) need to reprocess that I had problems with. The one

Re: [Biofuel] Thermal conductivity Please help

2006-05-17 Thread Ryan Pope
Well, I'm a little rusty but I'll see what I can recall. I could dig out my Transport Phenomena notes, but that would bring back alot of bad memories. So this is a 300 K temperature difference across the silicon whatever? So, perhaps, silicon will transfer 149 W of energy for every meter of

Re: [Biofuel] more canada biofuels

2006-05-17 Thread Ryan Pope
Fred, First, for background, I'm an engineer. It's ALL cost/gain analysis; it can always be build better, but its not worth the cost. OK now, I'm not looking for finacial gain, but rather prevention of financial loss. Where I am in my life right now means I am driving 90+ miles a day

Re: [Biofuel] Thermal conductivity Please help

2006-05-17 Thread Ryan Pope
Listen to this guy, not me...I said I was rusty. :) Ryan From: Logan Vilas [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Biofuel@sustainablelists.org To: Biofuel@sustainablelists.org Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Thermal conductivity Please help Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 21:37:40 -0500 -Original Message-

[Biofuel] Ryan's costs experiences WAS: more canada biofuels

2006-05-17 Thread Ryan Pope
I'll just embed my replies below, as there are alot of little short answers. On 5/17/06, Keith Addison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Ryan I'm building the processsor and running test batches simultaniously so I can shift to large scale as fast as possible. You said you started the wrong

Re: [Biofuel] more canada biofuels

2006-05-16 Thread Ryan Pope
I bought my processor assembly kit from there. He can assemble plumbing fitting kits for less than I can buy the fittings for. Ryan From: Keith Addison [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Biofuel@sustainablelists.org To: Biofuel@sustainablelists.org Subject: Re: [Biofuel] more canada biofuels

Re: [Biofuel] HELP

2006-05-10 Thread Ryan Pope
try http:\\www.chemfinder.com From: Alex Mashego [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Biofuel@sustainablelists.org To: Biofuel@sustainablelists.org Subject: [Biofuel] HELP Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 09:32:48 +0200 hi guys i need help, i have a task to design a heat exchanger to cool 78% sulphuric

[Biofuel] gelled rebatch

2006-05-07 Thread Ryan Pope
I attempeted to post this last week. Didn't come through due to glitches of some sort. *-*-*-*-*-*-* I made my first small batch last Wednesday, and it turned out OK; I thought it had a little too much soapiness, so I reprocessed it. 100ml methnol, 3.5g NaOH, 1.5hrs, as per directions.

Re: [Biofuel] Iogen - Post to List

2006-05-04 Thread Ryan Pope
With some sort of per gallon fuel discount for gallons of good quality oil (WVO, SVO, crop mass, whatever) donated to the fuel production measure...it's crossed my mind a few times. Ryan From: MK DuPree [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org To:

Re: [Biofuel] FFA's as Weed Killer

2006-05-02 Thread Ryan Pope
From what I remember from my botany courses, plant leaves are also very tightly regulated to reduce water loss. A leaf is basically a large, flat surface coursing with fluid; exactly what you would do to promote evaporation. To slow evap., most leaves have passive pores that close in dry

Re: [Biofuel] WVO-Water Separation: coalescer media

2006-04-27 Thread Ryan Pope
- Original Message - From: Ryan Pope [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2006 12:19 PM Subject: [Biofuel] WVO-Water Separation: coalescer media I'm trying to think of alternate ways to reduce/eliminate water in WVO that are both easy (i.e. passive

[Biofuel] WVO-Water Separation: coalescer media

2006-04-26 Thread Ryan Pope
that will then separate by gravity on the downstream side of the media. An example video can be seen at http://www.kaydonfiltration.com/tech_video.htm Not sure on cost of the bulk media yet. Thanks, Ryan Pope

Re: [Biofuel] WVO-Water Separation: coalescer media

2006-04-26 Thread Ryan Pope
applejack style dewatering? get it REALLY cold so the oil solidifies, or the water freezes, whichever comes first and screen it out? thats how the old folks used to make apple whiskey for hard cider when my grandma was a kid. - Original Message - From: Ryan Pope [EMAIL PROTECTED