Is there not a danger of fire putting combustible materials in a microwave
oven?
Damian
On Sat, 25 Jan 2003, girl mark wrote:
Theoretically a backyard test for water content is to weigh a sample, then
heat to past the boiling point of water, then weigh again. Someone figured
out once that
damian,
supposedly the biodiesel doesn't heat up very fast- the person who reported
doing this test said that the water boiled off and the biodiesel was still
cool to the touch. I'm sure you would want to only nuke it in
several-second bursts. I havetn' tried doing this, not liking microwave
Continuing in the overly dramatic subject line for this thread vein...
Well I went to weigh and then to dry and reweigh the samples I had, and
found another annoying and very odd thing.
Here's a recap:
a few weeks ago when I started experimenting with 'bubbledrying', I had
taken some freshly
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From: girl mark [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Like I said I haven't done this qualitatively before- so I don't know if
the amount of water sufficient to form haze in the fuel is a sufficient
mass of water for me to weigh on a .1g sensitivity scale. any ideas on
what
Continuing in the overly dramatic subject line for this thread vein...
Well I went to weigh and then to dry and reweigh the samples I had, and
found another annoying and very odd thing.
Here's a recap:
a few weeks ago when I started experimenting with 'bubbledrying', I had
taken some freshly
oops I made a really big mistake in last post. where it says:
had taken some samples of both unwashed and some washed fuel and I had
sealed them in mason jars.
It should read:
has taken some samples of both washed/undried and washed/dried fuel and
sealed them in mason jars
If any of you
drying- big correction
oops I made a really big mistake in last post. where it says:
had taken some samples of both unwashed and some washed fuel
and I had
sealed them in mason jars.
It should read:
has taken some samples of both washed/undried and washed/dried
fuel and
sealed them in mason
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From: Appal Energy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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I'm looking to see if there is a rudimentary way to check for
water content that can be conducted by garden variety commoners
of the biodiesel persuasion.
Todd
What about the old method used to test for water in
Theoretically a backyard test for water content is to weigh a sample, then
heat to past the boiling point of water, then weigh again. Someone figured
out once that if you do this in a microwave oven, you won't heat (and boil
away or whatever) the biodiesel, only the water, which takes care of
