Re: [biofuels-biz] details about mixing pump

2003-03-01 Thread Michael Allen
Dear Murilo, Conventional corrosion needs a freely ionisable solvent such as water for attack to take place. There is some water in methanol and in vegetable oil but it is dissolved and not ionised. (Try measuring the pH to see what I mean!) As a consequence, pumps handling methanol and

[biofuels-biz] details about mixing pump

2003-02-24 Thread Murilo D. M. Innocentini
Hi everyone, Could anybody please tell me if the mixing pump for a small-scale biodiesel processor needs a special requirement in terms of corrosion/chemical attack? Does the base catalyst type affect its performance? It seems from several pictures in the web that even a simple washing maching