Laboratories such as INEEL usually develop industrial processes, obtain a
patent for the process, then sell it to the highest bidder for continued
funding of the laboratory. In this case, I would bet that the purchaser was
one of the seven sisters, who promptly buried the book as deep as they
Manolo is right in that the sky does not end at the Big River boundary. The
laws of nature (thermodynamics) tell us that mass flows always go in the
direction of the more to the less. Heat moves from the hotter to the colder,
water flows from the higher to the lower, and unfortunately, pollution
You will pardon a newcomer's dumb questions. What is high-FFA?? (FFA?)
Andy
- Original Message -
From: Keith Addison [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com
Cc: biofuels-biz@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Monday, January 21, 2002 5:23 PM
Subject: [biofuel] ethyl esters
Interesting... so
Thank you, Keith. I am beginning to feel confident enough about this process
to attempt my first BD test scale production with cooking oil from the
market. I am also, however, trying to determine whether it will be possible
to obtain BD from raw soybean oil from the factory, and exactly which
I was considering using the unrefined/unprocessed soybean oil contained in
the paste-like byproduct from the oil plant, which they sell to soap-makers.
There is still 40% pure oil in this product, and all I have to do is
separate the oil from the solids by either filtering or distillation in
