Is there anyone out there who is making biodiesel with ethanol on a small scale (under 1,000 gallons a day)?
Is it impracticle to make biodiesel with ethanol on a small scale? I have lived in Mexico, Costa Rica, Peru, Ecuador, St. Vincent & Grenada (Caribbean) over the last six years. Used vegitable oil is either nearly non-existant or non-existant due to high extreme poverty. The french fry oil and other restaurant and processing oils are used in other "recipes" and recycled with "fresh" oil. With the exception of Mexico, I could find no supply of used oil. Methanol is very difficult to obtain without having an industrial permit (not easily obtainable) and certainly not without going to the capital and paying someone off. Ethanol is made in most every village and in back rooms. Due to the tropical environment (abundance of vegetation) ethanol is not a difficult item to produce. Using a molecular seive or collesar to extract the water may very well be an answer to the water mixing with ethanol. So...is it practical to make biodiesel with homemade ethanol (assuming that the water can be extracted from the alcohol first)??? Does anyone out there know? ALSO, if algae is grown next to the ocean, using brine and the natural high temperatures found in the aforementioned countries, can the algae cake (left after extracting the oil) be used as part of the formula to make ethanol? Has anyone tried raising algae? Thank you in advance for any information you may have regarding these matters. Gerry _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Quit now for Great American Smokeout http://us.click.yahoo.com/0vN8tD/9pSDAA/ySSFAA/FGYolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Please do NOT send "unsubscribe" messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
