These results just in! -- adding a little methanol to your ethanol allows you to use (slightly) wet ethanol.
As some of you know, I've been using a 7:1 mix of absolute ethanol:methanol to get good separation with WVO (difficult with pure ethanol). Now I'm enjoying some much cleaner oil (flush oil from Spectrum Organics, thanks be to Laurie....), so I started wondering if I could relax the dryness requirement a bit. Sure enough -- with the clean oil, the ethanol only has to be 98% dry IF you mix it 6:1 with methanol. The same 98% ethanol with no added methanol fails to give glycerine separation. Also, 95% ethanol doesn't work even when mixed 6:1 with methanol (tho probly with ENOUGH methanol it could). Not earth-shattering, since 98% still requires drying, but not as much as 100%! BTW, oil is 0.4 ml titer, alcohol mix is used 275ml per liter of oil, and catalyst is KOH, 10g per liter of oil. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> FREE COLLEGE MONEY CLICK HERE to search 600,000 scholarships! http://us.click.yahoo.com/iZp8OC/4m7CAA/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/
