Hello Peter Most of the answers to your questions are right at your feet - at the bottom of each message, where it says:
>Biofuel at Journey to Forever: >http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Ethyl-esters biodiesel http://journeytoforever.org/biodiesel_link.html#ethylester Ethanol http://journeytoforever.org/ethanol.html Biofuels Library http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel_library.html For: Mother Earth Alcohol Fuel The Manual for the Home and Farm Production of Alcohol Fuel Optimization of a Batch Type Ethyl Ester Process etc etc For some indication of yields, see yesterday's message from Appal Energy on "Results on Revised 2 Stage Acid/Base Method". http://groups.yahoo.com/group/biofuel/message/13115 There's also good information in this list's message archives on ethyl-esters biodiesel. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/biofuel/messages Best wishes Keith Addison >Hi > >I am an animal nutritionist based in Zambia, Africa. I have >encouraged several of my clients to buy extruders to make full fat >soya and more recently to buy expellers to remove the oil from the >full fat cake to produce high fat soya cake (6-8 % oil) which has >wider nutritional applications. > >Legislation in Zambia does not allow the retailing of crude soya oil >and the going price to the refineries is US$0.5/kg, compared with >US$0.7/litre for fossil diesel. This diesel price is extremely >expensive for us compared with neighbouring countries and is one of >our biggest input costs for agriculture. I can buy NaOH for >US$0.61/kg. > >I am now trying to see if the farmers can further add value to their >crops by making BD. I have downloaded quite lot from the internet >and have ordered the "From the Fryer to the Fueltank" book. > >I would be grateful if someone could help me with the following: > >1. A method (or website reference) to make BD from ethanol rather >than methanol as I believe ethanol is safer to work with. >2. Some help with making ethanol from sugarcane molasses. The >locally available ethanol is very expensive at US$0.97/litre. I can >buy molasses for about US$5.00/ton >3. I would like to know a typical yield of BD per litre of raw >vegetable oil > >Many thanks >Peter. > > >Peter D.M. de Wet >FARMFEED LTD >POSTNET BOX 442 >P/BAG E891 >LUSAKA >ZAMBIA > >E-MAIL : [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >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/ ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Buy Stock for $4 and no minimums. FREE Money 2002. http://us.click.yahoo.com/orkH0C/n97DAA/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/
