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] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Buy Stock for $4 and no minimums. FREE Money 2002. http://us.click.yahoo.com/k6cvND/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/
