Glenn wrote: >I visited the website and found nothing to >discern between their process or the methoxide >method. The only thing I did see that says >anything regarding their process is that it is >done at normal atmosheric pressure. >8 cents a liter is nearly attainable with the >regular methoxide method (using waste oil) and >doing large bulk purchases of materials. >Methanol is available at 1.25 (US) per gallon >retail and bulk purchases of NaOH would put the >price in the 35 cents(US) per gallon range. > >methanol(Inianapolis): >http://ims.brickyard.com/press/1999/fuel-020299.php3 > >NaOH: >http://www.riccachemical.com/catalog/bulk.asp
Their process is different. They use (somewhat iffy) co-solvents and huge amounts of methanol, which makes their cost claims hard to believe. They do say they recover all excesses and so on, but recovering the co-solvents especially would take a LOT of energy, so again their cost claims are hard to believe. And there are quality issues. There are lots of issues. If you check the archive link I gave and other archive material you'll see what the difference is. If you go to the Biofuels-biz archive, there's a lot there about production costs etc, recent discussions. http://archive.nnytech.net/index.php?list=biofuels-biz See the thread "CALL TO ACTION- USDA CUTTING SUPPORT FOR BIODIESEL PRODUCTION" and related threads. http://archive.nnytech.net/index.php?view=1501&list=BIOFUELS-BIZ Best Keith Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ 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/
