Would be interesting to to have that methane cleaned up and processed into methanol. :) A small bio-source of methanol ..... mmmmmm
Anyone know of a small methanol processing unit? James Slayden On Thu, 12 Dec 2002, girl mark wrote: > It seems a little backwards to do this- after all the methanol is > reformulated from methane, no? > > I'm reading a great book called 'a chinese biogas manual' about methane > digesters. they're mostly talking about large-scale (large family or work > group within a large rural commune). My friend the UC Davis grad student > studying digesters (and building them, and teaching about them, and > probably thinking about little but anaerobic bacteria and how to make > them > comfortable!) uses a small-scale design that's based on an old water > heater > as a demo digester. DOn't know how much comes out of one of those but I > think it's signficant. So there's fairly easy ways of making methane > without resorting to chemical cracking of hydrocarbons when the bacteria > can do it for you. One of my buddies wants to build one to digest excess > glycerine from biodiesel. > > Mark > > > > At 12:44 AM 12/13/2002 -0500, you wrote: > >Well I have been reading about hydrocarbon cracking on the hobbicast > >list and trying to stir up some information. So I was thinking about > >biodiesel and wondering if you could do the same with it. Perhaps I can > >burn biodiesel in my melting furnace! :) > >Or perhaps biodiesel could be broken into thinner chains to make it's > >gel point lower. My sister is a chemistry major I'll have to ask her. > > > >Shameless endorsement: hobbicast > ><<http://infoarchive.net/index.php?list=hobbicast>http://infoarchive.net/index > php?list=hobbicast> > >is archived at the > >infoarchive <<http://infoarchive.net/>http://infoarchive.net/>, as well > as > >12 other groups. > > > >Glenn wrote: > > > > >Martin, > > > > > >Time to dig out the organic chemistry books again > > >:) > > > > > >In theory it is possible to break methyl esters > > >or any other hydrocarbon chain into smaller CH4 molecules. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >-- > >--- > >Martin Klingensmith > ><http://nnytech.net/>http://nnytech.net/ > >http://infoarchive.net/ > > > > > > > >Biofuel at Journey to Forever: > ><http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html>http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel. > tml > > > >Biofuels list archives: > ><http://archive.nnytech.net/>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 the > ><http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/>Yahoo! Terms of Service. > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > 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 the Yahoo! Terms of Service. > 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/
