on 12/1/03 6:34 AM, Dan Maker at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Any regularity on this Ken? From reading > your notes, it sounded like you ended up > with more soap than BD... > >> OK, Dan -- I'm gonna tell you my story once (even tho it's well documented in scores of messages in the archives), and then I want to hear yours, including why someone who's never made methyl esters is so persistent and argumentative on the subject of ethyl esters. I use a mix of about half and half WVO from local restaurants, and flush oil from the sources you've been hearing about. It runs right around 1ml titr. with 0.1% NaOH soln. While I had a 55-gal drum of fuel-grade ethanol (anhyd. EtOH with 2% gasoline denat- urant, Parallel Products), I used it for over a year in a 5:1 mix with methanol, making most of the fuel for my '99 TDI Beetle. I wash the fuel well and gently to remove the soap, but there's PLENTY of good biodiesel left over. Pure ethanol will only work with scrupulously clean and dry oil, and I've found it easier to include some methanol than to refine the oil. Now that my drum is empty, I'm back to methanol for my biodiesel. I've contacted the alcoholis- agas fokes to see if I can get a closer source of EtOH. Meanwhile I'm using ethanol in a series of experiments trying to find less rigorous approaches to dehydrating it -- so far no luck. Unless methanol is included at around 10% minimum, it appears the ethanol must be 198 proof. Now your turn -- what is Dan Maker's interest in biodiesel, and what are his future plans regarding its manufacture and use? Are you ever planning on actually MAKING some, or are you more the armchair theoretical type? Or maybe just trolling? -K ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Buy Ink Cartridges or Refill Kits for your HP, Epson, Canon or Lexmark Printer at MyInks.com. Free s/h on orders $50 or more to the US & Canada. http://www.c1tracking.com/l.asp?cid=5511 http://us.click.yahoo.com/mOAaAA/3exGAA/qnsNAA/FGYolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/index.php?list=biofuel 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/
