Was trying to read "down thread" messages inreply to a question about "glycerine-methanol" seperation and yahoo wouldn't show them to me...
Anyway, the extraction of methanol from "glycerine" (or glycerine soap) is basically the same process as seperating ethanol from water. I'd look carefully into purifying the glycerine first and expecting the methanol to come with it as it seems that you'd create other issues by heating your byproducts to the temperatures necissary to seperate methanol from the glyvcerine. Thus the mention of a vacuum distillation apparatus... (this already sounds like more trouble than it's worth considering the cost of methanol) Might I mention that the soap/glycerine/methanol byproducts will burn in a waste oil stove? Or that they can simply be composted? I may be new here, but aside from the potential of developing a pathalogical desire for a "perfect no-waste system" (impossible anyway IMO) is it possible that you could RUN past the "diminishing returns" point? AllanD ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Yahoo! Domains - Claim yours for only $14.70 http://us.click.yahoo.com/Z1wmxD/DREIAA/yQLSAA/FGYolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/biofuel/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
