Phillip, What region are you in? I am in Massachusetts.
Andy On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 05:11:46 -0800 (PST), Phillip Wolfe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andy, > > Yes. In my region there are medium sized soap > manufacturing companies who specialise in natural > handsoaps, custom soaps, cosmetics. They take > supplies of refined glycerin above 90 per cent but you > are correct in that the purer the better; so a 99 > percent is even better. The other preference is > colourless and odorless in order to add in their own > perfumes and colors. > > > --- Andrew Cunningham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Has anyone had any luck selling glycerine that had > > been refined in the > > 95-99% range? Secondly, does anyone here refine it > > to that extent? > > > > Andy > > > > > > On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 06:35:22 +0100, > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > When I start my homebrew biodiesel refining with > > that > > > 150 lbs of WVO I've been discussing, I would to > > > circulate the byproduct crude glycerin into > > > distillation and purify it to about 90% purity or > > > better. The reason is that I would like to > > "recycle" > > > and send the glyerin to a local natural soap bar > > > manufacture nearby. Am I taking this too far? > > > > > > You are not meaning boling the glycerine and then > > > condensing it, are you? this can't be done at > > atmos- > > > pheric pressure. Glycerine will crak just a few > > degC > > > below atmospheric bpT, so glyc distillation must > > be > > > done under lower than atmospheric pressure. > > > OTOH, distilling away the methanol is reasonable, > > as > > > for the low energy input and a valuable fossil > > chemical > > > recovery. > > > > > > Cheers, Aleks > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Biofuel mailing list > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > http://wwia.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/biofuel > > > > > > Biofuel at Journey to Forever: > > > http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html > > > > > > Biofuel archives at Infoarchive.net (searchable): > > > http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/ > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Biofuel mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://wwia.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/biofuel > > > > Biofuel at Journey to Forever: > > http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html > > > > Biofuel archives at Infoarchive.net (searchable): > > http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/ > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > _______________________________________________ > Biofuel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://wwia.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/biofuel > > Biofuel at Journey to Forever: > http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html > > Biofuel archives at Infoarchive.net (searchable): > http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/ > _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wwia.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/biofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel archives at Infoarchive.net (searchable): http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/
