Thanks Keith I remember you giving me all this BUT I never made the connection betweem IV and IODINE VALUE. I GOT IT NOW!!!! Slow but Sure me. Thanks again ~BEST~ Roy
Keith Addison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hi you fine people >I read a lot about IV and have not been able to figure out what it is. >I'm new to all this. >Would someone PLEASE help me out here? >Thanks >Roy Hello Roy I gave you this before: Start here: "Where do I start?" http://journeytoforever.org/biodiesel_make.html#start That's on this page: http://journeytoforever.org/biodiesel_make.html Make your own biodiesel: Journey to Forever Read the whole thing, and then keep going. You'll find this on that page: Iodine Values -- High Iodine Values -- Talking about the weather All you need to know about IV. Best wshes Keith >TLC Orchids and Such wrote: > > >Hydrogenated canola has an IV of around 65 while non hydrogenated has an IV >of around 112. >Does anyone know if the IV in soybean (131) safflower (145) hemp (165) or >sunflower (133) >are altered in any way by the hydrogenation process? > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "bob allen" >To: >Sent: Friday, April 01, 2005 3:24 PM >Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Re: soybeanoil a bad choice for BD making? > > > > > > Howdy Kieth and Jan > > > > > > At the risk of looking foolish as I am an organic chemist, but don't > > have much experience with polymer chemistry- here goes > > > > > > Polymerization is a molecule molecule reaction. A compound with double > > carbon carbon bond is particularly susceptible free radical oxidation. > > Let's call them U. Compounds without carbon carbon double bounds are > > relatively unreactive. We will call these S. Oxygen will activate one > > molecule, U, but for polymerization to occur, the activated molecule > > must encounter another U, then the now covalently bonded pair, must > > encounter another U, and so on. Collisions of activated U with S don't > > result in a reaction. > > > > > > It seems to me that if you "dilute" U with S, that you will reduce > > polymerization. > > > > Or how about this. An activated molecule has only a finite amount of > > time to react. If an activated molecule U "bumps into" another U then > > chain growth continues. But if activated U bumps into S, no reaction > > occurs, other than U reacting internally, which also stops chain growth. > > > > > > Polymer chemists can modulate the number of molecules in a chain (chain > > length) by addition of non polymerizing stuff. > > > > > > Being a right brain guy, this discussion is made more difficult, as I > > can't draw all the pictures which exemplify the points I am trying to > > make. :( > > > > > > The long and short of it (no pun intended) chain length of polymers > > will be reduced by dilution of biodiesel blended from high IV oils with > > low IV oils. Put another way, the time to reach a specified degree of > > polymerization will be extended by dilution. _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wwia.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel archives at Infoarchive.net (searchable): http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/ Roy Washbish Certified Health Coach A HOME BUSINESS & PRODUCTS THAT WORK PRODUCTS & BUSINESS HTTP://WWW.TRIVITA.COM/11393920 --------------------------------- Yahoo! Messenger Show us what our next emoticon should look like. Join the fun. _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wwia.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel archives at Infoarchive.net (searchable): http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/
