Thanks for your answer. What other problems can it cause, exept for a bad start on cold mornings ? I used 40 liters of phosphoric acid on 1000 liters of glop. Of course first I made some mini batches to find out wether it would work and figured out that I needed about 40 liters of 75% of acid.
Met dank en vriendelijke groet, Pieter Koole Netherlands ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kenneth Kron (CEO)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, May 07, 2005 4:28 PM Subject: Re: [Biofuel] A nice experience > That's right Pieter, the phosphoric acid cracked the soap back into > FFA's. In small quantities it wont hurt anything in large quantities it > will hurt something. In the netherlands your primary problem is > probably that FFA's will drive up you jell point on you wont be able to > start your car on a cold morning. > > If you knew how much phosphoric you used you could guess *at the FFA > content of your fuel *of FFA's your running on. If you acid treated the > glycerin and knew how much FFA's you got out of that you'd have another > guess the FFA content of your fuel. > > kk > > Pieter Koole wrote: > > >Some time ago I wrote about my mistake, to not boil off the water out of > >wvo, so I finished up with a lump of soap, glop or whatever we can call it. > >Alltogether it was 1000 liters. Now I decided to try to break the soap with > >phosphoric acit (75%) and let it sit for several weeks. The soap was cracked > >and I was lucky to siphon from the top just over 700 liters of BD. I have > >been driving on it, without any problems. > >Maybe someone out there can do something with this information. > >I have been thinking that I might be driving on FFA's at the moment in stead > >of BD, but it works. > > > >Met vriendelijke groet, > >Pieter Koole > >Netherlands. > > > >_______________________________________________ > >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/ > > > > > > > > > -- > Kenneth Kron > President Bay Area Biofuel > http://www.bayareabiofuel.com/ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Phone: 415-867-8067 > What you can do, or dream you can do, begin it! > Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. > Johann Wolfgang von Goethe <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faust>. > > > _______________________________________________ > 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/ _______________________________________________ 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/