------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Small business owners... Tell us what you think! http://us.click.yahoo.com/vO1FAB/txzCAA/ySSFAA/9bTolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Biofuels at Journey to Forever http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel at WebConX http://www.webconx.com/2000/biofuel/biofuel.htm 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/ Received: by srv-b.horsham.vic.wimmera.com.a (mbox shobbs) (with Cubic Circle's cucipop (v1.31 1998/05/13) Fri Aug 3 07:31:21 2001) X-From_: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Aug 3 07:30:53 2001 Received: from srv-a.horsham.vic.wimmera.com.au (srv-a.horsham.vic.wimmera.com.au [203.17.165.3]) by srv-b.horsham.vic.wimmera.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id HAA44471 for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Fri, 3 Aug 2001 07:30:53 +1000 (EST) Received: from n20.groups.yahoo.com (n20.groups.yahoo.com [216.115.96.70]) by srv-a.horsham.vic.wimmera.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id HAA89438 for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Fri, 3 Aug 2001 07:30:41 +1000 (EST) X-eGroups-Return: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: from [10.1.4.55] by c9.egroups.com with NNFMP; 02 Aug 2001 21:32:06 -0000 X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Apparently-To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_2_0); 2 Aug 2001 21:32:06 -0000 Received: (qmail 17371 invoked from network); 2 Aug 2001 21:32:05 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by l9.egroups.com with QMQP; 2 Aug 2001 21:32:05 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO srv-b.horsham.vic.wimmera.com.au) (203.17.165.1) by mta2 with SMTP; 2 Aug 2001 21:32:04 -0000 Received: from wimmera.com.au ([203.29.93.143]) by srv-b.horsham.vic.wimmera.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id HAA44462 for <biofuel@yahoogroups.com>; Fri, 3 Aug 2001 07:30:13 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en To: "biofuel@yahoogroups.com" <biofuel@yahoogroups.com> From: Steven Hobbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MIME-Version: 1.0 Mailing-List: list biofuel@yahoogroups.com; contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivered-To: mailing list biofuel@yahoogroups.com Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2001 07:40:25 +1000 Reply-To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com Subject: [biofuel] Production Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 G'day all. Well I guess I must be the next new kid on the block. I'm a farmer from country Victoria in Australia. I have managed to get my hands on some cold pressed oil from a crop research institute and have been busy making bio-diesel. I have a question to throw open (only one you ask?!!) Do I need to degum the oil prior to reacting with the alcohol & catylist? My impression is that glucosinolates, emzymes, lecithins and all the thick gooey things that are no good for diesels come out with the glycerine (hence the low quality ot the glycerine) and that if the bio-diesel is washed the washing will remove any excess lye, methanol and free fattys. Is this correct? Why I'm asking is that where I live we use a considerable amount of diesel and I honestly think that us big users could be enticed (without a great deal od effort) to replace a percentage of our crude derived distillate with bio-diesel. If the above assumption is correct ( would love to hear from anyone making bio-diesel from cold pressed oil ) I would be interested in setting up my own press, growing and producing bio-diesel and using the meal to fatten livestock. All suggestions, ideas, revelations, critisims (however you spell it!!) are welcome. Regards Steven Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html 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/
