Hi, I was only back for a few hours tonight but it was a very productive few hours. You see John Grill from the h2view list sent out some remarks on Biodiesel and it just so happens I had been fooling with the idea of producing a small scale biodiesel production unit a week ago. I went so far as to research it a bit and found that you can even produce your own vegetable oil with an oil press such as this one: http://www.oilpress.com/type55.htm But that is beside the point. Anyway, Jerry Decker on Keelynet posted a piece on the gunnerman patent tonight. This involved mixing diesel with water and a surfactant to produce a fuel for diesel engines. This combination of posts triggered my memory and I remembered that I was out to a refinery in Ohio last year where the company (Lubrizol) was manufacturing a product called PuriNOx, a mixture of diesel, water and a surfactant. They were running the resulting fuel/mixture as a fuel in busses in Cleveland with good results. A production technician that I talked to told me that the mix was 30% diesel, 70% water and the surfactant. http://www.lubrizol.com/PuriNOx/fueltechnology.htm DING! There went the idea. Why not learn this technology and apply it to BIODIESEL?!?! One gallon of biodiesel would become 3 gallons when mixed with water by this process and this modification should dramatically cut the per gallon cost to consumers and/or be quite valuable to those who wish to produce biodiesel for their own use and it would also then become considerably more environmentally friendly than it already is in the process. General biodiesel info: http://www.afdc.nrel.gov/altfuel/bio_general.html#how Home Brew Biodiesel Genset: http://www.eline2000.com/eline/articles/biogen/biogenset.htm Small Scale Biodiesel Production: http://www.eline2000.com/eline/articles/biodiesel/biodiesel.htm Making bar soap from glycerin (by-product of biodiesel production): http://www.eline2000.com/eline/articles/barsoap/barsoap.htm Regards, MJ
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