Any chance you could give us some more details or a schematic? this sounds really interesting (though most of us wouldn't have access to a masonry stove just for our biodiesel operation)
Mark At 12:04 PM 1/12/2003 -0500, you wrote: >I've got a couple years experience with burning glycerin. I had to do it, >I've got such a large accumulation of the stuff. I've tried it in a couple of >wood boilers and in a babington burner. The stuff does burn, but it takes >special conditions to keep it going. Basically, without being exact about the >fine details, it takes about 1000 degrees of temperature to keep the stuff >going. Below that temperature and you'll mostly just burn off the methanol >component, leaving a heavy vegetable based "tar" residue. It tried it in a >babington, but it does not burn above about a 25% mix with oil. In a wood >boiler it burns on top of coals well, but when the wood fire dies out it just >accumulates the glycerin without much reduction. > >My current burner has a babington burner running on vegetable oil into a >masonry stove with a separate drip of glycerin onto a hot steel plate. It >burns very cleanly and VERY hot. Absolutely no emissions visible. Now I have >to find out what to do with over 1000000 btu's per hour. > >Tom Leue > >In a message dated 1/11/03 3:59:45 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > > I looked up a few of those commercial oil burners for use with WVO. > > Sounds pretty interesting, though pricey... something to try and find > > secondhand, maybe? > > > > Then I got an email from a farmer nearby, someone who grows oil crops, > > asking about biodiesel production for on-farm use, and about ways to reduce > > waste in the process, all the usual questions people have. We were talking > > about 'glycerin' and ways to deal with it besides disposal... > > > > Does anyone on this list have experience burning their glycerin for shop > > heat or process heat, using some kind of waste oil burner, either one of > > these commercial units or one of the homebuilt ones off of > > Journeytoforever? > > > > I know that burning glycerine can produce some toxic gases if not done > > properly. What is 'properly' in this case? some particular temperature, > > some particular combustion environment? how does one know, using a > > Babington or a waste oil burner to burn glycerine byproduct, that it is > > safe to do so? > > > > Also I do the 'ffa recovery' process sometimes- purifying 'glycerine' with > > an acid to break down the soaps into salt and ffa, and producing a cleaner > > glycerine for degreaser use. Like everyone I know whose tried this, I've > > got a bit of ffa byproduct sitting around in my 'odd chemicals' collection > > now (I believe Ken Provost experimented with using that same ffa in > > soapmaking?). > > > > Todd Swearingen said something once about ffa being a potential fuel source > > for a Babington Burner, and has said somewhere that he thinks it could be a > > fuel in other situations. Anyone experimented with this, or any of you > > engineers out there have any ideas on how well it'll combust and under what > > conditions? (I don't have anything to try burning it in at the moment). > > > > Thanks, > > Mark > > > > > > > > >----------------------------- >Homestead Inc. >www.yellowbiodiesel.com > > > >[Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > >Biofuels at Journey to Forever >http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html >Biofuel at WebConX >http://webconx.green-trust.org/2000/biofuel/biofuel.htm >List messages are archived at the Info-Archive at NNYTech: >http://archive.nnytech.net/ >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/ Biofuels at Journey to Forever http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel at WebConX http://webconx.green-trust.org/2000/biofuel/biofuel.htm List messages are archived at the Info-Archive at NNYTech: http://archive.nnytech.net/ 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/
