on 8/11/05 4:56 PM, the skapegoat at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> His main argument seemed to be against losing the > energy in the methanol that was washed out. The "energy" does you no good if your particular thermodynamic cycle can't take advantage of it. What is the cetane rating of methanol? > I'm just wondering if Tickell is so worried about > wasting the methanol by washing it out if there is a > better way of retrieving it. Not much MeOH left in the biodiesel. Most goes into the glycerol phase, particularly if you do a water addition to the glycerol. Best to retrieve it from there. -K _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/