I ran some WVO into which I added a measured amout of water through a slow filter filled with silica beads and it worked pretty well removing the water. I haven't yet tried heating it to see if it pops but visually it looks like it worked.
-Mike Manzo, Emil wrote: > Greetings. Has anyone tried using an absorptive polymer to remove > water from WVO? It is a cheap product that is used in sandy soils to > increase water retention for plants. It is also used in products that > remove water from the bottom of fuel tanks at gas stations. I think > one brand is called “water sock”. The WVO could be pumped through a > vessel containing the crystals as it was being filtered. The crystals > expand with water and turn to “jello” then they can be dried out in > the sun and reused. There is a similar product used in diapers but > that is starch based and wouldn’t work as well. If it works, we might > save time and energy removing water. Am I making sense to anyone? > > Regards, > > Emil > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >_______________________________________________ >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/ > > > _______________________________________________ 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/
