Remember that water weighs 1 kilogram per litre, by the original definition of the litre. If Joe's specific gravity for the oil of 0.92 is exact, then the oil weighs 920 grams per litre.
Is the 1.0% supposed to be the amount of lye *solution* per litre of oil (which would raise the question of what concentration), or the amount of actual NaOH? Also remember that the Imperial and U.S. systems are not the same. Doug Woodard St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada On Tue, 18 Oct 2005, Hunter McCormack wrote: > I am trying to understand the conversion of lye quantities from metric to > imperial and I have stumped myself in the process. > > I understand from given data that lye is used in the amount 1.0% of the > virgin vegetable oil weight. It's given that this is approximately 3.5 > grams/liter. This implies that the vegetable oil weighs .35 kg/liter. > There are 3.8 liters/gallon. This means that the oil would weigh 1.3 > kg/gallon or 2.9 lbs/gallon. This is contradictory to the weight > measurements that I have found for virgin vegetable oil that state there are > approximately 7.4 lbs/gallon. What am I missing in this unit conversion? > > Hunter _______________________________________________ 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/
