Kurt, Take a sport cap off of a 1 liter water bottle and put it on top of a 2 liter PET bottle (soda bottle). Invert bottle. Slice off the bottom. Fill bottle with contents of your one liter reaction. Nest inverted bottle into an appropriate sized jar, quart sized or better. Let settle. After settling, lift PET bottle and gently open the sport cap to allow the glycerin cocktail to drain.
This is essentially a "poor man's separatory funnel." Todd Swearingen > True, but since I only did a single liter test batch I only can > "safely" pull off about .8L using my present methods. Would a retest > of half a liter work? Or should I see how much more I can skim off the > top of the bottom layer? > > -Kurt > > On 11/16/05, *Joe Street* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > Sounds good Kurt but you need to take a liter of your hooch and > treat it as virgin oil and see if any reaction happens with methoxide. > > Joe > > Kurt Nolte wrote: > >> Right, so, I think I may be successful here! >> >> Have a batch that I mixed up a few days ago, using a modified for >> local materials version of the Test Batch processor on the site. >> >> Good clean separation of the two layers when I let it settle in a >> translucent HDPE container. (I have a dozen of them now... I love >> working in the restaurant industry!). >> >> Took 20mL of the top layer, 20mL of room temperature water, stuck >> them in a 50mL vial, and proceeded to shake the crap out of it. >> Shook it up like that for a good 7-10 minutes, enough that I was >> positively certain everything was really mingling about and >> getting social in there. >> >> Set it up on top of the desk shelf over the computer, and set the >> timer for ten minutes, fifteen minutes, and thirty minutes. >> >> Ten minutes passed, and there was visible separation. Cloudy >> water on the bottom, a kinda thickish white layer in the middle, >> and amber-yellow non-hazy liquid at the top. >> >> Fifteen, and the layer in the middle was quite almost gone. >> >> After thirty, it's only barely thicker than paper thin. However, >> there is a band of hazy amber-yellow liquid on top of it; it's >> thin too. Is this normal? >> >> So, have I done it, or do I still need to tweak? >> >> Peace >> -Kurt >> >>------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> _______________________________________________ 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/
