one precaution about burning glycerin: make sure you have plenty of input air for combustion and a good flue for exhaust.
Incomplete combustion can result in the formation of allyl alcohol, acrolein and acrylic acid. All of which are volatile and toxic. Doug Foskey wrote: > Suggest carpet tubes (about 60mm diameter & fairly thick) from the centre of > rolls of carpet. > > regards Doug > > On Tuesday 29 November 2005 12:55, Fred Finch wrote: >> Hi Mike, >> >> I make logs with sawdust apacked in a milk carton. If you have a fire >> that burns hot it will last between 1 to 3 hours. No ram necessary unless >> you like to put in a bunch of extra work for something that you are going >> to burn anyway. >> >> I was thinking of finding large cardboard tubes and using that to pack. >> Might be easier if I can find a source of dry ones. >> >> fred >> >> On 11/28/05, Mike Weaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Anyone know whether I could mix left-over glycerine w/ dried leaves and >>> woodchips and coffee grounds and compress it >>> into a fireplace log with a hydralic ram and a form for fuel for my wood >>> stove? I've burned coffee logs before and it worked fine. >>> >>> I could braze a stell form and use a bottle jack - kind of like a large >>> rammed earth brick. >>> >>> -Mike >>> >>> Appal Energy wrote: >>>> Michael, >>>> >>>> Treat the cocktail with phosphoric acid to recover the FFAs. Then >>>> evaporate the methanol and recover it by condensing. That leaves the >>>> precipitate fertilizer and crudely refined glycerol to condtend with. >>>> >>>> The glycerol is a simple sugar and can be distributed with the graywater >>> >from the wash. Presumably you'll be treating the wash water to recover >>>> the soaps. >>>> >>>> Todd Swearingen >>>> >>>>> mostly i mean what settles out of transesterification todd. >>>>> >>>>> On 11/27/05, *Appal Energy* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>>> <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Michael, >>>>> >>>>> Are you speaking of what settles out of a transesterification? Or >>> are >>> >>>>> you speaking of the remaining glycerol after performing a free >>>>> fatty acid recovery on the same soup? >>>>> >>>>> Todd Swearingen >>>>> >>>>> >Hi folks I haven't started my production yet but I recently >>> realized >>> >>>>> >that I wasn't sure what I was going to do about disposing of the >>> left >>> >>>>> >over glycerine. >>>>> > >>>>> >I live on a small plot on the local reservoir and I can't just >>>>> >>>>> dump it >>>>> >>>>> >or compost it .Any suggestions? what are you guy's doing with it? >>> yes >>> >>>>> >i could just put it in the trash but i have to pay for trash >>>>> >>>>> removal. >>>>> >>>>> >Michael Luich >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> Biofuel mailing list >>>>> Biofuel@sustainablelists.org <mailto: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/ >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>>> - >>>>> >>>>> No virus found in this incoming message. >>>>> Checked by AVG Free Edition. >>>>> Version: 7.1.362 / Virus Database: 267.13.8/183 - Release Date: >>> 11/25/2005 >>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Biofuel mailing list >>>> Biofuel@sustainablelists.org >>>> http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.or >>>> g >>>> >>>> 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/ > > _______________________________________________ > 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/ > > > > -- Bob Allen http://ozarker.org/bob "Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves" — Richard Feynman _______________________________________________ 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/
