Ryan, Once, a bit over six years ago, I rather hastily put together a gallon of what I thought would be biodiesel from hempseed oil. Sure enough, it glopped out. I racked my brain as to what went wrong and could come up with nothing, believing that I'd done everything to the tee.
Over the next year, we processed more than 2,000 gallons from the same stores of hempseed oil. Not a problem. The only possible reason for one small failure out of so much volume? Human error. It happens. Taking notes helps reduce the possibilities of such. Racking your brain often helps resolve others. You might ask yourself what it was that made you think your first go 'round was too soapy. Todd Swearingen Ryan Pope wrote: > I attempeted to post this last week. Didn't come through due to > glitches of some sort. > > *-*-*-*-*-*-* > I made my first small batch last Wednesday, and it turned out OK; I > thought it had a little too much soapiness, so I reprocessed it. 100ml > methnol, 3.5g NaOH, 1.5hrs, as per directions. After settling, I had a > nasty lump of gelled stuff. I thought maybe it was the cold, it did > get down to 45-50 F that night. Brought the jug indoors overnight. > Nope, still thick. Better, but still gooey. > > Anyway, can you overprocess? What happens if you do? > > Thanks, > > Ryan > > *-*-*-*-*-*-* > > SINCE THEN; > > I'm thinking it was all the container I used. It was a LDPE container, > and I think the finished diesel dissolved some plastic that the SVO > the first time didn't. Add heat, and it dissolved even more. My > original question is still valid though...can you OVERprocess? And > what happens? > > > And my second small trial batch is settling right now...so far so good. > > Ryan > > _________________________________________________________________ > Don’t just search. Find. Check out the new MSN Search! > http://search.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200636ave/direct/01/ > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >_______________________________________________ >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/ > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >Internal Virus Database is out-of-date. >Checked by AVG Free Edition. >Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.5.1/327 - Release Date: 4/28/2006 > > _______________________________________________ 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/
