methanol and castor oil are miscible because castor oil is slightly more polar than other oils/fats. Therefore I would think that glycerin would also be soluble in castor oil.
Logan vilas wrote: > Would glycerin dissolve in the castor oil or not? If not then castor oil > added to glycerin cocktail should cause the methanol to dissolve in it and > then the methanol can be recovered water free from the castor oil instead of > separating it from the glycerin. It would take much less energy to recover > it in that method. Verses cooking it out of the glycerin. > > Logan Vilas > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of bob allen > Sent: Saturday, September 30, 2006 2:16 PM > To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org > Subject: Re: [Biofuel] new alcohol ideas > > Howdy Jason, there would be no advantage. In the ethanol/water/castor oil > scheme, one mixes E/W/C. > only ethanol dissolves in the castor oil. then heating the C/E mix to about > 80 degrees C separates > the ethanol from the castor oil. > > what this does is get around the problem of the azeotrope of ethanol/water > which is the lowest > boiling component of a mix of water/ethanol. You can't separate the last 5% > of water from ethanol > via distillation. > > for glycerin this isn't an issue, just heat the stuff to close to 300 > degrees C. anything that boils > off at a lower temp is impurity, after is glycerin. (short form of > discussion) > > > Jason& Katie wrote: >> i just had a bizarre idea. someone please argue with me on this, but if >> glycerine is categorized as an alcohol, would it work to use castor oil to > >> purify it, the same as ethanol? ideas?comments? >> Jason >> ICQ#: 154998177 >> MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> >> > > -- Bob Allen http://www.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/
