Thankyou Camillo, you saved my bacon! :-) And good info to boot, as usual. Jolly good things, those Euro cents.
Best Keith >If it helps to clarify, here are my two (EURO) cent: > >ALL commercial BD produced in Europe is made from raw oil, nobody >bothers to refine (if they can). > >The fatty acid composition you mention has little to do with "quality". >It depends only on the feedstock AND GOES UNCHANGED THROUGH >TRANSESTERIFICATION !!! Therefore it does not say anything on the >"quality" of a biodiesel production. > >Camillo Holecek >Biodiesel Raffinerie GmbH, >Austria > >-----UrsprŸngliche Nachricht----- >Von: Steven Hobbs [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Gesendet: Montag, 17. Juni 2002 15:26 >An: biofuels-biz@yahoogroups.com >Betreff: Re: [biofuels-biz] Re: genetic engineering > > >G'day Keith, >It's Steve Hobbs here. I have only two pieces of reference for my work. > >1 - My humble 18 year old Nissan ute that has now travelled 7000 kms on >a 40% >cold pressed BD & dino diesel mix and appears in all respects to be >travelling fine (perhaps even better that fine, engine rattle has >substantially reduced, cold starts improved, reduced "smoke", etc..the >ute is >due to have injectors removed and inspected by an impartial party) > >2 - I've had a sample of coldpressed BD analysised for fatty acid >composition, which I guess would give an idea of the quality of the fuel >by >what fatty acids are and aren't present in my fuel. >If you could Keith, I'd be interested to compare the fatty acid >composition >of my farm made cold pressed BD to commercially produced BD to see how >the >quality stacks up. >So, here is the analysis > >C16:0 C18:0 C18:1 C18:2 C18:3 C20:0 C20:1 C22:0 > 3.90 4.83 80.54 9.29 0.00 0.37 0.00 >1.07 > >If you could provide me with a commentary on the quality of my fuel, it >would >be appreciated. >Regards > >Steven > > > >snip, snip, snip,etc > >Keith Addison wrote: > > > >When compared with the costs of > > >refining vegetable oils by degumming, neutralisation, bleaching etc., > > >the cost of transesterifying raw oils is not; or should not be; > > >excessive. Steve Hobbs has shown that the transesterification (with > > >washing)of raw oil effectivelty removes the contaminants. > > > > I've seen various conflicting statements about that. Do you have a > > reference for Steve Hobbs's work? > > > > Best wishes > > > > Keith ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Free $5 Love Reading Risk Free! http://us.click.yahoo.com/3PCXaC/PfREAA/Ey.GAA/9bTolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Biofuels at Journey to Forever http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel at WebConX http://www.webconx.com/2000/biofuel/biofuel.htm List messages are archived at the Info-Archive at NNYTech: http://archive.nnytech.net/ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
