Harry, I think you mentioned to me the islanders drive around their diesel engined vehicles with local crushed oils with no need for conversion. What is the FA profile for these oils? Steven
gjkimlin wrote: > Steve and I have been discussing the breeding of the perfect oil > plant. I will do some comparisions of the FA content of cultivars > where the FA composition is known. Meanwhile I'll start comment with: > carbon chains of between 12 and 16 preferably monounsaturates i.e. > one double bond. My reasoning is that much shorter and the Cetane > falls and combustion temperatures rise(more NOx)and much longer and > the cloud point gets too high. Any thoughts out there? > Regards from Harry. > PS If you don't see it soon remind me to post the results of the use > of recycled Dairy separators and the enhanced acid method for rapid > conversion of FFA's. I did forget to post the graph of FA > reduction /Time from the titration series on the acid catalyst method. > > 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/ 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/
