Re: [biofuels-biz] Moderate Production System...
Ben, we have a system running here in Cleveland, Ohio that can be assembled very inexpensively. We'd be happy to have you come up and visit and we'll have you pitch in, make a batch, and see how the setup can be assembled back home in WV. Drop me a line at [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 5/15/03 4:39 AM, Ben Shuman at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all I'm sure this question will be quite similar to other questions that have been answered many times in the past, but i'm new and don't hurt me ;) The eastern WV college which I attend is the owner of a 200 acre farm which is currently seeing little use. There is an initiative to use this availible land in ways which would be beneficial to the community both educationally and practically. Current plans, assuming grant funding could be found, is to convert the entire farm into an example of what is possible agricultrually using green alternitives. This includes converting the 1837 farm house and barns to solar power, installing composting toilets, establishing an organic community farm, composting all vegetable matter from campus, maintaining a heritige vegitable garden and orchard, as well as a working examples of uses of alternitive fuels, mainly bio-diesel. As part of this latter goal, we would like for all the equipment to be using fuel from processed waste vegetible oil from the dinning halls on campus (expanding to other local sources as needed). Since we would already be processing the oil and probably making more fuel than needed, we would like to make the excess availible to the community on a non-profit basis. If there is a resource availible which would detail how to make (or purchase) a system which could process a moderate amount of fuel (somewhere above 1000 Gal annually), please let me know. With this information, we could start finding sources of funding for this aspect of the project. If you might know of any locations which might be willing to supply a grant to fund some part of this project (be it solar, biodiesel, composting, capital, etc), that would also be appriciated. Thank you for your assistance. Ben Shuman -- Ray L. Holan Dataworks 1003 Woodlane Dr. Mayfield Village, OH 44143-3321 Phone: 440-446-0003 Pager: 440-733-0874 Database Designs Since 1987 Yahoo! Groups Sponsor -~-- Get A Free Psychic Reading! Your Online Answer To Life's Important Questions. http://us.click.yahoo.com/Lj3uPC/Me7FAA/uetFAA/9bTolB/TM -~- Biofuels at Journey to Forever http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel at WebConX http://webconx.green-trust.org/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/
Re: [biofuels-biz] Proposed Biodiesel Book
on 8/15/02 8:22 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have seasonal work and often have a bit of a breather in the winter. I'm thinking of writing a book on biodesel production from waste fryer oil. It would cover all of the real information I've discovered in the past 5 years. The legal, environmental, financial, chemical, theoretical, and practical aspects of this small business would be covered. Its scope would be narrower than From the Fryer..., but would fill in many of the details that are not explained well there. I feel confident I can develop good information on how to start a small business doing this, and how to position that business in the world. I would call the book Yellow Biodiesel. This is a big project for me, and I don't take it on easily. Chelsea Green publishers say they are interested in publishing it. At this time I'm starting to look for a coauthor. I have no candidates in mind, mostly because I don't know anyone. You and Todd Swearington are the most knowledgable people I know, although I suspect there are others out there. I'm asking if you want to get involved in the project at any level? I defer to your superior knowledge in the chemistry, and probably you can write far gooder than I too. This is a couple of years long project, optimistically. I have the agreement of two other regional commercial small producers to be covered with their technologies in print. By the time the book comes out, there could be many other producers. This book would then be riding a wave of interest. I will have an outline in a few more weeks. I'm just looking for a day off. Let me know if you want more information. Tom, I'd be interested in working with you on this. However, I'd suggest we do an article together first to see if we can work together well enough to tackle the longer project. What do you think? Yahoo! Groups Sponsor -~-- 4 DVDs Free +sp Join Now http://us.click.yahoo.com/pt6YBB/NXiEAA/RN.GAA/9bTolB/TM -~- Biofuels at Journey to Forever http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel at WebConX http://www.webconx.dns2go.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-biz] Purinox Experience
on 8/2/02 4:36 AM, Mike Johnston at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I was only back for a few hours tonight but it was a very productive few hours. You see John Grill from the h2view list sent out some remarks on Biodiesel and it just so happens I had been fooling with the idea of producing a small scale biodiesel production unit a week ago. I went so far as to research it a bit and found that you can even produce your own vegetable oil with an oil press such as this one: http://www.oilpress.com/type55.htm But that is beside the point. Anyway, Jerry Decker on Keelynet posted a piece on the gunnerman patent tonight. This involved mixing diesel with water and a surfactant to produce a fuel for diesel engines. This combination of posts triggered my memory and I remembered that I was out to a refinery in Ohio last year where the company (Lubrizol) was manufacturing a product called PuriNOx, a mixture of diesel, water and a surfactant. They were running the resulting fuel/mixture as a fuel in busses in Cleveland with good results. A production technician that I talked to told me that the mix was 30% diesel, 70% water and the surfactant. http://www.lubrizol.com/PuriNOx/fueltechnology.htm On the flip side, the local Metroparks system here in Cleveland, Ohio tested this product and abandoned it. I'm not sure of the why, but I'm sure they used it, had problems and stopped using it. Biofuels at Journey to Forever http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel at WebConX http://www.webconx.dns2go.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/
