Thanks Keith, I'll check those out.
--- Keith Addison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Does anyone know of anywhere I can find
> information
> >on making vegetable oil itself? The process, etc
> >
> > Clarence
>
> Hi Clarence
>
> Two ways, pressure extraction and solvent
> extraction, usually using
> hexan - this is the commercial method, not for us.
> On pressure
> extraction, do a couple of archive searches, for
> "approtec" and for
> "bielenberg" - these are manual presses:
> http://archive.nnytech.net/index.php?list=biofuel
>
> Lots more information here:
> Oilseed presses
>
http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel_supply.html#Oilpress
>
> There's more to it than just pressing though. Check
> these out:
>
> The Fats and Oils: a General View, by Carl L.
> Alsberg and Alonzo E.
> Taylor, 1928, Food Research Institute, Stanford
> University, California
> First in a series of five Fats and Oils Studies
> published in the
> 1920s by the Food Research Institute. Good overview
> of the subject
> written in layman's terms, covers nature and sources
> of fats and
> oils, properties, technology, production,
> international trade and
> more. Not very much has changed since then, it's
> just grown more
> complex. A clear and informative guide -- useful
> information for
> anyone making biodiesel or working with SVO. Full
> text online at the
> Biofuels Library.
>
http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel_library/fatsoils/fatsoilsToC.html
>
> Oils -- King's American Dispensatory, by Harvey
> Wickes Felter, M.D.,
> and John Uri Lloyd, Phr. M., Ph. D., 1898
>
http://www.ibiblio.org/herbmed/eclectic/kings/olea.html
>
> Chemical Reactions of Oil, Fat and Fat Based
> Products
> http://alfa.ist.utl.pt/~fidel/creac/reac.html
>
> Food Fats and Oils (1994) -- online book (Acrobat
> file, 1.3Mb):
> http://www.iseo.org/foodfatsoils.pdf
>
> Minor Oil Crops, B.L. Axtell from research by R.M.
> Fairman,
> Intermediate Technology Development Group, Rugby,
> UK, FAO
> Agricultural Services Bulletin No. 94, Rome, 1992,
> ISBN
> 92-5-103128-2: Part I - Edible oils, Part II -
> Non-edible oils, Part
> III - Essential oils -- Full text online:
>
http://www.fao.org/inpho/vlibrary/x0043e/x0043e00.htm
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Best
>
> Keith
>
>
__
Do you Yahoo!?
Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, live on your desktop!
http://platinum.yahoo.com
Yahoo! Groups Sponsor -~-->
FREE Cell Phones with up to $400 Cash Back!
http://us.click.yahoo.com/_bBUKB/vYxFAA/i5gGAA/FGYolB/TM
-~->
Biofuel at Journey to Forever:
http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html
Biofuels list archives:
http://archive.nnytech.net/
Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address.
To unsubscribe, send an email to:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
