Re: [Biofuel] sustainable biodiesel from Casto : Big is not beautiful, small is more sustainable
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Re: [Biofuel] sustainable biodiesel from Casto : Big is not beautiful, small is more sustainable
Dear Bob and Keith I am very sorry for the late reply , not able to be as quick as KEITHI interpreted this to mean that the crushed seeds are subjected to the alkali catalyst/methanol hence the seed cake is exposed to the reaction. Here in Brazil nobody like to use Methanol , yes you are correct that the crushed seed is used as feed stock.The mixture of this two methanol and ethanol can be better, but the process for the big scale use methanol , and there is also effort to make the carbohydrate to make ethanol in future.sdPannirselvam bob allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: By using one step simultaneous extraction and esterification , the patented process use crushed seeds to make four products , the BioD , the glycerol , the protein, carbohydrate that seem to deintoxicated for animal feed is now being scaled up to big pilot plant.I interpreted this to mean that the crushed seeds are subjected to the alkali catalyst/methanol hence the seedcake is exposed to the reaction. I've seen papers other papers discuss simultaneous extraction/reaction with soya bean flakes. the problem was that much more methanol is need to extract the oil during the processing into biodiesel, partly due to the moisture content of the beans.Keith Addison wrote: Ricin is a protein which would be denatured by the reaction conditions. Denaturation just means changing the shape of the protein, thus inactivating it. Same as hard boiling an egg more or less. Thanks Bob. But I think the ricin doesn't get into the oil, it's in the husk, and thus in the seedcake. I see James Duke says: "Although it is highly toxic due to the ricin, a method of detoxicating the meal has now been found, so that it can safely be fed to livestock." Ricinus communis, "Handbook of Energy Crops", James A. Duke, 1983 http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/duke_energy/Ricinus_communis.html Maybe they just hard-boil the seedcake.Re the high viscosity:Brazil has 20 years of good research reports about castor oil use as biofuel , which we have the acess .One main problem with castor oil BioD is the viscosity that can be easily solved. That seems to be the main problem. Castor oil is 100 times more viscous than petro-diesel. Castor oil biodiesel is less viscous than the straight oil, but several references say it is still higher than the national standards specification limits. If there is an easy way to make it less viscous or to solve the problem that would be valuable to know. Do you have any further information on this? This is quite interesting on how castor oil works as a lubricant and why it's different to other oils: http://www.georgiacombat.com/CASTOR_OIL.htm CASTOR OIL Castor oil has good lubricity, I wonder if castor oil biodiesel have better lubricity than others. Maybe that could offset the viscosity problem. More and more places are following the French and specifying biodiesel as a lubrication additive in LS diesel fuel. If it had better lubricity you'd need to use less, and the high viscosity wouldn't matter at such a low percentage. Which is where I grind to a halt because the difference between lubricity and viscosity isn't that clear, or at least not to me, especially when you add high temperatures. Anyone know better? Best Keith ___ 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/-- Bob Allenhttp://ozarker.org/bob"Science is what we have learned about how to keepfrom fooling ourselves" � Richard Feynman___Biofuel mailing listBiofuel@sustainablelists.orghttp://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.orgBiofuel at Journey to Forever:http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.htmlSearch the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages):http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ New Yahoo! Messenger with Voice. Call regular phones from your PC and save big.___ 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/
Re: [Biofuel] sustainable biodiesel from Casto : Big is not beautiful, small is more sustainable
Some of my friends here in India (who know more about agriculture than I do) would have me believe that traditionally castor oilseed cakes are allowed to decompose by soaking in a little water for a couple of weeks and then put back into the soil as fertilizer (same as done with mustard oilseed cakes). Apparently it is a very effective organic fertilizer and no ill effects seem to be manifest in the use of the resulting crops. I see no reason to blindly believe that traditional methods are always free of bad effects, however, I understand that castor is a native plant species of India, therefore this practice could well be thousands of years old. May be we have developed an ability to digest ricin :-). Chandan Chandan, that's not far-fetched. Castor oilseed cake does make a good fertiliser. A better way to do it would be to compost it, but the ricin will break down in the soil, there's no danger of your eating ricin with the crops subsequently grown there. By the time the crop roots get there it's not ricin anymore. Indian peasants have long known about many things that science has only belatedly discovered, there are many examples of it. Bad practices usually get sifted out when they don't meet the test of generations, but indeed not always, far from it. The wise and noble peasant is just as much of a myth as the dumb illiterate peasant is. Or rather they both exist. Best Keith Keith Addison wrote: unsnip from previous By using one step simultaneous extraction and esterification , the patented process use crushed seeds to make four products , the BioD , the glycerol , the protein, carbohydrate that seem to deintoxicated for animal feed is now being scaled up to big pilot plant. /unsnip I interpreted this to mean that the crushed seeds are subjected to the alkali catalyst/methanol hence the seedcake is exposed to the reaction. I've seen papers other papers discuss simultaneous extraction/reaction with soya bean flakes. the problem was that much more methanol is need to extract the oil during the processing into biodiesel, partly due to the moisture content of the beans. I'm sure you're right Bob, I have several of those papers. Good explanation, sorry I didn't get it first time. I was looking at other information to check where the ricin was. Thanks! Keith ___ 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/
Re: [Biofuel] sustainable biodiesel from Casto : Big is not beautiful, small is more sustainable
I understand that lubricity has to do with the ability of the oil to maintain a lubricating film under pressure. Viscosity has to do with how readily the oil flows. They are not related. An early detailed study of the properties of lubricants was done by Ricardo Engineering for the British Air Ministry in the 1920's. I'm sure there has been a lot done since. Doug Woodard St. Catharines, Ontario On Thu, 13 Apr 2006, Keith Addison wrote: [snip] ...the difference between lubricity and viscosity isn't that clear, or at least not to me, especially when you add high temperatures. Anyone know better? ___ 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/
Re: [Biofuel] sustainable biodiesel from Casto : Big is not beautiful, small is more sustainable
Ricin is a protein which would be denatured by the reaction conditions. Denaturation just means changing the shape of the protein, thus inactivating it. Same as hard boiling an egg more or less. Keith Addison wrote: Dear Pannirselvam Thanks for your message, sorry for the late reply. Respected and dear Keith and members Thanking you for you to bring here the updated valuable information about Castor as biofuel raw material. The underdeveloped dry semiarid land of the north east of Brazil has been found to be very excellent for Castor cultivation with high productivity. .The Brazilian big oil company PETROBRAS has pa tended process based on the Castor , some more detailed process information , I can send another e mail if there is an need for the same here. Please do, if it's not too much trouble. By using one step simultaneous extraction and esterification , the patented process use crushed seeds to make four products , the BioD , the glycerol , the protein, carbohydrate that seem to deintoxicated for animal feed is now being scaled up to big pilot plant. I wonder how they detoxify it. Ricin is very poisonous. Competing with this big , another big a private oil company , now making investments with social and unfriendly agricultural modern big farming , as this company called Eco diesel is also entering now into the market of Brazilian B2 fuel market, making sound Eco farming model giving land for the poor landless peole to plant Castor , the housing , the eduction ,the state government giving the lands , this private company use the conventional process based on the process of the Brazilian father of BioD , Prof Expedito Parente , who invited me from India to BRAZIL(1983) , for me to dedicate on the the Brazilian biofuel research project. He has the first word patent of bioD including the Castor based process , and also made Biokerosene from castor oil sucessfully proved to be the fuel for airoplane with Military research. Prof Expedito also work with several government and private company to make Biofuel and any one can easily share experience with him about castor oil processing and he has book published too in Brasil The small presss , the small JTF procees , designed to make animal feed , pyrolsed biogas , Biofuel and organic fertlizer to recycle back the bioenrgy for comunity development is our small group research efforts which surely include sunflower , caster oil of the dry lands as these can make sustainable the life of dry semiarid peple with great hope with green energy projects. The pyrolised biogas part of it is beyond me, so far. This integrated project is our dream to make it reality , as we have already made the small press , thanks to Keith JTF , so simple to make , now processing coonut , getting good resutls , future the sunflower and also the castor oil . Which small press it that, Pan? Is it this one? The Sunflower Seed Huller and Oil Press http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel_library/oilpress.html Do you have any photographs of it being used? We believe , there is no need of bioD , as we already can use oil directly upto 25 porcent by blending with petro deisel as this is very cheaper in rural area too , the blending of BIOD from caster , we hope to get the better results . Brazil has 20 years of good research reports about castor oil use as biofuel , which we have the acess .One main problem with castor oil BioD is the viscosity that can be easily solved. That seems to be the main problem. Castor oil is 100 times more viscous than petro-diesel. Castor oil biodiesel is less viscous than the straight oil, but several references say it is still higher than the national standards specification limits. If there is an easy way to make it less viscous or to solve the problem that would be valuable to know. Do you have any further information on this? This is quite interesting on how castor oil works as a lubricant and why it's different to other oils: http://www.georgiacombat.com/CASTOR_OIL.htm CASTOR OIL We are ready to shar the the Brasilian research effort as we believe that we will be the number one in the world to come up with this biofuel , not because of the will of the 8 biilions of liters of alcohol we produce , because the country has the vast land resources nearby by the Africa , and Europe where there is need for the fuel . Yet big is not not beautifuel , That's a very good word! Big is not beautifuel, small is beautifuel, that's great! :-) as Micro Soft Bill Gate too has invested the money in the big Brazilian ethanol plants , but what we need is a sustainable global world based on small scale decentralised biomass refinary and investments for small ecobusiness , not the money of big
Re: [Biofuel] sustainable biodiesel from Casto : Big is not beautiful, small is more sustainable
Ricin is a protein which would be denatured by the reaction conditions. Denaturation just means changing the shape of the protein, thus inactivating it. Same as hard boiling an egg more or less. Thanks Bob. But I think the ricin doesn't get into the oil, it's in the husk, and thus in the seedcake. I see James Duke says: Although it is highly toxic due to the ricin, a method of detoxicating the meal has now been found, so that it can safely be fed to livestock. Ricinus communis, Handbook of Energy Crops, James A. Duke, 1983 http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/duke_energy/Ricinus_communis.html Maybe they just hard-boil the seedcake. snip Re the high viscosity: Brazil has 20 years of good research reports about castor oil use as biofuel , which we have the acess .One main problem with castor oil BioD is the viscosity that can be easily solved. That seems to be the main problem. Castor oil is 100 times more viscous than petro-diesel. Castor oil biodiesel is less viscous than the straight oil, but several references say it is still higher than the national standards specification limits. If there is an easy way to make it less viscous or to solve the problem that would be valuable to know. Do you have any further information on this? This is quite interesting on how castor oil works as a lubricant and why it's different to other oils: http://www.georgiacombat.com/CASTOR_OIL.htm CASTOR OIL Castor oil has good lubricity, I wonder if castor oil biodiesel have better lubricity than others. Maybe that could offset the viscosity problem. More and more places are following the French and specifying biodiesel as a lubrication additive in LS diesel fuel. If it had better lubricity you'd need to use less, and the high viscosity wouldn't matter at such a low percentage. Which is where I grind to a halt because the difference between lubricity and viscosity isn't that clear, or at least not to me, especially when you add high temperatures. Anyone know better? Best Keith snip ___ 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/
Re: [Biofuel] sustainable biodiesel from Casto : Big is not beautiful, small is more sustainable
unsnip from previous By using one step simultaneous extraction and esterification , the patented process use crushed seeds to make four products , the BioD , the glycerol , the protein, carbohydrate that seem to deintoxicated for animal feed is now being scaled up to big pilot plant. /unsnip I interpreted this to mean that the crushed seeds are subjected to the alkali catalyst/methanol hence the seedcake is exposed to the reaction. I've seen papers other papers discuss simultaneous extraction/reaction with soya bean flakes. the problem was that much more methanol is need to extract the oil during the processing into biodiesel, partly due to the moisture content of the beans. Keith Addison wrote: Ricin is a protein which would be denatured by the reaction conditions. Denaturation just means changing the shape of the protein, thus inactivating it. Same as hard boiling an egg more or less. Thanks Bob. But I think the ricin doesn't get into the oil, it's in the husk, and thus in the seedcake. I see James Duke says: Although it is highly toxic due to the ricin, a method of detoxicating the meal has now been found, so that it can safely be fed to livestock. Ricinus communis, Handbook of Energy Crops, James A. Duke, 1983 http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/duke_energy/Ricinus_communis.html Maybe they just hard-boil the seedcake. snip Re the high viscosity: Brazil has 20 years of good research reports about castor oil use as biofuel , which we have the acess .One main problem with castor oil BioD is the viscosity that can be easily solved. That seems to be the main problem. Castor oil is 100 times more viscous than petro-diesel. Castor oil biodiesel is less viscous than the straight oil, but several references say it is still higher than the national standards specification limits. If there is an easy way to make it less viscous or to solve the problem that would be valuable to know. Do you have any further information on this? This is quite interesting on how castor oil works as a lubricant and why it's different to other oils: http://www.georgiacombat.com/CASTOR_OIL.htm CASTOR OIL Castor oil has good lubricity, I wonder if castor oil biodiesel have better lubricity than others. Maybe that could offset the viscosity problem. More and more places are following the French and specifying biodiesel as a lubrication additive in LS diesel fuel. If it had better lubricity you'd need to use less, and the high viscosity wouldn't matter at such a low percentage. Which is where I grind to a halt because the difference between lubricity and viscosity isn't that clear, or at least not to me, especially when you add high temperatures. Anyone know better? Best Keith snip ___ 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/ -- Bob Allen http://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/
Re: [Biofuel] sustainable biodiesel from Casto : Big is not beautiful, small is more sustainable
unsnip from previous By using one step simultaneous extraction and esterification , the patented process use crushed seeds to make four products , the BioD , the glycerol , the protein, carbohydrate that seem to deintoxicated for animal feed is now being scaled up to big pilot plant. /unsnip I interpreted this to mean that the crushed seeds are subjected to the alkali catalyst/methanol hence the seedcake is exposed to the reaction. I've seen papers other papers discuss simultaneous extraction/reaction with soya bean flakes. the problem was that much more methanol is need to extract the oil during the processing into biodiesel, partly due to the moisture content of the beans. I'm sure you're right Bob, I have several of those papers. Good explanation, sorry I didn't get it first time. I was looking at other information to check where the ricin was. Thanks! Keith Keith Addison wrote: Ricin is a protein which would be denatured by the reaction conditions. Denaturation just means changing the shape of the protein, thus inactivating it. Same as hard boiling an egg more or less. Thanks Bob. But I think the ricin doesn't get into the oil, it's in the husk, and thus in the seedcake. I see James Duke says: Although it is highly toxic due to the ricin, a method of detoxicating the meal has now been found, so that it can safely be fed to livestock. Ricinus communis, Handbook of Energy Crops, James A. Duke, 1983 http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/duke_energy/Ricinus_communis.html Maybe they just hard-boil the seedcake. snip Re the high viscosity: Brazil has 20 years of good research reports about castor oil use as biofuel , which we have the acess .One main problem with castor oil BioD is the viscosity that can be easily solved. That seems to be the main problem. Castor oil is 100 times more viscous than petro-diesel. Castor oil biodiesel is less viscous than the straight oil, but several references say it is still higher than the national standards specification limits. If there is an easy way to make it less viscous or to solve the problem that would be valuable to know. Do you have any further information on this? This is quite interesting on how castor oil works as a lubricant and why it's different to other oils: http://www.georgiacombat.com/CASTOR_OIL.htm CASTOR OIL Castor oil has good lubricity, I wonder if castor oil biodiesel have better lubricity than others. Maybe that could offset the viscosity problem. More and more places are following the French and specifying biodiesel as a lubrication additive in LS diesel fuel. If it had better lubricity you'd need to use less, and the high viscosity wouldn't matter at such a low percentage. Which is where I grind to a halt because the difference between lubricity and viscosity isn't that clear, or at least not to me, especially when you add high temperatures. Anyone know better? Best Keith snip ___ 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/
Re: [Biofuel] sustainable biodiesel from Casto : Big is not beautiful, small is more sustainable
Some of my friends here in India (who know more about agriculture than I do) would have me believe that traditionally castor oilseed cakes are allowed to decompose by soaking in a little water for a couple of weeks and then put back into the soil as fertilizer (same as done with mustard oilseed cakes). Apparently it is a very effective organic fertilizer and no ill effects seem to be manifest in the use of the resulting crops. I see no reason to blindly believe that traditional methods are always free of bad effects, however, I understand that castor is a native plant species of India, therefore this practice could well be thousands of years old. May be we have developed an ability to digest ricin :-). Chandan Keith Addison wrote: unsnip from previous By using one step simultaneous extraction and esterification , the patented process use crushed seeds to make four products , the BioD , the glycerol , the protein, carbohydrate that seem to deintoxicated for animal feed is now being scaled up to big pilot plant. /unsnip I interpreted this to mean that the crushed seeds are subjected to the alkali catalyst/methanol hence the seedcake is exposed to the reaction. I've seen papers other papers discuss simultaneous extraction/reaction with soya bean flakes. the problem was that much more methanol is need to extract the oil during the processing into biodiesel, partly due to the moisture content of the beans. I'm sure you're right Bob, I have several of those papers. Good explanation, sorry I didn't get it first time. I was looking at other information to check where the ricin was. Thanks! Keith ___ 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/
Re: [Biofuel] sustainable biodiesel from Casto : Big is not beautiful, small is more sustainable
Dear Pannirselvam Thanks for your message, sorry for the late reply. Respected and dear Keith and members Thanking you for you to bring here the updated valuable information about Castor as biofuel raw material. The underdeveloped dry semiarid land of the north east of Brazil has been found to be very excellent for Castor cultivation with high productivity. .The Brazilian big oil company PETROBRAS has pa tended process based on the Castor , some more detailed process information , I can send another e mail if there is an need for the same here. Please do, if it's not too much trouble. By using one step simultaneous extraction and esterification , the patented process use crushed seeds to make four products , the BioD , the glycerol , the protein, carbohydrate that seem to deintoxicated for animal feed is now being scaled up to big pilot plant. I wonder how they detoxify it. Ricin is very poisonous. Competing with this big , another big a private oil company , now making investments with social and unfriendly agricultural modern big farming , as this company called Eco diesel is also entering now into the market of Brazilian B2 fuel market, making sound Eco farming model giving land for the poor landless peole to plant Castor , the housing , the eduction ,the state government giving the lands , this private company use the conventional process based on the process of the Brazilian father of BioD , Prof Expedito Parente , who invited me from India to BRAZIL(1983) , for me to dedicate on the the Brazilian biofuel research project. He has the first word patent of bioD including the Castor based process , and also made Biokerosene from castor oil sucessfully proved to be the fuel for airoplane with Military research. Prof Expedito also work with several government and private company to make Biofuel and any one can easily share experience with him about castor oil processing and he has book published too in Brasil The small presss , the small JTF procees , designed to make animal feed , pyrolsed biogas , Biofuel and organic fertlizer to recycle back the bioenrgy for comunity development is our small group research efforts which surely include sunflower , caster oil of the dry lands as these can make sustainable the life of dry semiarid peple with great hope with green energy projects. The pyrolised biogas part of it is beyond me, so far. This integrated project is our dream to make it reality , as we have already made the small press , thanks to Keith JTF , so simple to make , now processing coonut , getting good resutls , future the sunflower and also the castor oil . Which small press it that, Pan? Is it this one? The Sunflower Seed Huller and Oil Press http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel_library/oilpress.html Do you have any photographs of it being used? We believe , there is no need of bioD , as we already can use oil directly upto 25 porcent by blending with petro deisel as this is very cheaper in rural area too , the blending of BIOD from caster , we hope to get the better results . Brazil has 20 years of good research reports about castor oil use as biofuel , which we have the acess .One main problem with castor oil BioD is the viscosity that can be easily solved. That seems to be the main problem. Castor oil is 100 times more viscous than petro-diesel. Castor oil biodiesel is less viscous than the straight oil, but several references say it is still higher than the national standards specification limits. If there is an easy way to make it less viscous or to solve the problem that would be valuable to know. Do you have any further information on this? This is quite interesting on how castor oil works as a lubricant and why it's different to other oils: http://www.georgiacombat.com/CASTOR_OIL.htm CASTOR OIL We are ready to shar the the Brasilian research effort as we believe that we will be the number one in the world to come up with this biofuel , not because of the will of the 8 biilions of liters of alcohol we produce , because the country has the vast land resources nearby by the Africa , and Europe where there is need for the fuel . Yet big is not not beautifuel , That's a very good word! Big is not beautifuel, small is beautifuel, that's great! :-) as Micro Soft Bill Gate too has invested the money in the big Brazilian ethanol plants , but what we need is a sustainable global world based on small scale decentralised biomass refinary and investments for small ecobusiness , not the money of big blues for the modern high tech , leading to large scale unemployments and large loans , poverty. You are surely right. Doesn't it also mean that the market in Europe might not be so important because of the fuel miles issue, the unsustainability of using fuel to transport fuel over long distances?
Re: [Biofuel] sustainable biodiesel from Casto : Big is not beautiful, small is more sustainable
Respected and dear Keith and members Thanking you for you to bring here the updated valuable information about Castor as biofuel raw material. The underdeveloped dry semiarid land of the north east of Brazil has been found to be very excellent for Castor cultivation with high productivity..The Brazilian big oil company PETROBRAS has pa tended process based on the Castor , some more detailed process information ,I can send another e mail if there is an need for the same here. By using one step simultaneous extraction and esterification, the patented process use crushed seeds to make four products , the BioD , the glycerol , the protein, carbohydrate that seem to deintoxicated for animal feed is now being scaled up to big pilot plant. Competing with this big , another biga private oil company , now making investments with social and unfriendly agricultural modern big farming, as this company called Eco diesel is also entering now into the marketof Brazilian B2 fuel market, making sound Eco farming model giving land for the poor landless peole to plant Castor , the housing , the eduction ,the state government giving the lands , this private company use the conventional process based on the process of the Brazilian father of BioD , Prof Expedito Parente , who invited me from India to BRAZIL(1983) , for me to dedicate on the the Brazilian biofuel research project. He has the first word patent of bioD including the Castor based process , and also made Biokerosene from castor oil sucessfully proved to be the fuel for airoplane withMilitaryresearch. Prof Expedito also work with several government and private company to make Biofueland any one can easily share experience with him about castor oil processing and he has book published too in Brasil The small presss , the small JTF procees , designed to make animal feed , pyrolsed biogas , Biofuel and organic fertlizer to recycle back the bioenrgy for comunity development is our small group research efforts which surely include sunflower , caster oil of the dry lands as these can make sustainable the life of dry semiarid peple with great hope with green energy projects.Thisintegrated project is our dream to make it reality , as we have already made the small press , thanks to Keith JTF , so simple to make , now processing coonut , getting good resutls , future the sunflower and also the castor oil .We believe , there is no need of bioD , as we already can use oil directly upto 25 porcent by blending with petro deisel as this is very cheaper in rural area too , the blending of BIOD from caster, we hope to get the better results . Brazil has 20 years of good research reports about castor oil use as biofuel , which we have the acess .One main problem with castor oil BioD is the viscosity that can be easily solved. We are ready to shar the the Brasilian research effort as we believe that we will be the number one in the world to come up with this biofuel , not because of the will of the8 biilions of liters of alcohol we produce , because the country has the vast land resources nearby by the Africa , and Europe where there is need for the fuel . Yet big is not not beautifuel , as Micro Soft Bill Gate too has investedthe money in the big Brazilian ethanol plants , but what we need is a sustainable global world based on small scale decentralised biomass refinary and investments for small ecobusiness , not the money of big bluesfor the modern high tech , leading to large scale unemployments and large loans , poverty. In this respect our biofuel list members are more aware , yet we need to come together , give and take our hands to solve the problems , mainly thefrom tropical south countries with the need to duplicate the big scale BIOD busines mistake of the developedcountries as other need not blindly copy the Big one HIGH TECH .Thanking you Pannirselvam Keith Addison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone care to share any experiences with castor oil based biodieselbrewing using small-scale plants? I am told that castor oil dissolvesin alcohols and external heating is eliminated from the process. I'malso hearing conjectures that castor based biodiesel will not freezeeven below -20 deg C. Any pointers to more specific info along these lines?I'll get to my own brewing/learning experiments soon (and I'll startwith proven processes and materials described on J2FE), but we could dowith as much existing wisdom as we can get our hands on, especiallybecause what we want to get into out here is not only for our personalconsumption. Many thanks in advance for any help.ChandanHi ChandanI can't share any experience of using castor oil but I can offer some information which might help. It's been discussed a few times before, I think other list members may have direct experience of it.List archives:http://snipurl.com/oeitSearch results for 'castor'The one disadvantage mentioned, that I haven't seen an answer to, was that crushing the
