Re: [biofuel] Dessicants for Ethanol

2003-11-22 Thread Keith Addison

>Yo, tell me to shuddup if I'm beating a dead horse.
>I think molecular sieve is overkill for drying ethanol.
>It can easily achieve 99.9%, and you only need maybe 98%
>to make biodiesel. (My earlier results at 95% were
>anomalous, i.e., probly WRONG :-))

Yo Ken, that's no dead horse, flog away. 98% is much better than 
99.9%... though not as nice as 95%, 'tis true.

>Corn grits are the other extreme -- I'm thinkin maybe
>silica gel or activated alumina. Something that doesn't
>need 300C and 10 torr to regenerate.   -K

Or something really cheap? Zeolite's been made from rice husks, and 
from kitchen wastes, but I don't know how. Please keep us updated on 
your work, both with drying ethanol and with ethyl esters via 
less-than-anhydrous ethanol.

By the way, did you ever see this? 
http://archive.nnytech.net/sgroup/biofuel/11024/1/

Best

Keith


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[biofuel] Dessicants for Ethanol

2003-11-22 Thread Ken Provost

Yo, tell me to shuddup if I'm beating a dead horse.
I think molecular sieve is overkill for drying ethanol.
It can easily achieve 99.9%, and you only need maybe 98%
to make biodiesel. (My earlier results at 95% were
anomalous, i.e., probly WRONG :-))

Corn grits are the other extreme -- I'm thinkin maybe
silica gel or activated alumina. Something that doesn't
need 300C and 10 torr to regenerate.   -K


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