Nothing new here. Cadalliac had an engine that ran on 4, 6, or 8 cylynders
20 years ago. I looked at a new dodge dakota with a 318 when they first came
out. The dakota had a feul rating of 25 mpg. I just laughed and walked away.
At that time I had a 1984 ford ranger that I put a 345 hp 350
Keith,
Not to worry. The blueprint is in the offing.
As there is but a slight that one being can offer, best to put data in a
public place and let the fish play.
Todd Swearingen
Appal Energy
- Original Message -
From: Keith Addison [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: biofuels-biz@yahoogroups.com
Hi Todd
Keith,
Not to worry. The blueprint is in the offing.
As there is but a slight that one being can offer, best to put data in a
public place and let the fish play.
Todd Swearingen
Appal Energy
:-)
Thankyou! What a sensible person.
I think Ben and others might consider some more of
Hi Sam,
80 years ago my Pa grew a paddock of oats to feed his organic tractors
and now I'd like to do the same. To crop 1000 acres I need approximately
20,000 litres of dino diesel, and to crop 1500 acres I need 30,000
litres.
To date, I have been achieving an extraction of about 30% oil,
Interesting... written in 1999.
http://www.pkarchive.org/crises/OilNonCrisis.html
The energy non-crisis explained
by Paul Krugman
2.1.99
SYNOPSIS: Will there be an energy crisis?
Recently I picked up a book that predicts a long-term glut in the oil
market. Potential oil reserves, the book
Hi Steven,
A very nice web site, congratulations.
Hakan
At 10:47 PM 5/16/2003 +0930, you wrote:
Hi Sam,
80 years ago my Pa grew a paddock of oats to feed his organic tractors
and now I'd like to do the same. To crop 1000 acres I need approximately
20,000 litres of dino diesel, and to crop
Wind has its own unique set of pros and cons like everything else...and
I see it as a vital component to a sustainable and balanced energy
portfolio for the world. Unfortunately, wind's geographic distribution
and intermency make it difficult to integrate into electrical grids
whose cost and
Hakan,
Wind/Solar-Hydro Integration is a big subject at DOE EREN (Peter
Goldman)...but otherwise is getting ignored even by agencies like the
one I work for. You are right but the contentious politics and costs of
building large reservoirs is so high that pumped storage is nothing but
a small
White smoke is a visual sign of incomplete combustion. Generally where
biodiesel is concerned, this is caused by either poorly dried fuel, or
poorly converted fuel, meaning that the biodiesel is actually a mix of
esters and glycerides, with a quotient of H2O.
Todd Swearingen
- Original
Depends upon what you call large. Anything glycerin accumulating from over
50 gallons per week of biodiesel production should be given or sold to the
nearest glycerin refiner, after FFA recovery, of course.
Todd Swearingen
- Original Message -
From: Kim Nguyen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To:
People are still using kitchen blenders?
Brings to mind the war time observationist thought process:
What a perfectly good waste of a human (or blender).
Blenders quickly rust, seize up and upon first use become perfectly useless
relative to food processing.
I'll take time in a bottle over
Hello all
We have been testing Alecs Fool Proof process and find it to work after
several long and time consuming testings (adding lye/methanol several times
and removing the glyrein).
We have been trying to titrated the oil after the acid step but the results
seems to be very unreliable as
Tomas,
I had a similar problem with WVO from a restaurant when I tried the
foolproof recipe allthough it worked fine with virgin oil. I had some
sort of success using the two stage acid based version with a recipe found
in the following website (but it requires titrating AND determination of
Dear Tomas
I have been using a dirty commercial kitchen oil,
which when titrated with a 0.025M NaOH solution
consumes 6.8cc before it reaches pH 8.5 via
Phenolphthalein. The total NaOH for a small batch
therefore is 6.8g per L plus 3.5g giving 10.3g
per L oil. This seemed high but after Keiths
Dear Gumpon
How much H2SO4 are you adding - I have 97% here
and 85% H3PO4 (Ortho-Phosphoric Acid).
Regards
Mark
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Hello Todd
I don't think I agree with you about this.
People are still using kitchen blenders?
Brings to mind the war time observationist thought process:
What a perfectly good waste of a human (or blender).
Blenders quickly rust, seize up
Never had either of those happen. The seals swell
Hello Tomas
Hello all
We have been testing Alecs Fool Proof process and find it to work after
several long and time consuming testings (adding lye/methanol several times
and removing the glyrein).
We have been trying to titrated the oil after the acid step but the results
seems to be very
Hello Mark
You're doing single-stage and Tomas is asking about the acid-base
two-stage process, different ballgame.
Dear Tomas
I have been using a dirty commercial kitchen oil,
which when titrated with a 0.025M NaOH solution
What's an 0.025M NaOH solution? Same as 0.1%? Have you seen this?
Dear Mark
Not so much, just to make the washing water a little bid acidic. In
my production of 100 liters biodiesel I use about 30 literes of washing
water and add about 40 cc of 97% conc. sulfuric acid. You don't have
to add acid in your second washing water.
Regards
mark schofield
Dear Gumpon,
OK, 100L of raw methyl ester plus 30L of water
plus 0.04L 97% conc H2SO4 for the first was. Just
30L of regular tap water for the second and third
wash? How long do you wash it for in the system
you have developed and what does it look like
once it has been washed?
I'm trying to
I think we are all in agreement that white smoke is typically caused by
either
1) water/coolant in the combustion chamber from either the fuel or coolant
leak
or
2) incomplete combustion of the fuel in the chamber
In this case, with unheated straight vegoil (SVO), there is a good chance
that the
Keith,
I have not made biodiesel myself, but have researched it a lot. Can you
check my figures as to the available heat from the glycerin?
Heat capacity of oil ~ 0.5 BTU/lb/F
Heat of combustion ~ 12-14 BTU/gal (depending on which oil)
Density of water ~ 8lb/gal
Density of oil ~
Interesting... written in 1999.
http://www.pkarchive.org/crises/OilNonCrisis.html
The energy non-crisis explained
by Paul Krugman
2.1.99
SYNOPSIS: Will there be an energy crisis?
Recently I picked up a book that predicts a long-term glut in the oil
market. Potential oil reserves, the book
As Hakan has said storage of wind generated electricity will be the
hardest problem to solve if we are to rely on it for our power needs.
Currently electricity generated by wind comprises a small fraction of
total MW's produced, so it can be easily absorbed into the current
system. When wind
Hi Steven,
A very nice web site, congratulations.
Hakan
At 10:47 PM 5/16/2003 +0930, you wrote:
Hi Sam,
80 years ago my Pa grew a paddock of oats to feed his organic tractors
and now I'd like to do the same. To crop 1000 acres I need approximately
20,000 litres of dino diesel, and to crop
try 3% white spirits (turps) or similar added to your svo (well mixed in)
before adding to your bought diesel. I've heard it works well.
In this case, with unheated straight vegoil (SVO), there is a good chance
that the higher viscosity of a 30%SVO mix is not allowing the complete
combustion of
Hello Andreas
The anwser on your question
Could you please explain to me what you mean with adding lye/methanol
several times and removing the glyrein?
We started to add 3.5 g lye/methanol/litre oil the glycerin did not separate
at that amount we added 0.75 g lye/methanol/litre methanol only
At the Methanex website they claim the price of methanol is $US 0.82 a
gallon. Why can't a buy a 50 gal drum of the stuff for less than $115.
stan
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IDKFS, but, I would be willing to bet, that the $0.82 is the bulk ( several
hundred gal. ) price, and the cost of the drum ( returnable? ), and
shipping, is not calculated in.
Greg H.
- Original Message -
From: Stanley Baer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday,
Hello Tomas
Thanks Keith for your info and clearifying the two stage process and the
amounts of lye to be used. We have been testing Alecs two stage process at
three diffreent occasions and we have followed the instructions very
closely. The result with 3.1 g lye/ litre oil is not splitting the
If you buy a tanker load of methanol, you can get it for $.82 a gallon
Stanley Baer wrote:
At the Methanex website they claim the price of methanol is $US 0.82 a
gallon. Why can't a buy a 50 gal drum of the stuff for less than $115.
stan
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akowalkowski05 wrote:
try 3% white spirits (turps) or similar added to your svo
(well mixed in) before adding to your bought diesel. I've
heard it works well.
In this case, with unheated straight vegoil (SVO), there is a good chance
that the higher viscosity of a 30%SVO mix is not allowing the
this brings up a point that others have raised...and that is if the
small bio-diesel producer can somehow form an umbrella co-op type
organization that has greater buying power so that potentially methanol
can be purchased in bulk and distributed at a much lower rate than the
current $2.00/gallon
I wish I could get it for $115/50 gallons...lol.
Brent
From: Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com
To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [biofuel] price of methanol
Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 12:22:09 -0400
If you buy a tanker load of methanol, you can get it for $.82 a
So who all wants to go in on a tanker of MeOH?
- Original Message -
From: Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, May 16, 2003 12:22 PM
Subject: Re: [biofuel] price of methanol
If you buy a tanker load of methanol, you can get it for $.82 a gallon
Stanley
this brings up a point that others have raised...and that is if the
small bio-diesel producer can somehow form an umbrella co-op type
organization that has greater buying power so that potentially methanol
can be purchased in bulk and distributed at a much lower rate than the
current $2.00/gallon
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