What processors are the commercial producers using? I need to find a sorce
for one for a feasability study.
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, 1 litre in 100 litres of fuel should be a
minimum to get any benafit.
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with no
sepparation, just a light brown soup that jells when it cools.
the oil itself seams to stay quite thick up to 120-130f. Is there anything
that could be in the oil to make it do this?
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I just washed another batch. I did a shake test and the water sepparated
within minutes. The water was clear, but the oil remains cloudy. My last
batch cleared almost imediately after heating the washed product. Any ideas?
Brent
P.S. What are the symptoms of too much and too little lye
the
water, I found 45 gallons of cream. I have reheated it to over 100F but it
hasn't broke yet. Any Ideas?
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Just a note from my last post. I took the temp of my failure to 140F and
then had a brainwave to add more methanol. I added 4 liters to the 45
gallons. I had almost imediate separation down to about 4 from the top. A
thin layer also was floating on top. Any ideas?
Brent
I noticed on my last batch, that if I heat the was prosess up a bit, that it
seems to work better(no white deposits). Is this a good way to do it? My
wash water comes staight out of the well and is very cold.
Brent
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methanol,(18.9 litres for 80 litres of oil) and mixed for one hour and 15
minutes. Could the problem be not enough lye?
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the cottage cheese. I took it to 100F and everything cleared up. I then took
the washed deiesel and shook it in a jar of water. It started to sepparate
almost immediately. Any coments? Did I just need to use warm water instead
of cold?
Brent
this problem?
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methanol durring the mixing process.
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thinking that a paper coffee filter is over kill(not to mention slow). Would
a nylon stocking work?
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found greasy looking white deposits floating in it. I stained it and there
is a light film floating on top. It also isn't as clear as when I first made
it.
Is it usable? Can I just wash it again? Any other solution?
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50%, 33%, and a 20% blend. At -20c the 50% got thick but didn't solidify or
sepparate, and the other two were ok.
Are these results consistant with what is expected from a good home brew
fuel?
Brent
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91 GMC 6.2
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Will traditional anti-gel work to use bio diesel in -40 weather, or is
someone working on one that will?
Brent
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Subject: Re: [biofuel] Home Heating with BioDiesel
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 19:46:16
All I can say is ...GOOD. But then I am a promoter of organic farming. I
like to hear that chemical fertilizers are becoming cost prohibative.
Brent
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For me it's a no brainer. There is so much waste wood around that I could do
all my heating with it, for free, and have wood left over.
Brent
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Subject: [biofuel] Problem #1: How much does heat
My last post must have got lost. I was asking about the BTU content
of 1 litre of propane, and bio diesel?
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Does anyone have the numbers on BTUs available in 1 litre of
propaine, diesel and bio diesel?
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alot of
money and I believe in using what is thrown away to make things, so the 45
gallon drum system is what I will be using.
You make a good point.
Brent
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I will stick to using a battery charger to make hydrogen. I am not a fan of
anything radioactive.
Brent
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Subject: [biofuel] Water Radiolysis
Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:21:14 -0400
Here something about
I will reply to one of the questions. No I do not support nuclear energy. I
don't think it is clean energy when it produces waste that is hazardess for
hundreds of years.
Brent
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183 cars/sq km
who would be a bigger polluter in that case? And do people have as
far to drive in a small country? Europeans that visit here can't get
over how big this country is and how far you need to drive to get
anywhere. Just a thought.
Brent
--- In biofuel@yahoogroups.com, Keith
why the price between two cities 25 miles away are up
to .20/litre different? Did he answer why the highest price in the province
is the city with the refinery? There is alot going on that few people know
or even care about.
Brent
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.
Getting people thinking is a first step, and sometimes it's not having the
right answer that's important, but asking the right questions.
Brent
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in eastern Canada, when we have
more oil here than the middle east? Why can I drive into the states and buy
Canadian products like gas and lumber cheaper than I get it here?
Just a few questions.
Brent
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Heard a statistic on the radio today. Americans now have more cars than
drivers. Each household has 1.9 cars and 1.8 drivers. Interesting.
Brent
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more I think.
Anyone making and using biodiesel should be driving past gas stations
laughing...lol.
Brent
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Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2003 14:59:19 -0500
Someone mind
due to an
unusual habit of the processing plant having a breakdown every fall. When I
priced some in may it was about .80/liter, but the normal price should have
been about .50-.60/litre. This is from Brentag.
Brent
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I am assuming that is what was meant in the original post. What would the
process be for making diesel from butter? I assume it would be the same as
for WVO.
Brent
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Subject: Re: [biofuel] milk
Well, the price of gas went up again, now at .81.9/litre. The
reason? The blackout in the east. Well our refineries here in the
west never had a blackout. What's up with that? Someone is getting
screwed
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Is the process the same? Your link didn't work for me.
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Subject: Re: [biofuel] milk fat
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 00:27:07 -0700
Yes.
http://www.ecoliving.co.nz/Ecoliving/mag/issue4
My first batch was .70/litre, my second was .60/litre, and my next batch
(110 litres) will cost .30/litre, which is about$1.20/ US gallon. Here the
price of petolium diesel is about .70/litre. The main cost is the methanol.
Brent
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can. People look at me funny when I say
to
try bio diesel, and I don't have a diesel myself yet. If I wanted to run
a
oil furnace and a diesel vehicle, I would have a hard time to get enough
WVO
from the city where I live near.
Brent
I think, Brent, that that is only true for the same
remove all the bins from
the retaurant and I would have to replace them with my own. I am only one
person with very limited resourses, not in a position to put a WVO bin
behind every restaurant.
Brent
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enough WVO
from the city where I live near.
Brent
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Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2003 02:35:39 -0400
Hi,
I mostly see Biodiesel being discussed as an automotive
with very few
regulations and very little desire to change.
Brent
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to. Just a
comment and a non-solutionlol.
Brent
you wrote:
Good points, in my view, except you need to clarify Canadian Dollars
or American.
Your price appears to be in Canadian Dollars (since I found a news
story mentioning about 75 cents Canadian per Liter which translates
in Saskatchewan
today is $3.69/ gallon. I don't drive anywhere I don't need to. Just a
comment and a non-solutionlol.
Brent
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Would that be from too much lie? I am using 4.5g/litre.
Brent
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Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2003 10:28:08 -
Brent most likely soaps, hope that helps. Answered since
Did another batch and got that thin layer between the glycerine and
the diesel. Remind me again what it is. Thanx
Brent
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be melting, but we still get a few
weeks of -40 deg every winter.
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Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2003 19:22:10 -0500
Your premise is based upon no net polar shifts throughout history
Yes it is the product from Saskatchewan.
Brent
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Subject: Re: [biofuel] bio diesel conditioner
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 07:34:14 -0700
Is this the product from Saskatchewan?
On Wednesday
They do reccomend using it at a .01% level. I can't see it doing any harm at
that low of a level. I also don't see much of a benafit either. But seems
people will buy it at $15/l rather than buy BD from me...go figure. Here is
the url http://www.milliganbiotech.com/index.html
Brent
From
My BD reads 7-7.5, if they are saying that they have a canola based product,
then they must be adding something like methanol to get that high of a
reading. I don't understand your comment.
Brent
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it said it does make a difference in his truck. Any
thoughts on this would be appreciated.
Brent
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I would be interested in the picture. I also am trying a similar process,
but using silica acrylate.
Brent
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Hello all
of a demand for such a service.
Brent
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Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2003 22:03:57 -0700 (PDT)
Hello all,
The problems associated
Just passing along what I have found. I found a titration kit in a
wine making supply store. So if your looking for one, try there.
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Brent S wrote:
I had a 1975 monte carlo with an LS6 454 engine. By using it's vacuum
guage,
it got the lowest vacuum at 65 mph. Run bellow that speed and you could
see
the gast guage move.
Brent
I had a 73 Chevelle with a 350, Doug Thorley headers
totally inaccurate. Go 40, take not of milage, go 50, take note again, go 60
take note again. That would be accurate.
Brent
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Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 18:13
I had a 1975 monte carlo with an LS6 454 engine. By using it's vacuum guage,
it got the lowest vacuum at 65 mph. Run bellow that speed and you could see
the gast guage move.
Brent
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Too bad this formula doesn't work on cars in the real world.
Brent
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Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 21:48:24 -0500
The question is: How much you would benefit
at the same spead.
I also test drove a ford festiva when they first came out. Against the wind
it wouldn't do 60mph, and I imagine the milage would be poor too. It was too
underpowered for anything more than a grocery getter in town.
Brent
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Air resistance goes up dramatically as a function of speed, per the
following equation:
Power =
($2.80/US
gallon), getting the best mpg on any vehicle is top priority.
Every vehicle is different, why not a 40mph limit, or 50mph? The 55mph limit
has more to do with sticking a balance between economy and keeping cars
moving on the highways.
Brent
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Congrats, what kind of license do you need to use biodiesel?
Brent
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Subject: [biofuel] Sparkling bio-diesel
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 18:00:50 +0100 (BST)
Dear Todd
At last, I have the final
. The car was relatively cheap and had a roller cam and
headers from the factory, which are very expensive items compared to
hydraulic cam and cast manifolds. A couple years later the mustangs were
getting 25. Just a chip change.
Just my observations.
Brent
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laugh at the auto makers and their reteric about fue milage on the new
vehicles. Why can I make a small truck get high 20s mpg when a new V8 dodge
dakota with all it's technology only gets 25mpg?
Brent
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At one time I had the plans for a solar still. It was quite easy, and if I
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format, I would send it to you. But solar stills are possible.
Brent
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When recovering the methanol, do you heat the whole batch after it
settles, or heat each part sepparately (biodiesel and glycerine)?
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be
tweeked to get over 150 deg.
Brent
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My idea on a solar collector for BD involves running
No pics or drawings of it, and I plan on changing the design a bit too. And
haven't figured out if I'll run the oil through it or run a heat exchanger
off of it to the oil. Ill post what I can when I get it finished.
Brent
Saskatchewan, Canada
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the distilling?
Thanx
Brent
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Before I give you figures, let's establish for any newbies that you most
certainly need
owned a service sation 25 miles from any city, and people will drive 25
miles if our gas was a tenth of a cent more expensive. So my search for
cheaper methanol continues.
Brent
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I have concidered methanol recovery, but it will be in the future when I am
set up better. How much of the methanol will stay in the glycerine? I am
still trying to source a cheaper supplier for methanol and will keep going
till the goverment shuts me down...lol.
Brent
From: girl_mark_fire
I would be happy to pay $2/gallon. I pay $29/20litre pail, that works out to
$1.50/litre or $6.00/U.S. gallon.
Brent
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Subject: Re: [biofuel] price of methanol
Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 11:22:12 -0700
look towards the auto industry to do it.
Brent
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Subject: [biofuels-biz] Small steps by GM
Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 02:04:17 +0900
General Motors -- last year
I wish I could get it for $115/50 gallons...lol.
Brent
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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
diesel and bio
diesel?
Brent
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Hi,
I am 17 years old and interested in producing my own ethanol
for fuel. I live in maine, USA and was told i needed some kind
of permit... could anybody help me with this?
Brent
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Where are you from? I am in Saskatchewan.
Brent
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Subject: [biofuel] cold weather
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 20:24:40 +
i live in canada and with cold weather apporoaching i am worried about being
able
. Now I can see our natural gas rates increase because of this.
Can we consentrate on biodeisel and other energies to become selfreliant
individuals instead of supporting big companies that we have no control
over?
Brent
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Is there anyone willing to put on this type of workshop in western Canada?
Brent
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I would like to make contact with anyong making and/or using biodeisel in
western Canada.
Brent
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