Hello Philip
Interesting, thankyou. Other than the possibility of oxidation
causing polymerisation problems, I'm inclined to agree that it's not
much of an issue. I've never seen any biodiesel that went bad. We
still have some of the first biodiesel we made, more than five years
ago, sealed
Hello,
In relation to the storage issues, from our experience it may not be much of an
issue at all at the commercial level
we opened up a drum from our first reactor that was 4 years old a couple of
weeks ago 45 gallons of it, it had been
sitting outside in a steel drum with approximatly 5
Muriatic acid is the same as a 50/50 mix of hydrochloric acid and water.
Some amount of hydrochloric can be used to balance excess alkalinity, but I
don't think it will act as a preservative particularly. I also don't advocate
adding chlorine as it will turn to salt with the excess lye. Have
Hello again,
Dr. Jon Van Gerpen taught a course segment on the oxidation issue. He has
charts that show a doubling of storage life of vegetable oil with an
antioxidant.
Most of these studies have been done on vegetable oil or lard to date, but
should translate in some degree to biodiesel.
Hi Tom,
I was wondering if Muriatic acid can be used as an anti oxidant as well as
to help break an emulsion. I used about a table spoon on 5 gallons of
emulsification, and it worked great, but I don't know if it will be
detrimental to the engine.
Be unto others a wish-granting Jewel
-The
The most effective antioxidants for biodiesel are the same you find in
breakfast cereal packaging, namely BHA and BHT. A mixture of the two works
even
better. Now you can buy premixed antioxidants from companies such as Kodak. It
only takes a few ppm to make a dramatic impact on shelf life
Hello Tom, Lurch
The most effective antioxidants for biodiesel are the same you find in
breakfast cereal packaging, namely BHA and BHT. A mixture of the
two works even
better. Now you can buy premixed antioxidants from companies such as Kodak. It
only takes a few ppm to make a dramatic impact
Anyone had any experience using some inert gas such as nitrogen to prevent
oxidation of stored biodiesel? Perhaps some sort of oxygen absorber? If there
isn't any oxygen in contact with the biodiesel perhaps it would increase
storage
life.How might this affect algae growth?
Lurch
