Re: [biofuel] glycerol purification

2001-03-14 Thread Biofuels
Insofar as I can gather, they are using a permanent catalyst - some polymerised something. Enzyme processing is tricky. Each enzyme likes a different thing, so yields differ greatly with the use of different enzymes. There is a paper somewhere I found, but didn't keep it.

Re: [biofuel] glycerol purification

2001-03-14 Thread jc41andrc4
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Re: [biofuel] glycerol purification

2001-03-14 Thread Warren Rekow
Terry said: Insofar as I can gather, they are using a permanent catalyst - some polymerised something. Hmmm, or perhaps a 'polymerase' something, as in enzyme?? Enzyme processing is tricky. Each enzyme likes a different thing, so yields differ greatly with the use of different enzymes. There

Re: [biofuel] glycerol purification

2001-03-13 Thread Warren Rekow
Malcolm said per the subject: soybean oil press/extractor to process soybeans for bio-diesel: I saw a web page a little while ago of two guys who claimed to be able to extract the glycerin as a food quality product. As such it was said to be a very valuable side product. This was obviously for

Re: [biofuel] glycerol purification

2001-03-13 Thread Warren Rekow
Hi Keith and Terry, Thanks for the feedback. There are some puzzles in that article about the work of Fox and Ginosar. I had briefly explored the idea of using microorganism-derived or digestive-related enzyme catalysts, but was not impressed by what I initially found. The catalysts were quite