sounds like it wasn't heated long enough to drive of the water. not too sure. you could try the 2 stage method, which does not require titration.
Steve Spence Subscribe to the Renewable Energy Newsletter: http://www.webconx.com/subscribe.htm Renewable Energy Pages - http://www.webconx.com Palm Pilot Pages - http://www.webconx.com/palm X10 Home Automation - http://www.webconx.com/x10 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (212) 894-3704 x3154 - voicemail/fax We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children. -- ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bryan Fullerton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <biofuel@egroups.com> Sent: Monday, November 13, 2000 8:02 PM Subject: Re: [biofuel] Biodiesel from solid WVfat > That sounds pretty good but I wonder if you are using enough lye.. Of course > if you're a good boy (G) and did your titration then I guess I have no field > to comment.. I like about 250-300 ml of methanol to about 7g of lye.. but > then my oil tends to be pretty solid and brown. I had to heat my last batch > quite a while to get it melted.. the trick is not to get it too hot (past > the methanol boiling point) and to not get any water in with it.. I say that > because I store my used grease outside and sometimes condensation gets in > the buckets. My glycerin mix is always very solid. Does this mean it has > lots of soaps in it? I have no idea.. I do know that if I miscalculate on my > methoxide mixture and have to reprocess it then the glycerin is always > liquid and I can't get it to solidify for nothing.. having it get hard makes > it easier to pour off the bio-diesel.. > > Steve if you could comment on this that would be great... > > ttygl ---Bryan > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Albert le Dub" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <biofuel@egroups.com> > Sent: Monday, November 13, 2000 11:19 AM > Subject: [biofuel] Biodiesel from solid WVfat > > > > Does anybody knows how I can make biodiesel from WVO, which is solid > > at roomtemperature? > > > > I tried, but after reaktion the oil is still more or less solid. > > > > I used 70 liters solid WVO from a snackhouse, 20% methanol (15 > > liters), 6 gram lye per liter WVO en mixed 2 hours at 45 degrees > > Celsius. > > (of course I first dissolved the lye into the methanol) > > Before putting the methanol/lye into the WVO I heated the WVO up to 45 > > degrees Celsius. > > > > After the reaktion, the bottom layer gets solid after cooling. So > > there must be soap en glycerine! > > > > When using liquid WVO I had no problems. > > > > What went wrong? > > > > Albert > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Biofuel at Journey to Forever: > > http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html > > To unsubscribe, send an email to: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > eGroups Sponsor > > > Biofuel at Journey to Forever: > http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html > To unsubscribe, send an email to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -------------------------- eGroups Sponsor -------------------------~-~> eLerts It's Easy. It's Fun. Best of All, it's Free! http://click.egroups.com/1/9699/2/_/837408/_/974177603/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------_-> Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
