Here's a simple way to heat your methanol. Keep it inside. If your spouse won't allow you to keep it inside, place your sealed container in your car with the windows rolled up on a sunny day and the sun will warm it up in a few hours. I wouldn't heat methanol with flame since its boiling pt. is 140F/60C.
Greg ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: "Bryan Fullerton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: biofuel@egroups.com Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 21:31:16 -0800 >Boy that sounds familiar.. so youthink heating the methanol would allow me >to use less of it to dissolve the same amount of lye? hehehe any idea how >dangerous that might be? Usually when I add the lye it heats up on its own.. >I just have to stir it like crazy and let it sit for a while... I have had >plenty of gunk but no one to say for positive what it was... >Thanks for the info.. > >---Bryan > > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Trudy Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <biofuel@egroups.com> >Sent: Monday, November 13, 2000 8:04 PM >Subject: Re: [biofuel] Biodiesel from solid WVfat > > >> Remember to heat your oil to 120F / 50C prior to adding the methanol/lye >mixture. The boiling point of methanol is 140F/66C. Don't forget that the >Methanol must be not be cold, otherwise the lye won't dissolve!! Keep the >methanol inside. I had heated my oil, but kept my methanol in my unheated >garage. I had 100 liters/25 gal of unuseable gunk. >> >> >> ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- >> From: "Bryan Fullerton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Reply-To: biofuel@egroups.com >> Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 17:02:00 -0800 >> >> >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] >> >> >> >> >> > >> > >> > >> >Biofuel at Journey to Forever: >> >http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html >> >To unsubscribe, send an email to: >> >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > >> > >> >> >> Biofuel at Journey to Forever: >> http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html >> To unsubscribe, send an email to: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> > > > >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/_/974227758/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------_-> Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
