>One of our project members has requested that I >investigate the possability of methanol production >using corn cobs as a feedstock. > >Consisting of mainly cellulose I imagine that a >destructive distillation might be the route to go. > >Does anyone have a lead for more information on >destructive distillation or related material? > >I am more inclined to use pulverized corncobs as >Biodiesel production power myself but a small scale >methanol production unit would definately lower our >projected costs of Biodiesel production. > >Dana Linscott
Hi Dana Why not go for ethyl esters? Re methanol, there's some information in the message archives. Try a search for "Hynol", "destructive distillation", "DD", should work. We haven't found anything satisfactory. There was a method in a Home Power article mentioned (Jerry?), but I don't think anybody's tried it and I don't have a detailed description of it. Do you need to expend the power pulverising the corncobs for BD production? Couldn't you burn them as-is? Best Keith Addison Journey to Forever Handmade Projects Tokyo http://journeytoforever.org/ Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
