Is there not a danger of fire putting combustible materials in a microwave oven?
Damian On Sat, 25 Jan 2003, girl mark wrote: >Theoretically a backyard test for water content is to weigh a sample, then >heat to past the boiling point of water, then weigh again. Someone figured >out once that if you do this in a microwave oven, you won't heat (and boil >away or whatever) the biodiesel, only the water, which takes care of todd's >concerns about boiling in the previous post. > > I think I still have my two first samples (ie washed fuel that started >out hazy, same batch of washed and then dried fuel that started out clear >and then reverted to hazy after sitting in a sealed jar for two weeks). If >I can find someone with a microwave among my friends I'll try and test >relative water content of either. But how much is the weight likely to change? > > Like I said I haven't done this qualitatively before- so I don't know if >the amount of water sufficient to form haze in the fuel is a sufficient >mass of water for me to weigh on a .1g sensitivity scale. any ideas on what >is the weight of the water if it is present at for instance 1200 ppm in a >100 ml sample of biodiesel? > >Mark -- Damian J. Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.unification.net Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
