"damian", supposedly the biodiesel doesn't heat up very fast- the person who reported doing this test said that the water boiled off and the biodiesel was still cool to the touch. I'm sure you would want to only nuke it in several-second bursts. I havetn' tried doing this, not liking microwave ovens and all that..
Mark At 03:59 PM 1/29/2003 -0500, you wrote: >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>http://www.unification.net > > > >Yahoo! Groups Sponsor >ADVERTISEMENT ><http://rd.yahoo.com/M=244396.2846622.4218523.2848452/D=egroupweb/S=1705083269:HM/A=1414307/R=0/*https://www.clearcredit.com/registration/default.asp?n=b&cpID=c01888p1379&ckID=gen14628>5664ea2.jpg >5664f6b.jpg > >Biofuel at Journey to Forever: ><http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html>http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html > >Biofuels list archives: ><http://archive.nnytech.net/>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 the ><http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/>Yahoo! Terms of Service. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] 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/
