Hello, I've been trying to find technical info on the use of ethanol in the biodiesel manufacturing process, with no luck. I've been discussing the possibility of a small-scale plant that produced both biodiesel and ethanol, using agricultural raw materials (we are lucky in California - lots of raw materials). It seems that there would have to be an internal production of methanol to feed into biodiesel production- perhaps not hard to do if you are making ethanol at the same time? Apparently any woody material can be used for methanol production. I don't know of any yeast that churn out methanol, although there may be some bacteria that do. You would need some good distillation equipment, in any case.
On Tue, 22 Apr 2003, Bryan Brah wrote: > Since it is so difficult to make BioDiesel with ethanol, how hard would > it be to make methanol at home? I know that methanol is a by-product of > ethanol distillation of fruits containing high concentrations of pectin, > is there a way to exploit this fact and make just methanol? > > > > -BRAH > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > Yahoo! Groups Sponsor > > 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 the Yahoo! Terms of Service. > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Make Money Online Auctions! Make $500.00 or We Will Give You Thirty Dollars for Trying! http://us.click.yahoo.com/yMx78A/fNtFAA/AG3JAA/FGYolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> 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/
