Hello, Todd. Appal Energy wrote: > Alan, > > Call me a dinosaur, or just one who has narrowed his focus to the near > exclusion of continuous processing, but what is OFM?
Oh, sorry. Oscillatory Flow Mixer. http://www.cheng.cam.ac.uk/groups/polymer/OFM/index.html Basically, it's an easy way to mix liquids moving through a pipe. > Never been overly thrilled with CP, unless it's cold processing. But then > that's the old soap maker in me. It's right up there with hard milling. :-) > Just seems to me that if one has to battle "in transit residence times," or > better still high temperature and pressure in order to get a quality > finished product, then it is far simpler to go with batch processing of > similar capacity. Residence times are easy to deal with. It's that high pressure stuff that's difficult. That's why I don't bother with it. To much effort for a hobbiest like myself. > I have to ask, partly because I've not fixated on CP and in all do > seriousness, who has done any side by side examination of system sizes, > production volume, energy efficiency, quality and cost between the two types > of processing systems? I haven't looked at a comparison much, myself. I'm building a continuous processor more because I want to than for any other reason. > High temp and pressure for transient fluids don't appear to be a simple > exercise in fall canning conducted in the summer kitchen. Definitely not. AP ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Buy Ink Cartridges or Refill Kits for Your HP, Epson, Canon or Lexmark Printer at Myinks.com. Free s/h on orders $50 or more to the US & Canada. http://www.c1tracking.com/l.asp?cid=5511 http://us.click.yahoo.com/l.m7sD/LIdGAA/qnsNAA/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/
