Sorry for re-posting this with a new subject line guys, but I haven't gotten any answers. I'm sure that with all the collected brainpower and experience in this group, someone can help me to answer this.
I've read quite a number of things referring to deterioration of rubber and certain plastics by biodiesel. How serious is this problem really? I understand that methyl ester is a pretty good solvent. I know that methanol is a really good solvent. In Aleks Kac's "Foolproof method," section on methanol recovery, he says that you can remove at least one quarter of all the methanol used. Over 50ml of methanol per litre of oil remains unreacted in solution. My questions are: 1) Is this much unreacted methanol present in the other biodiesel recipe's or is this unique to Aleks' "foolproof" one.? 2) Is it mainly the methanol which causes the deterioration of rubber and plastics, or is the methyl ester equally or more to blame. (will a good methanol recovery system help signifigantly to save rubber etc.?) Obviously this problem isn't critical, because plenty of you folks have driven thousands of miles on the stuff, but I'd like to understand this aspect a little better. Thanks, Dave. Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance Tax Center - File online. File on time. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/biofuel/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
