On Thursday, May 13, 2004, at 10:19 AM, mohamed hassan wrote:
> what will happen to the estrification reaction when a > double alcohol is ued something like 1,3, proban di ol > would the reaction be faster or slower??? > how does the FAME of this behave???? > will having 2 alcohol groups means using less > alcohol??? Brian is correct -- you'd end up with nearly a diglyceride, except without the pendant hydroxyl group, so it wouldn't be polar. Still rather high viscosity, I'd imagine -- probly wouldn't work without preheating, since biodiesel barely does. -K ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Yahoo! Domains - Claim yours for only $14.70 http://us.click.yahoo.com/Z1wmxD/DREIAA/yQLSAA/FGYolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> 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/