Hi all,
Well one of the silent ones here who has never posted until now. I have been producing bio-diesel for a few months now without any trouble until this morning. My previous testing included nine one litre batches and six five litre batches without a problem. Nice clean fuel was the result after the bubble wash which burned very nicely in the tractor during hay season and in my gas loader as a gas additive. One of my biggest problems was that I was using 7 g of lye in 200 ml of methanol to 800 ml of fryer oil... this had worked every time until now. I heat the oil to 130 ' F and mix the lye / methanol blend ... and stir with a paint mixer and drill for 15 minutes. Last night a made four batches of five litres from the same oil and put them into the same settling tank... this morning I had a solid jelly mass that resembles tomato jelly... no layers ... just an even jelly mass. The only difference this time was the use of a different brand of methanol. I also had opened a new container of lye which was a little caked. Possibly to much water? I was wondering if anyone has had this problem before? I will trying a one litre batch with the same oil and lye, but with the original methanol brand I was using. --- I just came back from an oil pickup... had a call while writing this message for a pickup. I live in cottage country in Ontario, Canada which has dozens of "chip trucks". These fish and chip truck produce up to 120 litres of fryer oil every week or two. Lots of fryer oil in my area. Well I just checked the jelly mass which is in a drum outside and it is now a liquid mass that seems to be clearing... the sun is beating on it and has warmed it up enough to liquefy... I'm assuming the reaction has not completely taken place... the oil was veg. shortening.. OK, how long should I be keeping my mixture at 130' F, during the mixing and how long after? Thanks, Saul A. Juliao ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Make a clean sweep of pop-up ads. Yahoo! Companion Toolbar. Now with Pop-Up Blocker. Get it for free! http://us.click.yahoo.com/L5YrjA/eSIIAA/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/
