Matt, There's no anger. Just that your post was filled with a lot of questions that you should already have the answers to.
Why do I say that? Because many of the questions demonstrate an awareness of specific issues/problems that you couldn't possible have unless you had been following previous posts on similar matters. As to your follow up question below...Yes, washing removes soaps, as well as excess methanol, catalyst and free glycerin. It can also bind up some of the mono- and di-glycerides of an incomplete reaction as emulsion. But don't go jumping to conclusions that washing will remove unconverted glycerides. Not only will washing not necessarily isolate all the unconverted glycerides, but emulsions can break over time, letting the glycerides settle back into the "fuel." As well, any unconverted tri-glycerides won't emulsify and they will remain "solvent" in the fuel. Even if washing did isolate unconverted glycerides, pray tell what it is that you would then do with such a mess? Dumping it in the back 40 is not only wasteful, but creates a dead zone wherever it lands. You can't flush it..., at least not if you're going to tout yourself as "green." The point of making biodiesel is to cleave the glycerol molecule off of all glycerides - mono-, di- and tri- alike, creating a liquid fuel of thin enough viscosity as to run well through injector pumps. Reactions where any portion of the glycerides are not converted will yield "fuel" of higher viscosity than is necessary or can be readily achieved with appropriate amounts of diligence. So in a nutshell? Work towards ways that insure complete reactions, not band-aid methods that give the illusion that a fuel is "passable." Todd Swearingen ----- Original Message ----- From: "bigsimpleton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2004 8:39 AM Subject: [biofuel] Re: Newbie Question > Hello Folks: > > I apologize if I said something to cause anger. I assure you it was > inintentional. > > > --- In [email protected], "Appal Energy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Master Simpleton, > > (snipped for brevity) > > > > 1b) No. You are errant in your understanding. All > > esterification/transesterification reactions create some soap. It's > > unavoidable. If you have an incomplete reaction you have mono- and > > di-glycerides present, which are emulsifiers. (Read a mayonaise > jar next > > visit to your grocer.) > > > > As to your true or false? Try it and let us know. Might take you > 10 - 20 k > > and a rebuilt injector pump before you have an answer. Your call. > > > So if I understand correctly, washing will remove the soaps, but not > the mono and diglycerides? These mono and diglycerides are what > causes harm to the engine? > > > Thanks again for any help. > > Stay Safe, > Matt > > > > > > 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 > > > > > > ------------------------ 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/
