Greg Harbican wrote: > What I was thinking, is instead of stirring the mix, using a pump to > pump from the bottom of the tank into the top of the tank. If oil > / methoxide mix is coming in at a slight angle so that it gets the > entire tank of oil to moving around the tank, that would be just like > stirring it. In a way, you would be moving more mix faster that by > stirring alone. So after a few hours it should truly be well mixed. > > Granted at first all the methoxide would be at the top, but, as the > oil circulates ( from bottom to top ), the methoxide should blend in.
Why not take things a step further by switching on the pump before the methoxide is added and then you have a slow gravity feed of the methoxide, so that it "drips" in as the oil is circulated? > > > Is that not the basis for mixing for some of the reactors at the JtF > web site? > > Greg H. Andrew ------------------------ 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/