Hi Keith ; You guys are way ahead of me.
> Have you checked the Biofuels-biz list archives for > information on > processing Crude Palm Oil (CPO)? I doubt that's in > your book. Try a > search here for "Allen", check messages about > high-FFA oils and so on: > http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuels-biz/ Yes, apparently there are ways of harvesting and pre-treating the fruit to reduce FFA's to a minimum. Brusied fruti causes large increases in FFA formation. Short sterilization immediately after harvesting stops FFA formation. I'll post more as I learn. Just getting started. > By the way, are you aware of the trials with > sunflower oil being > conducted by Suncare Fuels and Tsukuba University > with Lao refugees > on 600,000 hectares in Northern Thailand? They're > expecting to > produce 126,000 kilolitres of biodiesel per 100,000 > hectares, half of > it to be sold locally. Now we're talking. When I say there is not enough waste oil to make a difference, it doesn't mean don't use waste oil. It means let's think about some other possible feedstocks in addition to waste oil. I'll try to look into why they chose sunflower. They know more than me. Could be for harvesting ease, pest resistance, soil or fertilizer requirement, etc. Best Regards, Peter G. Thailand __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> $9.95 domain names from Yahoo!. Register anything. http://us.click.yahoo.com/J8kdrA/y20IAA/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/
