Hi all. I'm in the first stages of processing and ran into a titration problem. I don't seem to be able to get the wvo to mix properly with the rubbing alcohol. I've stirred vigorously but just end up with little beads of oil in the alcohol, any ideas?.
Most of the info I've read suggest that the correct amt of Na0H is between 6 and 6.25g per litre, and 15 to 20% methanol. I went ahead and blended three 1 litre batches with differing methanol and Na0H contents and here's what I got. #1......1 L.wvo 6.2g Na0H 15%methanol== Light honey colored after settlement, glycerine looked clear colored and like wax in the bottom of the jar. #2......1 L.wvo 6 g Na0H 15% methanol...... looked the same as the mix of 6.2g Na0H #3......1 L.wvo 6g Na0H 20% methanol.... light honey colored but appeared to be more glycerine and the glycerine was a darker almost brown color. Is there anything to be learned from the amount or color of the glycerine after the reaction? I tried the wash test mixing equal parts H20 and finished product,on all three, but none of them separated cleanly. Scratchin' my head on this one. Buck _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wwia.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/biofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel archives at Infoarchive.net (searchable): http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/
