--- anibal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > heloo!!! again!!! > i have another type of wvo.. this is liquid at room > temperature.. it is > black... very heavily used.. > i tried a mini batch of 500 ml..100 ml methanol.. > and from 5 to 10 grams of > lye.. and it wont react... the more lye.. the more > it seemed to want to > react but.. nothing happened overnight,,, > any thoughts? on what might be the problem? > maybe the oil is stale? maybe it has too much > water?> > my methanol. is about 98% percent it has been going > well in other > reactions.. > should i add more lye? > thanks for the info!! > anibal > > _______________________________________________ > 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/ > Anibal
do you heat the oil to 54C before adding sodium methoxide. you only need 3.25g of NaOH for 500ml of wvo. At 54C mix for 20 min. fox ___________________________________________________________ ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - all new features - even more fun! http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ 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/