Dear Michael, I have plent of Palm Oil. When you mentioned that you used Straight Palm Oil you hadn't transerterificate the oil?
regards, Marco --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Michael Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear David, > > We did extensive work last year on heated Straight > Palm Oil (SPO) in two-wheeled tractors and fishing > boat motors. We had field trials by local farmers of > four commercial tractors and did test-bed work with > three others. Crude palm oil caused erosion of the > pistons by late ignition but refined palm-oil (of the > grade used for cooking oil) worked well. But we never > got around to using it in a locomotive. > > This year we have been trying a range of reactor > designs to optimise methyl ester production from > refined oil. We are now moving back through various > forms of oil "refinement" towards the crude palm oil > (CPO). And yes, we are currently using the Aleks Kak > two-stage process. And yes it is currently at > atmospheric pressure (although the reactor was > designed to handle 200 kPa mainly as a safety feature. > Even so, some enthusiastic welders have > "overpressurised" it twice now through forgetting to > flood (and then drain) it with water before modifying > the unit). > > The locomotive I mentioned is running on a B50 blend: > It uses esters from a one stage trans-esterification > reaction of methanol with the stearin and palmitin > which has separated from the CPO. This waxy stuff is > probably quite comparable with the good Scottish lard. > > Lots of luck! > > Michael Allen > > --- Keith Addison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Thanks for your response, prof. Allen. I'll > > formulate an inquiry to > > >Mohammed Farid as you suggest. You mentioned Thai > > railway application. I > > >saw somewhere that German railways are using SVO in > > some of their shunting > > >engines. > > > > > http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,53591,00.html > > Choo-Choo Trains on Energy Crunch > > > > >The encouraging part of your message is you are > > reacting at 60C and that > > >this is near methanol boiling point. That implies > > you are succeeding at > > >atmospheric pressure. Do you use conc. sulphuric > > acid first stage? I agree > > >meth recovery is so simple that using excess is not > > really a problem. > > > > > >David T. > > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Finance - Get real-time stock quotes > http://finance.yahoo.com ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> 4 DVDs Free +s&p Join Now http://us.click.yahoo.com/pt6YBB/NXiEAA/MVfIAA/9bTolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Biofuels at Journey to Forever http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel at WebConX http://www.webconx.dns2go.com/2000/biofuel/biofuel.htm List messages are archived at the Info-Archive at NNYTech: http://archive.nnytech.net/ 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/
