Thankyou Ken, succinctly put, as ever.

Best

Keith


>On Nov 4, 2005, at 10:11 PM, Ken Dunn wrote:
> >
> >
> > I'm still a bit confused.
> >
> > What is the trick to evaporating the methanol
> > without reversing the process?
>
>
>Very simple -- you can't boil off methanol when both
>biodiesel and glycerine are present without shifting
>the equilibrium backwards to some extent.
>
>You can recover methanol out of a mixture of
>methanol with biodiesel, or out of a mixture of
>methanol with glycerine, but NOT out of a mixture
>of all three.
>
>-K


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