Pure glycerin or glycerol (same chemical) contains only carbon, hydrogen and oxygen: C3H8O3. All the combustion products are gaseous (unless there is a little coking) so it should not produce any ash. The ash will come from the sawdust.
High school chemistry *is* good for something. Doug Woodard St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada On Sun, 25 Dec 2005, JJJN wrote: > I have been burning Glycerin sawdust logs to heat my little "laboratory" > and now I am wondering if I put the wood ashes in my compost pile will I > be messing anything up or will the byproducts that remain in the ashes > be good for the compost bugs. I searched the archive but did not find > anything specific to ashes from glycerin. Any help here? _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
