I believe you'd find that the challenges you'd create would be enormous to impossible to overcome. Feedmeal would be contaminated beyond recoverability. Catalysts would be bound up by particulates and gums.
A nasty mess it would be. Todd Swearingen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Hi, > >Anybody got any info. on, what I'll call, 'in-situ' transesterification. I >visited a place that made whole fat soy meal for animal feed, the whole fat >means that the oil is not first extracted but kept and used as part of the >feed. The process involved first millng the soy bean then, what looked like, >roasting the meal. > >I'm interested to know what would happen if the milled soy was mixed with >methoxide? We'll get some transesterification - how much? >Would the remaining soy bits seperate from the ester with the glyc? How >difficult would it be to seperate the glyc and soy cake? >Could the soy cake still be used as feed? > >What do you think? Anything published on this? > >Regards, >Duncan > > >------------------------------------------------- >This mail sent through IDWS Webmail www.idws.com >IDWS - South Africa's leader in personal & corporate >internet services. > > >_______________________________________________ >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/ > > > > > _______________________________________________ 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/
