Howdy Randall. This sounds interesting, do you have a reference? My guess would be that the hydrogen just dissolves in the oil, the result of which is a mixture with a lower viscosity and higher heat of combustion. I can't imagine a chemical reaction, unless one does metal catalyzed hydrogenation which would turn the stuff into saturated fat.
Randall Phelps wrote: > I was reading a research paper that indicated that loading vegetable > oil with Hydrogen would have much the same effect as using an acid for > transesterfication. If this is the case, would it be more cost effective > to use Hydrogen? It seems steps could be eliminated or made simpler. > Does anyone have experience or information relating to this? > > _______________________________________________ > 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/ > > > > -- Bob Allen http://ozarker.org/bob "Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves" — Richard Feynman _______________________________________________ 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/
