On May 4, 2006, at 8:21 PM, Jason & Katie wrote:
> > if one were to apply vacuum to a castor based alcohol > refinery, the heat required would be considerably less, > therefore the front-end energy requirements would be > less. does it make sense to use this to speed the > vaporization process? Absolutely, if you can produce the required vacuum for less energy than the heat you'll save. > > AND > > all the permit applications and tax references i have looked > up, at least in the US, require fuel grade alcohol to be > denatured at a minimum of at least 5% to qualify for the > alcohol tax exemption(not sales or road taxes ). can > castor oil be used as a denaturant? I don't believe so, but you can study the various types of denatured ethanol at the Pharmco-Aaper site here: http://www.pharmco-prod.com/pages/ethanoldenatured.html There is one formula for a CDA (completely denatured alcohol) that only requires 2% denaturant -- namely, gasoline. -K _______________________________________________ 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/
