For chemical feed, have a look at some of the Medical Infusion Pumps: they will feed up to about 1L/min. The Gemini pumps are now becoming superceeded, so may be worth looking for (These are the ubiquitous Blue box pump that were seen in Hospital scenes on TV). These could be good for injecting measured liquid chemicals.
regards Doug On Sunday 07 May 2006 5:59, Bob Carr wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Chris Bennett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <biofuel@sustainablelists.org> > Sent: Friday, May 05, 2006 8:29 PM > Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Sweet catalyst & continuous processes > > > Hi Chris, > > Have you tried the sugar catalyst for yourself yet? Looking forward to > reading your results. > Who is making this catalyst in the UK? or alternatively do you have a "make > it at home" recipe? I would love to give it a go. > > I am also working on a continuous processor down here in Northants, > although it seems I am a few steps behind you. I would be happy to compare > notes if you want. > Right now on ebay uk there are a couple of very useful looking peristaltic > pumps that could be used for metered feeding of methoxide and wvo into a > continuous processor. > Please keep me posted on your progress > > Regards > Bob > > > I have just got a small sample of the catalyst. I plan to make 2x 0.5 > > litre batches on my hotplate stirrer. 1 with lye as normal 1 with sugar. > > I will boil off the excess methanol and measure the quantities of > > byproduct produced to compare the lack of soap claims. I will do some > > wash tests to see how clean the diesel is. > > > > looks like instant coffee granules, it would be quite easy to enclose a > > quantity in a mesh cylinder and place inside one of the reactor pipes > > after the pump. Or even have a short length of pipe with a strainer at > > the downstream end filled with the stuff, just pump the mix over it > > repeatedly. Just unscrew the length of pipe and 'top up' when required. > > Maybe a piece of translucent hose could be incorporated to give a > > visual indication of you catalyst levels. As long as it could be removed > > to top it up, or have an access point upstream of the strainer to pour > > more in it should work fine. > > > > Chris.. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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/ _______________________________________________ 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/
