And what happened to the REST of the hemp plant? Appal Energy wrote:
>Ryan, > >Once, a bit over six years ago, I rather hastily put together a gallon >of what I thought would be biodiesel from hempseed oil. Sure enough, it >glopped out. I racked my brain as to what went wrong and could come up >with nothing, believing that I'd done everything to the tee. > >Over the next year, we processed more than 2,000 gallons from the same >stores of hempseed oil. Not a problem. > >The only possible reason for one small failure out of so much volume? >Human error. It happens. Taking notes helps reduce the possibilities of >such. Racking your brain often helps resolve others. > >You might ask yourself what it was that made you think your first go >'round was too soapy. > >Todd Swearingen > > > >Ryan Pope wrote: > > > >>I attempeted to post this last week. Didn't come through due to >>glitches of some sort. >> >>*-*-*-*-*-*-* >>I made my first small batch last Wednesday, and it turned out OK; I >>thought it had a little too much soapiness, so I reprocessed it. 100ml >>methnol, 3.5g NaOH, 1.5hrs, as per directions. After settling, I had a >>nasty lump of gelled stuff. I thought maybe it was the cold, it did >>get down to 45-50 F that night. Brought the jug indoors overnight. >>Nope, still thick. Better, but still gooey. >> >>Anyway, can you overprocess? What happens if you do? >> >>Thanks, >> >>Ryan >> >>*-*-*-*-*-*-* >> >>SINCE THEN; >> >>I'm thinking it was all the container I used. It was a LDPE container, >>and I think the finished diesel dissolved some plastic that the SVO >>the first time didn't. Add heat, and it dissolved even more. My >>original question is still valid though...can you OVERprocess? And >>what happens? >> >> >>And my second small trial batch is settling right now...so far so good. >> >>Ryan >> >>_________________________________________________________________ >>Don’t just search. Find. Check out the new MSN Search! >>http://search.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200636ave/direct/01/ >> >> >>------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >>_______________________________________________ >>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/ >> >> >> >>------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >>Internal Virus Database is out-of-date. >>Checked by AVG Free Edition. >>Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.5.1/327 - Release Date: 4/28/2006 >> >> >> >> > >_______________________________________________ >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/
