Joe, the water is from the household water heater and is not conditioned. It sounds stupid but my first idea was that the water was too hot
than I added 0,1l vinegar to break the emulsion. Is this a reason for the brown powder? Andrew ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joe Street" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <biofuel@sustainablelists.org> Sent: Monday, June 26, 2006 4:28 PM Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Never seen wash problem Hi Andrew; Is the water you used conditioned by a water softener? Joe Tonomár András wrote: > Dear List members, > > > I need your ideas of what went worng with my washing > I make 45 l batches for almost a year now and I have only had minor > emulsion problems > in the first wash that I could handle pretty good with hot water or some > vinegar. > > I make BD from WVO with 2 stage base - base, and I stir wash it all the > time. > > Today morning I started to do the 5th (last wash) on my batch. > the previous (4th) wash water was see through but not chrystal clear. > The fuel handeled stir washing very well - long time, and even high rpm. > > As I stired for the 5th what I got was a thick emulsion. > I am shocked!!!! > > The wash water is from the household water heater, ph 7 and around 60 deg C > > Overall tempreture of the mix is around 35 - 40 deg C. > > The emulsion separated in a couple hours and as I drained the wash water > a brown layer remained on the inside wall of the wash tank. This looks > like rust > But it is not rust > > I just don't get it. Do you??? > > Never ever had such a problem before. > Any ideas? > > Thanks > Andrew > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > 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/
