If the coloured particles (maybe with so high percent of FFA, this oil has been used for many cicles of heating or a strong treatment, and probably it has a high decomposition ratio) are quite small, bentonite has not capacity to recover from the media. The carbon is better for this purposes.
Best 2007/9/27, Keith Addison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Hi Ross > > >Hi all, > >Keith,the quality is not a question,according to my > >NIR the BD is 99.2% esters - the foolproof method - > >acid stage and 2 alkaline stages with glycerin removal > >between , > > Good going! > > Then it really seems a pity to bother about the colour. > > By the way, where do you get the 60% FFA oil from, if you don't mind > my asking? What's it been used for to have so much FFA? > > >but I am supplying a close circle of friends > >with fuel and the people asking me "What is that black > >sh.t you are producing?" > > :-) Friends should be more friendly. > > Maybe you need a suitable slogan or a brandname or something, like > black is beautiful - but, strange to tell, in the English language > "black" usually means trouble, it's white that means all the good > things, now ain't that a surprise (not!). I mean they don't make > black Kleenex. (Or do they?) > > Anyway you'd need it in Bulgarian, maybe it's not such a racist > language as English. > > >Thanks,Mr Montenegro,the activated carbon is my last > >mean,I somehow kept the hope that I solve the problem > >with some bleaching agent > > A bleach might cause pH problems though. The carbon should work, > though I'm surprised the bentonite didn't. > > All best > > Keith > > > >since boiling the BD sounds > >no good to me/polymerization!/ and filtering is OK > >with 5 micron in the end of the line. > >Ross > > > _______________________________________________ > Biofuel mailing list > Biofuel@sustainablelists.org > http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel > > Biofuel at Journey to Forever: > http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html > > Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (70,000 > messages): > http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/attachments/20070927/65b79508/attachment.html _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (70,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
