[Vwdiesel] Reactor converts vegetable oil into biodiesel

[Kurt Nolte]

Jim DANA wrote:
> Actually the Lye ends up back in the glycerol, methanol, etc. 
> leftovers as NaOH again. And can be reused along with the Methanol. 
> Some folks do recover and reuse it.

But if you have water in there, it ends up reacting with the glycerides, 
free fatty acids, and the water to form a very mayo-thick soap. Nasty 
stuff, but it'll clean damn near anything.


What bothers me about this microprocessor is that apparently you don't 
settle your product? What how are the free glycerides removed from the 
mix? ASTM spec can only have so much free glycerin content in it...

-Kurt


And Jim, apologies for sending that to you personally in the beginning. 
I'm still not quite savvy with mailing lists, so I don't quite remember 
to check my "To:" line when hitting reply. Again, my apologies.

		
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