First time making bio diesel
"John Harris" <[email protected]> Wed, 6 Feb 2008 09:31:04 -0700
| Newsgroups | gmane.org.clubs.gobiodiesel |
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I am a first time maker of bio diesel, and I would appriciate some feed = back on my test results. I am using a product called Heat for the methanol. on a previous test = suing 200ml of methanol (Heat) my gliceran was only 125 ml, so I = increased the methanol to 325 ml. I am thinking that the Heat is not = pure methanol, so I compinsated by increasing to have an equivelant of = 200ml. I am using KOH, and according to the instructions in "Make your own = biodiesel", I uncreased the KOH to 5g. I used new vegatable oil and heated 1 litre to 130 deg F. I then poured the oil into a blinder, and retested the temp, and it was = 130 deg F I poured in the methanol/KOH mix and mised it for 5o minutes. I then let it set for 24 hours. In the wash test I had a good seperation of the water withen 30 minuits, = but I have a small white fome that seperates the water from the oil. Is this bad, and if so do you have any idea of what I did wrong. One more thing. I am doing this in my shop in Idaho, and the temp = outside was 30 deg F, so I put my shop lamp about 2 feet from the mixer = to compinsate for the cold. Thanks, John