Archive for November, 2009
im looking for the process of making fuel from algae. some specific questions i have are: what species to use? how to grow said species. how to extract oil from the species and how to convert that oil to fuel
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I have looked on journey to forever guidelines in making biodiesel and I’m on the process of testing its quality by putting water on it and shaking it vigorously. I found out I made a poor quality biodiesel since there were the mayonnaise stuff look a like between the water and the oil. if this is the case then does that mean it is useless and should be thrown away or not used? Does this mean it is a waste since it doesn’t pass the quality? Or is there a way to improve the poor quality tested biodiesel I made?
During the heating process, do I have to keep the temperature constant to 55 degree celsius while stirring or when the veg. oil reaches 55C I shut off the oven and put the sodium methoxide?
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Have you ever heard of or do you use Homemade Biodiesel to run your car? If you install a conversion kit for your engine it will be able to run on free vegetable oil from home and Fast Food Restuarants. Pretty cool huh?
Uh the vegetable oil has already been used and it’s really expensive to recycle. So Ethically I don’t think people will cook with use vegetable oil. It’s not good for your health.
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If I were to set up a biodiesel refining unit I would want fresh vegtable oil and I do not want to collect if from resturants. I want to buy at least 500 gallons at a shot to make it worthwhile. I want it domestically produced in the United States. Price and availability are an issue.
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To me, it seems that biodiesel is a great solution to petrol. It’s clean, cheaper than petroldiesel, and completely renewable. And to make things even better, if we used algae grown in marginal lands (desert), 0.3% of the surface of America could supply our energy needs.
So, it seems too good to be true. What are the inconveniences to a pure biodiesel or a biodiesel-electric hybrid solution?
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