Re: Unwashed biodiesel concern

From: Ryan Gill (rmgill@mindspring.com)
Date: Wed May 03 2006 - 06:29:39 PDT


At 9:08 AM -0400 5/3/06, Bjorn Brandstedt wrote:
>I do have one concern about using unwashed
>biodiesel and that is the fact that methanol
>starts to boil at 148 deg F.
>This could be a factor in a hot climate with the
>sun beaming down on the fuel tank.
>I have received a couple of numbers from Kenny
>in Florida and Ken in TX on the fuel temp, but
>those were not maximum or worst case conditions.

Why not just wash the bio-diesel and recover the methanol?

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