From: Ryan Gill (rmgill@mindspring.com)
Date: Sun Oct 02 2005 - 10:09:08 PDT
At 9:39 AM -0700 10/2/05, Darrell Ramsell wrote:
>Hi Dick
>
>You reminded me of a question I wanted to ask earlier on this topic.
>
>I'm not a chemist, so I was wondering if anyone
>can tell me what is the function of Lye and
>methanol when added to oil?
The Waste Vegetable oils are triglycerides. The
Lye and Methanol are there to crack the glycerine
out of the WVO. This is called
transesterification, it substitutes alcohol for
the glycerine in a reaction, the lye is a
catalyst. You can use Ethanol, but the process is
trickier and more complex. The critical thing
with using the Methanol is that you don't
blind/kill yourself with it.
These guys have a very very good set of write ups.
http://journeytoforever.org/
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