Tidying up the Acetone to aid production page.

[Julian]

I'll paste the page as is in blue and make comments in maroon.

Some of the "New page" that you pasted to start the page, so I'll add the missing bits.
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As it says above, so the metadescription tags could become ... <metadesc>Using Acetone to aid biodiesel production.</metadesc> ... or a longer and better description if you wish.   This description is never seen by viewers of the page.


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Brief intro, which can include a thumbnail photo, here ...

Would be better to put the intro above the TOC to be consistant with other pages.  Similarly to be consistant, you could loose the title "Introduction".
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I think the levels go on for several more stages, but we tend to only use two, so main headdings with subheaddings.  You can have as many main and sub headdings as you want.  I think you need a minimum of three main headdings before the TOC starts to index the page automatically.





Introduction. ... Delete


The use of acetone to aid soap removal in water washing was something that was first discussed by Nathan and Steve on this forum, testing has been done by Mark. ... This intro moves up above the TOC tag.






==First test.== ... the equals signs will make this your first main headding and put it in a different style of font.

The initial test was done with a 250ml sample.
this had allready been water washed and had a soap content of 76ppm.
It showed a clear 50/50





OK, you used BB code which is used on the forum, that doesn't work on the wiki ... sorry! (but as I'm typing this on the forum, they'll show in the post ... confusing eh!)

The process of displaying a photo is quite simple.  You first need to up load the photo to the wiki.  That way all the info for the wiki is stored in one place and backed up regularly.

So, go to "Upload file" in the left hand tool box menu.  Click "Browse" and it's all pretty self explanatory, a bit like up loading photos to ebay.  Try and give the photo a short, but pertinent name.  The wiki will accept several types of photo or graphic files ... png, gif, jpg and jpeg.

Once up loaded you will see the photo on a new page.  You can now call up that file just by inserting the file name prefixed with "File:" and bracketed by double square brackets.

For example ... [[File:my_file_name.jpg]]

There are other ways to display photos, but it's getting late, so try the suggestions to date, see how you get on and I'll expand further if what I've babbled on about so far makes sense!


4 drops of acetone was added, the test was then shaken and left to settle.



It clearly shows more soap has dropped.

Soap content now tested at 36ppm

Method.

As yet this has only been tested in conjunction with the titrated acid, pump wash method.

After the acid wash is drained, add 1ml of acetone to every 10L of bio in to 15% (of batch volume) water.

add this to the bio and pump for 1 hour,

Turn pump off and let the water settle, this normally take a few hours to obtain a good split of bio and water.

At this stage, after just one wash (remember the acid wash is just for neutralisation, not soap removal) do a 50/50 soap test,
if like me you find that this gives a clear pass (water at the bottom is clear and you have a good split of bio/water) you may wish to to a titrated soap test.

I have done a titrated soap test and got a result of 42.56ppm of soap.

I would normally need to do at least 3 washes to get soaps down to this level.

I see no adverse effects of adding acetone to the bio as it's quite a common practice to do this to aid combustion.

[Head Womble]

Umm, I'm no less confused.

Good job Jules stepped in and sorted it out for me.

[Julian]

Oh!

[Head Womble]

If I can get over to you next week you can show a simpleton how it's done.

[Julian]

Next week's free apart from Monday and I may have to work at the back end, but won't know until nearer the time.  Apart from that happy to help anytime.