Ion Exchange Resin

[DAQUA]

Evening Gents I hope this is a friendly forum

Firstly let me introduce myself I run a company that are distributors in the UK for ion exchange resins. One of the new products we will be maketing over the year is Macroporous Resin used in the Bio Diesel purification stage.

I have to admit I am a total novice about this as been more used to the water purification side.

Purolite PD206 seems to one of the leading brands but eco2pure seems to the top selling brand. Is there any reason why people are put off using ion exchange resin for the processing of bio fuel.

The product we sell is Tulsion T-45 which is being used with great success in the States and Europe which we have on special offer at the moment £75 for 10kg.

Is there a market for ion exchange resins here in the UK or is it in decline.

Appreciate your comments.

Many thanks

Doug

[Tony]

Hi Doug, firstly welcome to the forum

Ion exchange is used prevalently in some of the big commercial setups.  I'm sure there are homebrewers that still use ion exchange but the trend has been away from it.  The reason products like eco2pure are becoming more popular is that the medium removes soaps from the fuel (capturing them in the medium) rather than converting them into free fatty acids like the ion exchange resins do.  In some ways this a "cheaty" way to get fuel to meet the US standard for biodiesel quality (which doesn't allow much soap, but has a higher margin for free fatty acids).  We like to keep the acid number of our fuel low as there are some reports from injector equipment manufacturers that this may cause long term problems with corrosion of precision parts.

I hope that answers your question