Finishing methods

[slabster]

Well the old school method was ion exchange resin, which turned the soaps in the fuel back to free fatty acids.  But none of us are convinced that's a good thing to do to your fuel.  That said, from what I understand Carrington is running vehicles on high ratios of free fatty acids, so perhaps we are mistaken.

Is not FFA converted to a Fatty Acid Ester by esterification.

Slabs

[Tony]

Good question.  Might need a chemist for that!

I suspect not, otherwise the free fatty acids released from glycerol by acid reaction could be methylated to make biodiesel too.

[Carrington]

Just a quick reply.
After cracking the Glyc all the FFA's need to be converted to methyl ester (biodiesel) by acid esterification. This process is much less straight forward than transeterification of tryglyceride.
When processing I need to convert down to about 0.5% FFA's.

Hope this clears things up.

I should be back soon with tails of my new process and finishing procedure

Cheers

Paul

[julesandtash]

I so wanted to say that but thought that you were still cagey about disclosing the details of your process to the world Paul

Good to see you posting, hopefully all is still going well and progressing from last time I saw you

[Julian]

Great to see you back again, Paul.

We've missed your words of wisdom!

[Carrington]

No wisdom here just rambling of an old fool , but yes should be popping in a bit more soon , just need to finish a little project I've been working on.

[nigelb]

Paul...next time your over Leicester way give me a call. I've got 250lts of glyc here for you.