All,
got a question. I am no chemist by any means and have a rudimentary handle on whats occuring within the reaction that I have been performing for years. I have stuck to the recipe and it has worked well for me.
I should receive my new car in the next couple of days which has a 1HD-FTE in it, and am interested in improving my fuel quality for the new engine / fuel pump.
The first obvious improvement to the fuel would be to wash it and make sure I have all of the catalyst and meth out.
question - is my understanding correct? By washing the fuel you are removing methanol, which holds residue catalyst / water / unreacted oil in suspension in the bio?
remove the methanol and the rest drops out leaving you nothing but the bio?
I want to wash the fuel, but I dont want to deal with large quantities of waste water, not to mention the time and additional process.
I have tried bubbling, but havent had any success with a 200 litre brew. no discernible difference at all. I think you need a lot of air, and that gets noisy. I dont think the neighbours would appreciate the compressor coming on at 2am!
This got me thinking, could I wash with heat? methanol boils at about 65 degrees right? could I just boil the methanol right out of the bio?
Now I dont think I would use my immersion heater that is in the brewer - seems a little dangerous to my mind. that thing gets way too hot.
I was thinking of another electric heating element in a small vessel say a 20 litre drum with copper pipework coiled up through the mixer from the bottom and out the top, returning to the bottom of the vessel. it would circulate without a pump, and slowly heat the brew up. ofcourse there would be energy losses which I would need to to counter with insulation etc.
or would it be safe enough to simply turn on the brew heater and set the thermostat to 75 degrees? what does everyone think?
regardless of heating method, would heating the brew be an effective wash?
and while your at it, should I heat using a remote element or use the immersion element I have in the brewer?
got a question. I am no chemist by any means and have a rudimentary handle on whats occuring within the reaction that I have been performing for years. I have stuck to the recipe and it has worked well for me.
I should receive my new car in the next couple of days which has a 1HD-FTE in it, and am interested in improving my fuel quality for the new engine / fuel pump.
The first obvious improvement to the fuel would be to wash it and make sure I have all of the catalyst and meth out.
question - is my understanding correct? By washing the fuel you are removing methanol, which holds residue catalyst / water / unreacted oil in suspension in the bio?
remove the methanol and the rest drops out leaving you nothing but the bio?
I want to wash the fuel, but I dont want to deal with large quantities of waste water, not to mention the time and additional process.
I have tried bubbling, but havent had any success with a 200 litre brew. no discernible difference at all. I think you need a lot of air, and that gets noisy. I dont think the neighbours would appreciate the compressor coming on at 2am!
This got me thinking, could I wash with heat? methanol boils at about 65 degrees right? could I just boil the methanol right out of the bio?
Now I dont think I would use my immersion heater that is in the brewer - seems a little dangerous to my mind. that thing gets way too hot.
I was thinking of another electric heating element in a small vessel say a 20 litre drum with copper pipework coiled up through the mixer from the bottom and out the top, returning to the bottom of the vessel. it would circulate without a pump, and slowly heat the brew up. ofcourse there would be energy losses which I would need to to counter with insulation etc.
or would it be safe enough to simply turn on the brew heater and set the thermostat to 75 degrees? what does everyone think?
regardless of heating method, would heating the brew be an effective wash?
and while your at it, should I heat using a remote element or use the immersion element I have in the brewer?
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