
Originally Posted by
Dr Mark
Hi Guys
I've made a mod to this method after some quantitative measurements. I've decided tu increase the methoxide ratio from 100:15 to 100:20. This accounts for the amount of MeOH that is consumed by the drying process - something I'd never measured before. In fact the leftover meOH was probably below the stoichiometric amount. With the old ratio of 100:15 it's likely that I wasn't getting complete conversion and there was probably a significant amount of unreacted WVO in there.
With the new quantities I'm getting more glycerol, and it's taking longer to remove the MeOH, so I'm sure it's now fully converted.
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