This week has been a huge BD week for me. I've had some good wins and a few loses with BD production, making my processor and networking.
I'll start with the wins.
I undertook a mission to make contact with as many user as I could from the US sites that lived here in aus. I had a good number of responses and have tapped into amazing undergroud well of users who have been making and using quietly for more than 6 years.
I investigated an WVO lead and found a sticker with a phone number of a local BD user. (local hell you dont know how local) Peda you might be interested to know about this guy. I would have driven less that 1 kilometer past his house on the way home every day from work. He says his crew meet and have a beer, talk and make BD. How cool is that. They also can get very cheap Methanol. He has given me a cheaper quote for methanol for a 200Lt drum.
I am slowly working through what I'll need for a 20 litre processor. This has taken longer than anticipated. And another bummer I blew a test batch of WVO. I think I didn't mix enough and have gotten a nowhere near incomplete conversion. I think its fixeable. I think I'll reheat it and stir it again and try to restart the reaction. I got less that 10% converted so its got lots of meth and KOH in there to react.
I've had the whole "unwashed BD epitamy" which I'm still not sure about. All I know is I'm not trying to create ASTM standard BD. I'll leave that to the UNI's and commercial producers.
A plant is supposedly to be built at Nerangbah. That would be "good value". They hope to float on the Stock exchange this week funnily enough. Their prospectus was oversubscribed by five times. Thats VERY interesting. They will be one to watch come Dec 14.
I forget else what happened Like I said its been a big week.
Me tired...Need sleep now.
J
I'll start with the wins.
I undertook a mission to make contact with as many user as I could from the US sites that lived here in aus. I had a good number of responses and have tapped into amazing undergroud well of users who have been making and using quietly for more than 6 years.
I investigated an WVO lead and found a sticker with a phone number of a local BD user. (local hell you dont know how local) Peda you might be interested to know about this guy. I would have driven less that 1 kilometer past his house on the way home every day from work. He says his crew meet and have a beer, talk and make BD. How cool is that. They also can get very cheap Methanol. He has given me a cheaper quote for methanol for a 200Lt drum.
I am slowly working through what I'll need for a 20 litre processor. This has taken longer than anticipated. And another bummer I blew a test batch of WVO. I think I didn't mix enough and have gotten a nowhere near incomplete conversion. I think its fixeable. I think I'll reheat it and stir it again and try to restart the reaction. I got less that 10% converted so its got lots of meth and KOH in there to react.
I've had the whole "unwashed BD epitamy" which I'm still not sure about. All I know is I'm not trying to create ASTM standard BD. I'll leave that to the UNI's and commercial producers.
A plant is supposedly to be built at Nerangbah. That would be "good value". They hope to float on the Stock exchange this week funnily enough. Their prospectus was oversubscribed by five times. Thats VERY interesting. They will be one to watch come Dec 14.
I forget else what happened Like I said its been a big week.
Me tired...Need sleep now.
J
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