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Use Vegetable Oil If You Have A Diesel Car
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They are. However, with transesterification being the process of breaking down the ester bonds and recombining with another alcohol, if these single (and sometimes) double bonds are broken and not recombined, the resultant will not be an ester.
Absolutely, I think the product would smell so much that you would find a better supplier.
So, hopefully we are all in agreement that WVO would have to be pretty rank, to fall below standards, after proper filtering and dewatering to use directly as fuel, or for making biodiesel.
Correct.
Water retards the transesterifcation process and needs removing either by settleing or evaporating.
And in answer to the earlier post, I am still manufacturung my own bio diesel. I collect free waste oil from a few outlets and then convert into bio diesel by transesterification. My methanol supplier takes my glycerin off me for free. I calculate my costs at 20p per litre maximum, including methanol, kaoh and power.
I have found that by doing a 5% prewash before washing, this reduces my wash cycle and means that I can be a little more vigorous with the washing without the likelihood of an emulsion forming.Don't lie, thieve, cheat or steal. The Government do not like the competition.
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