How much methanol does it take

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Old 02-28-2008, 02:43 PM
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How much methanol does it take

How much methanol does it take to make 100 gals of Bio Diesel?
 
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I think somewhere around 5 gallons if I remember correctly. I had some friends that did this for their college senior project. You can also recover most of the methanol if you make yourself a still-which a modified hot water heater works pretty good.
 
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Originally Posted by rrrrick
How much methanol does it take to make 100 gals of Bio Diesel?
20% by volume IE: 20 gallons of MeOH per 100 gallons of oil.
 




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