Does this recipe sound right??
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Does this recipe sound right??
Does this boidiesel recipe sound right to you guys??
30 Gallons of used oil
6.6 Gallons of methanol
567.9 grams of lye/or 20 ounces
---the oil is very, very clean and almost brand new in this batch...do those numbers look correct?
30 Gallons of used oil
6.6 Gallons of methanol
567.9 grams of lye/or 20 ounces
---the oil is very, very clean and almost brand new in this batch...do those numbers look correct?
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What kind of lye? What did the oil titration show?
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i have Rooto Household 100% lye....and in my titration i ended up adding 2/5 of 1 ml of the lye/water solution, which i think would be .0004 g/L...right? then plugged these numers in the bio-diesel recipe calculator online, and i got 567.9 grams.
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Rooto is NaOH.
Your titration didn't take much. You could just use the base amount. Base for NaOH is 5g/liter. So for 30 gallons, you would need about 600g or 1.3 pounds.
I would use a little more methanol than that. Some use 20% and some use 25% so you're in the ballpark.
Your titration didn't take much. You could just use the base amount. Base for NaOH is 5g/liter. So for 30 gallons, you would need about 600g or 1.3 pounds.
I would use a little more methanol than that. Some use 20% and some use 25% so you're in the ballpark.
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Seems to me like you might be going a bit light on the lye...
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