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My sawdust is all mahogany. Any hardwood seems to be fine - I even got some amazonian purpleheart wood once which worked fine. You people across the pond swear by red oak, but we dont have that here. I used english (or scottish?) oak shavings from a whisky cooper which worked well until they started selling it to fish smokers. But sawdust was better - did a complete job with no lag time whereas shavings had to pass thru slowly. Heres my set...

Ah, the frugal Scots. Leave it to them to find a simple yet economical way to adress a problem.

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Hi Everbody, Not sure if it's been mentioned (i havent looked through all the pages here), but have you guys looked at an MSDS for Eco2pure? It contains a "wood product" along with Aluminum Silicate. This makes it very similar to Magnesol (they use Magnesium Silicate) to clean the fuel through a molecular sieze-type of action. The Eco2pure is using Al2Si3 listed on it's MSDS(same molecular sieve action). The...

[quote]does anybody have a step by step instruction manual to making a dry wash processor?/quote] I don't remember seeing any vendor on the forum with step by step instructions; however, there have been many threads on the topic and many photographs of tower construction in progress. You just need to do a little research in this section of the forum. First, you need to know what kind of dry washing/filtering medium you plan to use. Dry...

quote: Originally posted by Jehu: Is this a wind up? Ion exchange resin works by substituting the H+ for the Na+ in soap to create FFA, as you say. You cant exchange sodium for sodium - you'd still be left with the same soapy biodiesel. Lanxess certainly sell it as an Ion exchange resin. The following is from their product information quote: http://www.lewatit.com/ion/en/products/ion_result.php and the MSDS mentions the following quote:...

quote: Originally posted by RickDaTech: Here is an article on the different resins used in biodiesel purification. Lewatit GF 202 is one of the resins discussed. http://www.make-biodiesel.org/ionxresins/ trying to reach RickDaTech, jdp@ldl.net, columbus, ga. anyone that knows how to reach him ask him to email me re opportunity. thanks

Here is an article on the different resins used in biodiesel purification. Lewatit GF 202 is one of the resins discussed. http://www.make-biodiesel.org/ionxresins/

I work on a farm and have access to a wood chipper and lots of varieties of trees for wood chips. We are building a 400 gallon reactor and are going AE (acid esterification) to reduce our soaps. It seems that if we do 2 "stacks" of wood chips made out of 2-55 gallon drums, we can remove our soaps fairly well. What are the best species of hardood to use? I have access to lots of Ash and Red Oak. Both are dense woods. Do I need to...

hi im new to the site and was wondering if there is anyone that has pictures or helpful instructions on making my own dry wash processor. it would be helpful as to what would be a good process to clean the bio diesel because ive been water washing my BD for about a year and a half and that process takes to long. every time i mist wash it emulsifys. so my question is does anybody have a step by step instruction manual to making a dry wash...