"David I. Raines" wrote:

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Just a couple of thoughts, Jim.

Rape (Canola) oil is a non-drying oil and was used (highly refined) as
a high-speed lubricant at one time.

You need to add pitch or resin to it to make a decent lamp fuel.

[ That's what the Ukrainians do, anyway. ]

Makes good soap too.

Wood gas is a *much* better idea for fuel and light. A fraction of the
work.


Actually the distillation of wood will produce methanol which
when added to Rapeseed oil and place under pressure at 350 C.
produces a biodiesel that is only slightly dirtier than petroleum
based diesel fuels but with no sulfur dioxide emissions and lower
CO2 emissions, yet delivers 94.5% of the power out put of diesel.

The methalesterfication of rapeseed oil as well as peanut oil,
soybean oil, corn oil, olive oil, cottonseed oil, is a fairly
straight forward process that produces a generally high quality
biodiesel fuel from the oils. The creation of biodiesel fuel
plants are well advanced in Japan, France and Germany were many
commercial busses and taxies are running on biodiesel.

With the cheap manufacturing of Methanol from natural gas
and the abundance of vegetable oils in this country it is thought
that biodiesel could be economically competitive with petroleum
based diesel but with lower toxic emissions of green house
gases such as elimination of SO2 and lower CO2 emissions.
The dirty emissions from biodiesel is mainly soot which is
carbon and filters out of the atmosphere very quickly.

I am looking at the method of the methalesterfication of
rapeseed oil, and other oils too, in order to make biodiesel
in event of TEOTWAWKI scenario.

I have the layout of the equipment in a university lab in
Japan that did a lot of research into the methalesterfication
of Rapeseed oil to convert it into RME.

It was a stainless steel metal cylinder that allowed the raw
oil methanol mix to be pumped into the bottom, heated to 350
degrees centigrade (750 degrees fhernhite) and pressurize
the cylinder to 900 psi before the pressure valve allowed the
vapor to escape into a cooling tower to liquefy into biodiesel.

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