[Assam] How to make Bio Diesel

Fri Aug 25 17:49:21 PDT 2006

Hi all

Making bio diesel (BD)is very simple. In Punjab and Haryana, the ingenious
farmers make it on a big 'tawa'- (huge cooking pot) and run their tractors
on it.

In fact all vegetable oils can be converted into bio-diesel. It is done by
direct acid catalyzed esterification of the oil with methanol. The process
is batch type. 10% Methanol is added into the oil with 1% peroxide and
 heated in a reactor for 4 hours at 65 degrees C. The end product is settled
in a tank and glycerine (10%) and biodiesel (89%) separates out.

Jetropha is widely used as the base stock for biodiesel in India, because
it's cheap and has a very high yield (upto 35%). All other cheap TBO (Tree
Born Oilseeds) can be used to make BD.

If we blend 5% BD with normal diesel, by 2007 India will need 2.6 million
tonnes of BD.

Check for more info www.pcra-biofuel.org.

cheers

On 8/26/06, Himendra Thakur <hthakur at comcast.net> wrote:
>
>   Mr. Jay Talton
>
> P.O. Box 7953
>
> GA-31209-7953, USA
>
>
>
> Dear Mr. Talton,
>
>
>
> On August 23, I clicked at your link *Make Biodiesel* and saw that you
> were asking for US$67 for information as to how to make biodiesel. You did
> not mention whether the * "rates" *of the product that you are selling
> will be* "depending on IQ level of purchaser"* as declared by your
> friend Mukul as per his *CONFESSION *appended at the end of this letter.
>
>
>
>
> I was interested in biodiesel and I wrote letters to you asking a few
> preliminary questions. You answered to my two letters that it was possible
> to manufacture biodiesel in a densely populated city, by utilizing a 10 feet
> x 10 feet room in the house with windows open. However, when I asked you in
> my third letter about the smell and about the solid waste generated by the
> process and raw materials needed, you stopped answering. I then clicked at
> your link *Make Biodiesel* and got bounced back with a message "We are
> sorry, but the page you are requesting has been removed or disabled."
>
>
>
> The biodiesel idea got started with your letter to Mr. Mukul Chandra
> Mahanta (Subject: *Mukul, Go on a homemade fuel powered road trip. *Date:
> *Wed, 23 Aug 2006 10:16:53 -0400 *) that Mr. Mahanta posted in the
> assam-net.
>
>
>
> A number of participants in the assam-net consider any posting by Mr.
> Mukul Chandra Mahanta as a gospel. Mr. Rajen Baruah has recently declared
> Mr. Mukul Chandra Mahanta as "learned MM" while advising "local youth in
> Guwahati"  to "dig a deep well"  "If you have a plot of land in Guwahati"
> ----  Guwahati is a city reportedly populated by 2,515,030 people on an
> area 4,345 km²   (density 579/ km²) *without any sewer system.* Leeching
> fields of neighbors overlap. *Many houses discharge raw sewage into open
> city drains*. Neither Mr. Mahanta nor Mr. Barua discussed how to keep the
> "deep well" rainwater reservoir free from sewage contamination. Mr. Rajen
> Barua stimulates the "local youth in Guwahati" with the idea that "You may
> need little or *no filtration* at all."
>
>
>
> While promoting Mr. Mukul Chandra Mahanta's idea of storing rainwater in
> a "deep well", Mr. Rajen Barua also incites "local youth in Guwahati" with
> the ideas such as "You have unlimited supply of free water. You may not
> even need a license."
>
>
>
> A license infuses responsibility and accountability. By inciting "local
> youth in Guwahati" with the idea "You may not even need a license", Mr.
> Rajen Barua has actually promoted the style of Mr. Mukul Chandra Mahanta
> whose *irresponsible building-construction killed at least one man*according to Mr. Mukul Chandra Mahanta's own confession appended below.
> Actual number of death under Mahanta Buildings may be more, which should be
> investigated.
>
>
>
> I appeal to the participants of assam-net to express their sorrow for this
> innocent victim of  Mr. Mukul Chandra Mahanta. I also appeal to
> participants of Assam-net to open a Trust Fund to help the family of the
> dead man. I'll send $100/- as my donation to start this fund
>
>
>
> And now, we have the idea of your homemade bio-diesel plant at the hands
> of Mr. Mukul Chandra Mahanta whose words may be taken as gospel truth by "local
> youth in Guwahati" because Mr. Mukul Chandra Mahanta is described as "learned
> MM" by Mr. Rajen Barua, and accepted by other netters.
>
>
>
> Unless you prove otherwise with enough information and design details,
> I'll consider a home manufacturing plant of bio-diesel will be unsuitable in
> the City of Guwahati. However, it maybe a good idea in open countryside,
> provided all the precautions are taken. Please let us know the details.
>
>
>
> With the best wishes,
>
> Himendra Barthakur
>
> **
>
> *APPENDIX: CONFESSION OF MR. MUKUL CHANDRA MAHANTA dated August 21, 2006:*
>
>  *< complete report under oath in the net about how many of his
> prefabricated buildings collapsed and how many people died or got injured.>
> *
>
> *Gladly : Pakor Liyaa!!*
>
> *Under Oath-so be it!:  "I shall speak the truth, all the truth and
> nothing but the truth" .*
>
> * Let God give wisdom to all halfwits ,nitwits,perjurers and below-average
> hypocrites!*
>
>    - *3 buildings  collapsed out of the  32 total built -all proudly
>    standing . I never Reinforce Concrete with Bamboo.It cannot work.NoGovt. or anybody  helped me to invent my epoch-breaking housing solution.
>    Only as they say "Hum to Chaley Bazaaro mey, Kuttey Bhukey Hazaaron sey". My
>    IPR can be purchased at reasonable rates-depending on IQ level of
>    purchaser.*
>    - *1 person succumbed to injuries 3 days later after debris fell on
>    his body. **He was sleeping below at ground level-when a tie beam
>    snapped at 2nd floor.I was not at that site since 4 month
>    earlier.High court absolved me and the owner after 3 years.*
>    - *Happy Now?*
>
> *
>
> My system is cool pucca Ghar in summer, Warm in Winter, theoretically 9
> times more shock resistant in Earthquakes, needs 25% labour,25%
> material ,almost no foundation costs, fully recyclable--THE future Green
> housing Technology for the 3rd world!
>
> Don't like it?
>
> Then lump it.
>
> mm
> *
>
> [  *End of Appendix* ]
> ----- Original Message ----- *From:* mc mahant <mikemahant at hotmail.com>
> *To:* assam at assamnet.org
> *Sent:* Wednesday, August 23, 2006 11:40 AM
> *Subject:* [Assam] FW: Mukul ,Go on a homemade fuel powered road trip.
>
>
>
>
>
>  ------------------------------
> From: *"Jay Talton" <biodieselmakers at gmail.com>*
> To: *"Mukul Mahant" <mikemahant at hotmail.com>*
> Subject: *Mukul ,Go on a homemade fuel powered road trip.*
> Date: *Wed, 23 Aug 2006 10:16:53 -0400*
>
> Hello Mukul,
>
> I've been on the road this week and
>
> the SMOG in some of these larger
>
> cities is terrible.
>
> One of the biggest differences that biodiesel
> make is with regards to smog. Using biodiesel
> actually REDUCES smog.
>
> It also helps when you PASS BY GAS
> STATIONS, without stopping.  You don't
> need them when you make your own fuel.
>
> Make Biodiesel  <http://clicks.aweber.com/z/ct/?qmmmc5hX_KdNQFsMTYbvxg>
>
> Make larger batches for road trips or
> start off with smaller batches and blend
> it with petro diesel to get the hang it.
>
> You can run your vechicle on 100% biodiesel
> if you have a diesel vehicle.  More and more
> car companies are manufacturing diesel-run
> vehicles.
>
> It's the new "practical hybrid"....
> thanks to biodiesel.
>
> Make Biodiesel <http://clicks.aweber.com/z/ct/?qmmmc5hX_KdNQFsMTYbvxg>
>
> Manufacturing your own fuel at home
> will become as common as washing your
> own clothes...or cooking your own breakfast.
> It just makes sense.
>
> Talk soon,
>
> Jay Talton
>
> P.S.- The personal, economic, and enviromental
> benefits of biodiesel is catching on.  Find out how
> you can establish connections to supply the resources
> you need.
>
> Make Biodiesel  <http://clicks.aweber.com/z/ct/?qmmmc5hX_KdNQFsMTYbvxg>
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