Biodiesel ingredients

[Handel]

Hello everyone,
i'm trying to figure out what the prices for the two ingredients needed to make biodiesel are, in the dominican republic.
They are: Methanol, or wood alcohol, and caustic soda (sodium hydroxide)
Methanol is used for racing car fuel just in case that info might be useful.

Muchas gracias
Handel

[Handel]

errr...perhaps to clarify WHAT biodiesel is

Its an alternative totally renewable environmentally friendly (i hate that term) diesel fuel, made from vegetable oil. Its very
simple to make, and it WORKS, and I'm considering experiementing with it in the DR, but i wanted to do some pre-research on cost of ingredients.

if ya'll need more info, lemme know..

[lhtown]

I haven't heard of either of those two ingredientes here. Are you thinking of commercial possibilites as in marketing the stuff here (forget it) or just experimenting to try to come up with a way to make something work that might be useful somewhere else?

[Handel]

Hmmmm...yes, I was planning to make the product for use in the DR on a small scale, as a means for rural communities to earn extra income from their renewable resource base.

Well, maybe anyone knows of ppl who make home made soaps in the DR. The caustic soda needed to make soaps is the same for making the biodiesel. So if soap making is done somewhere, they might help me source where to find the caustic soda at least.

[Hillbilly]

Jabonería Valencia
809 581-1256
Fax 583 3408

Unilever Dominicana
809 732 2222

César Iglesias, C x A
809 535 5511

Always glad to help!

HB

[Handel]

I'll dance at your wedding Hillbilly !!

Definately usful info. Many thanks !!!!!

[Chris]

Originally posted by Handel
I'll dance at your wedding Hillbilly !! :

You must be a Southerner Handel - the only place where I've ever heard this saying was in a town called Tupelo (birthplace of Elvis Presley) in Missippi... How far off am I?

[Handel]

LOL...I AM way down south Chris, but not where you might think. Barbados is where I hail from.

Barbados DID have way back in the 17th and 18th Century, lots of ties with those southern states tho. Matter of fact, there is still a lot of Barbadian vestiges left in those neck o' the woods.

I'm not too sure if Barbados got the saying from the States or if they got it from us. I just heard my granny say it a whole lot.

[Barnabe]

Hi Handel,

glad you followed my advice on www.webdominicana.fr

I am still waiting the day when Hillbilly cannot answer a question about dr business!

BTW I read on a biodiesel site a few month ago that this kind of stuff was somewhat dangerous to manipulate?

[pasha]

strip any lubricating properties off where there's metal on metal contact/oil?

Best, P