Have been searching around for references on using E85 as an ingredient for biodiesel with no success.
Methanol is pretty hard to obtain in Oz (thanks to drug labs), I've successfully used ethanol when I could get proper, dry ethanol, and the ethanol in E85 by nature MUST be dry.
So I picked up a gallon of E85 yesterday, put 200 odd ml in the bottom of an 800ml glass container, threw in some caustic soda (too much as it turns out), and some vegetable oil (cheapest home brand mixed oil).
On shaking, it went through a "milk shake" looking phase for a couple of seconds, before becoming homogenous.
An hour later, separation was evident.
Overnight, it's clearly a success, proper separation, and a greater "yield" than I've gotten before, which is obviously due to the 15% unleaded that is in the E85.
Methanol is pretty hard to obtain in Oz (thanks to drug labs), I've successfully used ethanol when I could get proper, dry ethanol, and the ethanol in E85 by nature MUST be dry.
So I picked up a gallon of E85 yesterday, put 200 odd ml in the bottom of an 800ml glass container, threw in some caustic soda (too much as it turns out), and some vegetable oil (cheapest home brand mixed oil).
On shaking, it went through a "milk shake" looking phase for a couple of seconds, before becoming homogenous.
An hour later, separation was evident.
Overnight, it's clearly a success, proper separation, and a greater "yield" than I've gotten before, which is obviously due to the 15% unleaded that is in the E85.