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Sent to General Experts April 7 2006 at 6:33 PM
   

what is the small scale way of separting the germ in corn so i can extract the oil from it (for biodiesel) and with the rest make etanol for my jeep?how do i separate the oil( for biodiesel)
then use the rest for ethanol(e-85)for my jeep.and be able to do this at my house.

 

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April 7 2006 at 7:02 PM (28 minutes and 21 seconds later)
         
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o.e.,

Are you wanting the entire process w/ still?

Are you willing to pay for the blueprints & procedure($30)?

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April 7 2006 at 9:29 PM (2 hours and 27 minutes and 22 seconds later)
         
Reply to Jean's Post: i already have a still set up in my garage for making ethanol.i alreay make my own biodiesel.i am just wanting to know how to use the same corn that i make my ethanol with to get corn oil for my biodiesel.
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April 8 2006 at 5:10 PM (19 hours and 41 minutes and 8 seconds later)
         
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o.e.,


The commercial method for producing corn
oil won't work too well on a small scall basis. When corn is milled the germ is seperated from the rest of the corn kernel. The seperated germ is then heated and pressed to squeeze out the oil.

You could try to just press whole kernel corn in a hydraulic oil press, sut from what I've read it wouldn't be too effective. When comparing corn to soybeans, peanuts, or sunflower seeds, it doesn't have a very high oil content. Extracting the oil is only effective when doing so in large quantities. Hence, if you use one of the aforementioned sources, the process will be streamlined and more effective.

Following are links including directions, process, forums, & additional resources.

http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel_library/pressextract.html

http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel_library/oilpress.html

http://journeytoforever.org/

Additionally, I have provided a like regarding ethanol recovery.

http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel_library/ethanol_grits.html

I appreciate your patience in regards to yoour waiting while I researched this answer.

Thank you,

LiddyBea

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