From the Publisher:Biodiesel Basics and Beyond draws on the collective experience of North American and European researchers, with the author detailing the step-by-step processes and equipment required to produce biodiesel fuel that can meet North American standards. The book details the construction and operation of a 30-gallon-per-day (115-liter), scalable-size biodiesel production facility, including a test and measurement laboratory for determining fuel quality. Each process or method is verified by independent government or university laboratories, ensuring the reader of the accuracy of both the data and the methodology.Although most people are primarily interested in the economic benefits of biodiesel production, considerable information is given on waste product reduction and treatment including water recycling, methanol recovery, and the productive use of process technology byproducts.Biodiesel Basics and Beyond will not solve the world's fuel and energy supply problems, but it will provide homeowners, small-scale co-operatives and farmers, and agricultural communities with the data necessary to become energy independent and make their homes and businesses environmentally sustainable.About the Author:William (Bill) Kemp, is Vice President, Engineering, of Powerbase Automation Systems Inc. and a consulting electronics/software designer who develops control systems for low environmental impact hydroelectric utilities. Mr. Kemp is also the principal system architect of the Synergy Biogas Consortium, acting as the business and technology manager. He is an author and sustainable living and clean energy advocate working in such areas as renewable energy heating, energy efficiency, and photovoltaic, small-hydro, and wind electric systems. Bill is a leading expert in small- and mid-scale (The Renewable Energy Handbook and $mart Power: An Urban Guide to Renewable Energy and Efficiency. Mr. Kemp is a co-author of the David Suzuki Foundation report Smart Generation: Powering Ontario with Renewable Energy. In addition he has published numerous articles on small-scale private power and is the chairman of an electrical safety standards committee with the Canadian Standards Association. He and his wife Lorraine live off the electrical grid on their hobby/horse farm in eastern Ontario.
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