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How to make methanol

04/19/2009 11:48 PM

Guys,

I have heard that some slivers of wood can be dried distillated to produce methanol.

Put some wood slivers into a tube, heat the tube, then lead the vapor to water-ice pipe/hose, and get a few ml of methanol.

Anyone here have heard about this? then how many kg of wood slivers, what temperature of heating? and how ml of methanol resulted?

cheers,

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Re: How to make methanol

04/20/2009 12:12 AM

Cheers indeed!

Guy, it's too hard to do. Takes more than wood slivers.

Get a life.

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Re: How to make methanol

04/20/2009 1:25 AM

Actually, you'll need special bacteria to digest the wood cellulose down into simple sugars. After that, you'll need yeast to digest the sugars to produce alcohol. Dry distillation of wood only releases the volatile flammable gases within the wood. It can also be use for making charcoal.

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Re: How to make methanol

10/06/2009 12:15 PM

Hi

Yes I have been asking myself the same question and I have found these answers

http://www.green-trust.org/sawdust_ethanol.htm
http://www.almostfreefuel.com/methanol.html

http://running_on_alcohol.tripod.com/id1.html

I hope they are of some help.

to other people who cant be bothered to make a positive response perhaps this is a life

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Re: How to make methanol

10/06/2009 1:26 PM

Be sure to take the necessary precautions; methanol is VERY toxic to humans. But I'm sure you already knew that.

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