I spoke with Adam, President, at Steep Hill Halent Laboratories in Oakland, Ca.
He assured me that the next step will be pinpointing the exact compounds within the two generalized groupings that the chemist found in his initial GC/MS 'mass fragmentation' analysis.
Those groups were Linear Alkanes and Aromatic Compounds.
The chemist working this project--whose background is in petroleum distillates--will be working the Mystery Oil sample on the GC/MS for a second time on Tuesday or Wednesday. And we should know more then.
Sorry for the slow progress; as I indicated originally, the Lab didn't think we would get to the bottom of this overnight.
Thank-you for your continued patience and interest and input! Everyone has been great!
Friday, August 30, 2013
Thursday, August 29, 2013
News from Newport/Keen
EVIDENCE FROM THE SOURCE!
Newport says their cans contain "oils, waxes, charcoal dust, etc." at less than 50ppm.
I received a follow-up email from Newport/Keen "Near Zero Impurities", Managing Director, Paula Hussain. She states that the cans have 50ppm or less of "oil, wax, charcoal dust etcetera".
However, it is all relative to the amount of BHO that is produced from one can.
From what I know, one can produces around 4grams of BHO.
If each can contains Ms. Hussain's stated ppm of 50, then that leaves .015grams of these "impurities" per 10oz can.
.015 grams of impurities in 4grams of BHO equals 3,750ppm.
IF ALL the impurities are in the end-product, that is high!
Here is her entire response to my question about the 'Mystery Oil'--
"Traditional refineries produced butane propellant with an uncontrolled non-volatile content of impurities including oil, wax substances, charcoal dust etcetera which was not a problem for filling lighters until 1983 when the so-called "flameless" heat-generated turbo lighter was invented in Japan. In order to market this lighter it was established that the non-volatile impurity content of the butane could not exceed fifty parts per one million parts. Our company was assigned this problem which enabled the inventors to market the new product by 1985. Since then numerous diversifications of the concept have appeared. Our exclusive "Near Zero Impurities" has been included on all butane refills that we produce to differentiate our butane refills from all others."
Regards,
Paula Hussain
Managing Director
1 Northbrook Street
Newbury
Berkshire RG14 1DJ
England
Telephone: 44 (0) 1635 34600
Fax: 44 (0) 1635 33360
www.keen-newport.com
Newport says their cans contain "oils, waxes, charcoal dust, etc." at less than 50ppm.
I received a follow-up email from Newport/Keen "Near Zero Impurities", Managing Director, Paula Hussain. She states that the cans have 50ppm or less of "oil, wax, charcoal dust etcetera".
However, it is all relative to the amount of BHO that is produced from one can.
From what I know, one can produces around 4grams of BHO.
If each can contains Ms. Hussain's stated ppm of 50, then that leaves .015grams of these "impurities" per 10oz can.
.015 grams of impurities in 4grams of BHO equals 3,750ppm.
IF ALL the impurities are in the end-product, that is high!
Here is her entire response to my question about the 'Mystery Oil'--
"Traditional refineries produced butane propellant with an uncontrolled non-volatile content of impurities including oil, wax substances, charcoal dust etcetera which was not a problem for filling lighters until 1983 when the so-called "flameless" heat-generated turbo lighter was invented in Japan. In order to market this lighter it was established that the non-volatile impurity content of the butane could not exceed fifty parts per one million parts. Our company was assigned this problem which enabled the inventors to market the new product by 1985. Since then numerous diversifications of the concept have appeared. Our exclusive "Near Zero Impurities" has been included on all butane refills that we produce to differentiate our butane refills from all others."
Regards,
Paula Hussain
Managing Director
1 Northbrook Street
Newbury
Berkshire RG14 1DJ
England
Telephone: 44 (0) 1635 34600
Fax: 44 (0) 1635 33360
www.keen-newport.com
Wednesday, August 28, 2013
Lab Update
Steep Hill Halent Labs completed its initial RSA on its GC/MS.
The chemist says that "the mass fragmentation of the major peaks contain some LINEAR ALKANES and AROMATIC COMPOUNDS."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Aromatic_compounds
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alkane
An exact identification has not been made. Steep Hill Halent Labs' work has just begun.
More to come. We will keep you posted. Thank-you for your patience.
The chemist says that "the mass fragmentation of the major peaks contain some LINEAR ALKANES and AROMATIC COMPOUNDS."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Aromatic_compounds
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alkane
An exact identification has not been made. Steep Hill Halent Labs' work has just begun.
More to come. We will keep you posted. Thank-you for your patience.
Tuesday, August 20, 2013
Lab Update
I have spoken with SteepHill Labs and I am going to drop-off a sample of the oil on Thursday. The plan, upon consultation with SteepHill, is to begin to build a 'structure' so that BHO extracts can be tested for this 'Mystery Oil'.Thank you to everyone for your continued interest and support.
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