I'd think you can "spin" whatever exhaust smell there is in a positive manner: "We're using environmentally-friendly biofuel -- you may notice a slight odor like bread baking, rather than the stench of diesel fumes!"
I think 300m is a good buffer for odor. They'll only smell it when the wind is...
"Do you know of any way of mitigating the smell in the exhaust?"
Gee, I think of biodiesel as mitigating the smell of petrodiesel exhaust! :-)
The smell is certainly no more intense than petrodiesel exhaust, and considerably less objectionable.
Perhaps if we knew more about why your...
"If I heated straight vegetable oil... up to say 80 deg C, and put it into a hot Diesel engine, what type of problems would I be likely to see, and would the exhaust smell like French Fries?"
The second part is easier to answer: yes, it will smell like french fries -- or elephant ears, or...
Hi punkneko!
"I am looking for Comformation that newer moddle desile trucks (year 2000 and up) already has the technology inside the engine platform to run off of boi desiel."
No problem. In fact, any diesel of any age will work on properly made biodiesel with minimal impact. Biodiesel...
"Or maybe the people holding the grant money thought that businesses ought to stand on their own two feet."
The deliverable was to be a report, describing how various food services businesses could do this.
You're thinking I just wanted a handout to convert my own business. Shame on you.
FTech, good luck seeking grants! THAT's much harder than writing them!
I wrote a modest proposal (couple grand) for converting a food services business to supply their own transportation and heating needs via SVO and biodiesel. I've sent it to four funding organizations, and got polite...
"I wonder how long it will be before 'mining' old domestic waste land fill sites is financially viable?"
Any day now? Petroleum production is near peak levels, and must inevitably decline. Politicians, media, business -- they're all acting like it doesn't exist. Cheap energy has allowed humans...
"why is it that copper or copper-based lines would not be suitable for straight veggie oil?"
Did I say that? :-)
Sorry if I implied that. Copper is not recommended for biodiesel at the US Biodiesel Board website, but should not be a problem for vegoil.
I have a short segment in the VVG...
Tropical oils are not suitable to northern climates, neither for growing, nor for use. They have a high gel point and wax point, and will go solid on you well above freezing!
Rapeseed seems to be the oil of choice in colder areas. Germany puts a lot of RME (Rape methyl esters, or biodiesel made...
"I am also interested in possibly growing a crop to produce my own fuel. Does any one have any suggestions on what crop or pro's and con's of this idea."
Where do you live? Palm kernel oil will produce over ten tonnes per hectare.
If you're in a temperate climate, rapeseed seems to be the way...
I'm currently going through the exercise of pre-emptively replacing fuel lines in Veggie Van Gogh. I pulled the fuel lines, and they look to be in good shape, but I had to drop the tank anyway, so I'd rather do this at a time of my choosing than along the side of the road somewhere! :-)
Viton...
Northboundtrain wrote: "I have never heard of anyone successfully running a diesel engine on straight vegetable oil for the expected lifetime of the engine, i.e., 200k-300k miles..."
You might want to check out the vegoil-diesel Yahoo Group. There are people on this list who have in excess of...
In addition to aeliot's excellent posting, it should be noted that a property that makes biofuels an excellent combustion fuel also makes them a poor feedstock for organic chemistry: lack of cycles.
This means they don't put cancer-causing PAHs into the atmosphere when they burn, but it also...
I'm burning biodiesel in two vehicles (1985 Jetta and 1989 Cummins) and Waste Vegetable Oil (WVO) directly in Veggie Van Gogh.
There are some common misconceptions in this thread to date:
There are three ways to use vegetable oil in a common diesel engine, all of which have the common goal of...
