Re: [Biofuel] Volkswagon Rabbit and Cummings 5.9 Diesel
Keith. I have yet to make fuel of the quality and clarity as displayed in your reference photo. One improvement I made this year was to purchase a cone bottom tank for settling the batch. It has helped. But my biggest obstacle is patience. I have gotten sloppy making fuel during the summer and the quality shows. I also do not have a heated garage so I can not make fuel during the winter. I'll be making my last batch any weekend now. I'll make an extra effort to make some show fuel. I is just too easy to make fuel that works. I have to try harder to make good fuel. Michael On 9/25/07, Keith Addison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Michael Both engines will run B100. Any diesel will run B100. snip I live in northern Wisconsin. Making biodiesel from waste vegetable oil does not make as good a fuel as from virgin oil. It is possible, but requires a lot more time to wash and dry, and I still end up with a fuel that is not usable in temps below 30F. I think many people will disagree. This fuel was made from WVO, standard production run: http://snipurl.com/pie8 [Biofuel] Biodiesel test results We've used it at 100% down to -5 deg C, 23 deg F. With a pour-point depressant additive it was okay down to -10 to -12 deg C (10-14 deg F), it doesn't get any colder than that here. A couple of years ago we fitted an Elsbett system and now we don't need the additive and use 100% WVO biodiesel all year round. (We were using SVO in the summer but we prefer biodiesel to SVO, our main interest in the Elsbett system in the first place was better winter use.) More information on using biodiesel in winter here: http://journeytoforever.org/biodiesel_winter.html Biodiesel in winter Best Keith ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (70,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/attachments/20070926/0a8b0b54/attachment.html ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (70,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
Re: [Biofuel] Volkswagon Rabbit and Cummings 5.9 Diesel
Both engines will run B100. It is the fuel system that will eventually need repairs. A sudden switch to the clean biodiesel fuel will result in a thorough cleaning out of the existing crud in the fuel system, which will end up in the fuel filter. So, plan for it, and have a spare filter on hand. In the near term future any rubber components of the fuel system will dissolve and begin to leak. I have a '92 Chevy 6.2L with no modifications at all. It has been burning blends of biodiesel for two years with no leaks, but I will not be surprised when they start. On the other hand a leak is easy to discover and makes finding the failed part easy to identify. I live in northern Wisconsin. Making biodiesel from waste vegetable oil does not make as good a fuel as from virgin oil. It is possible, but requires a lot more time to wash and dry, and I still end up with a fuel that is not usable in temps below 30F. From experience I now begin blending when the overnight lows reach 40F. When the overnight lows reach 30F I am at a 50% blend, and by 0F I do not use any biodiesel. But days of below zero temps are not many. I only purchased one tank of all petro-diesel last winter. Last winter my truck failed to start three separate times, and each time required a tow to a heated garage to thaw out. However, in defense of biodiesel I need to admit that each time it failed to start we found a needed repair on the truck. The first failure we discovered the glow plug relay was not cycling properly, the second failure, we found the fuel heater was not cycling on at all, and the third failure we found the circuit I use to plug in the engine block heater was tripped (bad extension cord). So I can blame biodiesel for last year's problems. We will see this winter if my diesel ownership skills have improved. Bottom line, go for it. You will learn what you need as you go. Michael On 9/25/07, Tony Marzolino [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello List, I just purchased a 1984 Rabbit. Also a friend has a 1989 Dodge with a 5.9 turbo diesel Cummings engine. Are they any modification needed to these cars before running bio-diesel? We live in upstate NY, so I assume B100 would not work in the winter. What is a suggested mixture (i.e. B75 or B50)? Thanks, Tony Marzolino - Building a website is a piece of cake. Yahoo! Small Business gives you all the tools to get online. -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/attachments/20070925/4b18a50c/attachment.html ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (70,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/attachments/20070925/37f1eab9/attachment.html ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (70,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
Re: [Biofuel] new topic
On 9/19/07, Jan Warnqvist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, my time here in Ageratec has provided me with some observations which I would like the list members to share with me: We are in the business of producing energy from sources which originally are meant for food purposes or food waste. It is obvious that this new energy sector has very few of the traditional energy suppliers, rather new actors in this field of green energy. I don't think the renewable energy industry is nearly as profitable as the existing oil industry. The investments in renewables by big oil is only to comply with mandatory state and federal requirements. If renewables ever take off and actually threaten their profits the oil giants will have tens of billions of dollars available to buyout everyone, and in the end they own it all again. It is happening with ethanol production. What started as cooperatively owned ethanol plants financed by groups of local farmers has grown into highly capitalized publicly owned corporations not owned by farmers at all. Non-farm investors are buy up ethanol production plants and farmers are back to growing a commodity crop and suffering the whims of the market and speculators. Here in Sweden the farmers are buying wind mills, selling the power to the power distributors, the paper and pulp industry is burning the black liqueur residue and producing power from it, both for own consumption and for sales. Some farmers are growing canola, producing biodiesel from it for own consumption and for sales. The ethanol industry has begun to shift from approaching ethanol as a solvent to treating it as fuel. There is a new combinative proposing that wood should be used for producing methanol for energy purposes. None of these areas have mineral oil companies, nuclear, coal or hydro power companies or any other traditional suppliers of energy involved in their business. This teaches us that the new energy will be dominated by new actors, which means that there is a great need for knowledge and know-how both for the energy products as such, and also for the energy business itself. This demand exsists not only within the actors, but also within the authorities, the traditional actors and the industry used to produce food etc. The same development will no doubt strike the lubricant industry. The new green lubricants will no doubt be forced out into the market by new actors. So we are actually into a process which will change the power balance, intensely stalled by the traditional actors and anybody who gains from their power. This may be a long hard struggle, be the outcome is given on forehand: If we want to consume energy it has to be renewable. We may have to decrease our consumption, but that does not mean that our welfare or independence will suffer. On the contrary, this is a major stimulation for new technology, new solutions and - for new actors. So - hang in there, even to your nails. Jan Warnqvist -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/attachments/20070919/625bf774/attachment.html ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (70,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/attachments/20070919/0261f1f1/attachment.html ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (70,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
