injectors don't coke up when the preheated oil engine is started and shutdown on regular diesel, or biodiesel.
Steve Spence Subscribe to the Renewable Energy Newsletter: http://www.webconx.com/subscribe.htm Renewable Energy Pages - http://www.webconx.com Palm Pilot Pages - http://www.webconx.com/palm X10 Home Automation - http://www.webconx.com/x10 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (212) 894-3704 x3154 - voicemail/fax We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children. -- ----- Original Message ----- From: "Geoff Pritchard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <biofuel@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Monday, February 12, 2001 10:20 PM Subject: Re: [biofuel] Electricity Generation and Ethanol in Engines > Hi Mike, > > I'm pretty sure that you can run a gasoline engine on straight ethanol > (but it can be as little as 70% pure - balance is water) distilled from > home. Only possible modification would be larger jets in carb. OR drill > them out a bit. Ethanol also may be a little difficult to start a cold > engine with on a cold morn, thus some suggest using a starter tank (like > a windshield washer fluid tank) just to start the engine. This info. > comes from a couple of books on making your own ETOH for fuel out of the > '70s fuel crisis. Like I've mentioned before, the pure ETOH (100% or > 200 proof stuff) is necessary for gasahol production to "mix" > properly. OK! One of you chemists out there jump in and straighten out > the goof ups in my logic---there are many. > > > Also, the recent info (last 10yrs) I've seen on running straight veg oil > (rape or otherwise) in an injected diesel motor shows that 1)injectors > "coke up" rapidly (clean or replace) and other internal engine wear that > I don't remember specifics of. There's quite a bit of info. from > University of Idaho Bioengineering Group in this regard. If you're > interested, I can look up some Grad student theses on the topic (it > might even be on my desk as we speak). > > > Ciao > > > Geoff > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > Hi there, new member here, fascinated by the discussion. I've been > > doing alot of reading, trying to work things through in my mind, and > > I need help on two issues, probably fairly basic to everyone else, > > but I need clarifying: > > > > 1. Current thinking is that I can add 10-15%home distilled ethanol to > > my petrol, without modifying the engine. O.K.If I want to go to 100% > > ethanol, then I'll have to modify (as in motherearth modification) > > > > In the book, "makin it on the Farm", several pioneers mention running > > unmodified engines for thousands of miles on what seems neat ethanol. > > Also, are all the cars in brazil modified. Please explain. > > > > 2. An old message on this list spoke about running a diesel engine on > > pre-heated rapeseed oil to drive a generator to supply the grid. Does > > anyone know any links/more info on supplying UK national grid with > > electricity, on what would be a fairly small scale. > > > > Thanks Mike > > > > > > Biofuel at Journey to Forever: > > http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html > > To unsubscribe, send an email to: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Biofuel at Journey to Forever: > http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html > To unsubscribe, send an email to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~-~> eGroups is now Yahoo! Groups Click here for more details http://click.egroups.com/1/11231/0/_/837408/_/982063910/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------_-> Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
