SOLAROILSYSTEMS BV- Tel.0561-421104
Alteveersweg 42
Fax.0561-421105
8392 MS BOIJL (Friesland) The Netherlands www.solaroilsystems.com
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Re.: BIOFUELS -European_Union( COM 2001-547-Proposal for a Council Directive )
Subject :Pure Plant Oil ( as an alternative fuel for Dieselengines)
User categories : transport,energy/heating generating appliances.
Dear Sir/Madam,
Since mid-1990, in Europe, U.S.A, The Far-East and Africa, research and
development has taken place to use Pure Plant Oil for diesel engine fuels, and
heating/energy(electricity) generating purposes.
Particularly in Europe during the last 5 years testprogrammes have been
succesfully implemented to use Pure Plant Oil as an alternative fuel for diesel
engines.
Today more than 5000 diesel-engine equiped vehicles and means of
transportation, are using
Pure Plant Oil instead of dieselfuel with amazing results, whereas the oldest
motorcar(mercedes) has driven more than 600.000 kilometers on Pure Plant Oil.
The categories of dieselengines using Pure Plant Oil are ranging from farm-
tractors,motorcars and trucks to locomotives and shipengines, as well as light
and heavy diesel generators.
Making dieselengines to completely accept Pure Plant Oil as fuel and still be
able to use dieselfuel, the engines are generally modified and equiped with
additional motorparts as developed by the famous Elsbett(Germany) dieselengine
division.
In the world of engines "ELSBETT" is known as frontrunner and innovator,
holding many patents of new applicable techniques for diesel engines. As
European awards winners (1997-1999), are they famous as the inventors of the
by motorcar/truck makers worldwide applied TDI-sytems(Turbo Diesel Injection),
making diesel engines run much more economical.
The developed techniques of Elsbett have made it possible to use both Pure
Plant Oil or diesel fuel, whichever preferable.(Dual-fuel engine).
Pure Plant Oil is derived from oilcontaining plants, like rapeseed, soybean ,
sunflower, palmoiltrees etc.
Rapeseed oil for example is an excellent plant oil, very suitable to grow in
Europe, giving a high yield of plant oil, and generally mainly used in the food
sector as edible oil.
In the Non-food sector it has gradually gained strong interest as a basic
component for the production of the socalled Biodiesel (RME).
Biodiesel is a chemically altered plantoil. As fuel it can be blended with
dieseloil, as well as
it can be used as a singular fuel,without modifying the diesel engine.
However the process to chemically change the structure of Pure Plant Oil, is a
very costly
operation and requires a lot of energy, as it removes the glycerine
substituting it by methanol as well as adding other chemicals, making the
endproduct poisenous and equally hazardous as dieselfuel.
Properties
Pure Plant Oil
Biodiesel (Raps-Methyl-
Ester (RME)
Production: - Low energy use: coldpressing - High energy
use: warmpressing
- Filtering
- chemically removing glycerine
- ready for use as fuel ! -
adding Methanol
- filtering
- removing catalysator
-distilling(removing surplus
Methanol)
-conditioning:adding components to
make fuel suitable for use in winter
-ready for use as fuel
.
Energy balance : excellent = 1:> 3,5 1:<1
non-toxid
poisenous
natural product no special precautions same
treatment for storage, transport
storage,transport,environment
environment as dieselfuel
good lubricant for engine parts
agressive for certain engine parts
Emissions
( Pure Plant Oil versus Diesel fuel )
CO : minus 50 %
CO2 : minus 100 %
HC : minus 40 %
Soot : minus 50 %
Pure Plant Oil contains practically no sulphur.
Pure Plant Oil is renewable Energy,sustainable and environmentally friendly.
Pure Plant Oil meets perfectly the aims , targets and strategy made by the
European Commission as proposed in the White Papers and Green Papers.
Pure Plant Oil therefore should be considered as serious alternative in the
range of biofuels, and be given special attention , consideration and support
as a future much promising energy carrier.
By facilitating Pure Plant Oil as a liquid fuel we introduce an energy carrier
of which
production, use, and transport can be limited within closed (regional) raw
material-and energy circuits.
Pure Plant Oil is an ideal form of "stored" sun(solar) energy.
1.
OBJECTIVES
The present use of fossile energy carriers leads to a disproportional increase
of CO2 in the
atmosphere.Both climatological consequences as well as (external-source)
dependency and finiteness are now generally feared and recognised.
In Europe almost 100% of the energy used for roadtraffic is covered by
fossile fuels.
For short-and long term it is important to strongly support the use of
alternative fuels where Pure Plant Oil can play a special roll.
Excessive production in the agricultural sector in Europe, has led to a
reduction in
cultivation of agro-areas for food production, as does funding for
non-cultivated farming
areas.The future negative financial- and social-psycological impact for farmers
cause an
unbalanced perspective for the European agro-sector.
By involving the European agro-sector as contributors to the chain of filling a
part of the future energy needs,new impulses will be generated which will be
beneficial for this languishing sector.
In cultivating Rapeseed as an example, the farmer can enjoy practically a full
output
of this product.
1- Pure Plant Oil
2- Rich proteine fodder, which replaces the " USA-imported" soybean fodder .1
3-Straw
Pure Plant Oil as renewable,sustainable and environmentally friendly biofuel
contributes to the well-being of the farmer, and his future prospects.
2.
BASICS for DECENTRALISED PLANTOIL PRODUCTION and PLANTOIL TECHNOLOGY
The concept to achieve an energysaving new energysource is to decentrally
produce and
use Pure Plant Oil as energy carrier, doing so by establishing small and
mediumsized "Oilmills" (Cold Press rapeseed installations) in rural regions.
( in Germany already more than 100 smaller and mediumsized oilmills are
operating on this basis, and numbers of new established oilmills rising every
year).
As an illustration we use an on-going oilmill project in Aachen(Germany) using
rape as basic
material.
* Annual substitution upto 2,36 million liters dieselfuel and heatingfuel by
Pure Plant Oil.
* Annual reduction upto 5.149 tons climate-relevant CO2 emissions in this
region.
* Annual replacement upto 4.720 tons of imported Soybeanfodder, produced as
co-product when cold-pressing rapeseed.
* Annual reduction of 29,5 million tonkilometers transport in the region.
* A stronger engagement of farmers in regional energy supply leading to
possibilities of participation in the energy sector.
* Implementation of a structure supporting rural added value creation i.e. job
security and the creation of new jobs in a future oriented renewable energy
sector.
2.1 THE DECENTRALISED CONCEPT
The idea of "Decentralised Systems" is based on following considerations:
A farmer generally needs to drive abt. 25 kilometers to transport his harvest
from the fields to his client(cooperative,warehouse, storage facilities,....).
In this case , situated in the middle of a rural region (decentral), the farmer
will bring his
harvest ( in North-Western Europe generally : rapeseed) to the local Oilmill.
All necessary steps for the rapeseed like drying,cleaning, coldpressing and
storage are taking place on this spot.
By this method the farmers are avoiding additional transport distances to and
from the few big(Hot press Industrial )oilmills,as usual in "Central Systems"
for plant oil production.
There is no doubt that optimising the CO2 balance already starts at this point.
When coldpressing the (rape) seeds 2 products emerge:
* Pure Plant Oil
* Rapeseed presscake2
The oil will be used as fuel ( for diesel engines), and technical oil.
The rich proteine rapeseed cake will be bought by the dairy farmers instead of
soybean cake, and given to the lifestock
By doing this ,on the foddersupply side the soyabeancake imports from abroad
will be substituted by a product locally/regionally produced, and on the
fuelsupply side imports of fossile fuels will be substituted by local/regional
produced plant oil.
Both in ecomical- and CO2 terms the advantages are significant.
By Illustration :
* One hektare land generates a rapeseed harvest (non-intensive fertilisation)
of about 3.000 kgs per year; this results after cold-pressing to 1.100 liter
Pure Plant Oil and 2.000 kgs rapeseed presscake,and 3 tons of popular straw.
* A dairy cow needs per day abt. 2,5 kgs and a porker abt.0,2 kgs rapeseed cake.
* Using 8 liters of fuel per 100 Km., 1 hektare provides annually 14000 km of
driving.
2.2 Oil production in decentralised Oilmills
(Cold-pressing method )
Decentralised Oilmills are environmentally friendly , economical and at the
same time
be less labour intensive at acceptable investmentcosts.
Savings are possible in comparision to Central(Industrial) Production Plants (
using hot pressing methods of seeds !) with reference to oilseed
preparation,oilprocessing and oiltreatment procedures.
Oil production by cold -pressing is only limited to 3 processing stages.
* Pre-treatment of the oilseeds.( this is a basic condition for a uniform oil
quality and the protection of the presses, implemented by a thourough cleaning
of the seeds removing all foreign objects(like dust ,stones, metalparts,....)
Furthermore accurate drying for an adequate storage stability of the seeds
thus enabling to generate a high yield of oil and ensuring a stable oil quality
, is important.
* Oil Production. Oil derived from seeds takes place by cold-pressing in a
mechanical way by socalled screw presses. The remaining presscake can be stored
or can instantly be used as cattle fodder.
* Oil cleaning. The produced oil contains 1-12 % polluted particles.Cleaning
can be done either by sedimentation,filtration or centrifugation and
end-security filtering.
3.
ENERGY-and ENVIRONMENTAL BALANCE
At present the parameters for establishing a model to assess a comprehensive
figure
where energy and environment favourably can coexist still show loose ends, and
probably will continue to do so..
In an overall Energy-and Environmental overview on fossile fuels, following
stages must be taken into account:
-Finding the oil spots.-Exploration and transport of crude oil.- Refining to a
product.
- Storage and distribution to endusers.
In addition there are environmental damages caused by processing, accidents
etc... and militairy actions to safeguard economical interests.
All this uses energy and causes emissions.
In comparision Pure Plant Oil stands right outside our own frontdoor, needs
comparatively little energy to make it suitable as fuel,has shorter transport
distances,and can be stored without risks.
The CO2 balance is genuinely climate-neutral.3
4.
EUROPEAN STRATEGY ON ENERGY-AGRICULTURE and ENVIRONMENT
In the Whitepapers and Greenpapers the European Commission outlines its
Strategy for the future where Energy, Agriculture and Environment get high
priorities and recommendations.
Biofuels is one of the topics the EU -Commission wishes to promote and
implement.
It is for this reason that European civil initiatives are taking place to
create a platform for
using biofuels as a contribution to the Energy-, Agricultural- and
Environmental issues
which lie ahead of us.
Pure Plant Oil as a renewable,sustainable and environmental friendly energy
source
fits therefore perfectly in this strategy.
However it is astonishing and frustrating to learn about the new proposals of
the EU-Commission, (COM 2001-547) wishing to also tax biofuels in the near
future,which undermines the basis of all further developments in this field and
can be considered as counterproductive, and therefore should be rejected.
Against that a full taxexempt on biofuels as already implemented in some
European Memberstates should as a consequence be applicable for all
Memberstates in order to meet the requirements for all memberstates with regard
to recent adopted Europen CO2 reduction legislation.
The Proposal of the European Commision sets out to classify biofuels, when used
as engine/heating fuel, within the range of mineral fuels in European
taxlegislation.
It is neither justified nor correct to randomly change matters and opinions in
an effort
to put all eggs in one basket, and certainly not understood by all those who
are aware
of the advantages of Pure Plant Oil.
We strongly appeal to common sense and your support to create a legal European
basis
for full taxexempt on biofuels,which definitely will be beneficial to all us.!
The future belongs to them who are creating a basis of hope for the next
generations.!
Hein Aberson/ Solaroilsystems-
Boijl(Friesland): 4.12.2001
Links:
http://europa.eu.int/comm/taxation_customs/taxation/information_notes/fuel.htm
http://www.uni-muenster.de/Energie/bio/archiv/01/11/0802.html
www.solaroilsystems.com
www.folkecenter.dk
http://valenergol.free.fr
www.pro-ev.de
www.fnr.de
www.pflanzenoelinitiative.de
www.energietag.de
www.bioenergie.inaro.de
SOLAROILSYSTEMS BV- Tel.0561-421104
Alteveersweg 42
Fax.0561-421105
8392 MS BOIJL (Friesland) The Netherlands www.solaroilsystems.com
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Re.: BIOFUELS -European_Union( COM 2001-547-Proposal for a Council Directive )
Subject :Pure Plant Oil ( as an alternative fuel for Dieselengines)
User categories : transport,energy/heating generating appliances.
Dear Sir/Madam,
Since mid-1990, in Europe, U.S.A, The Far-East and Africa, research and
development has taken place to use Pure Plant Oil for diesel engine fuels, and
heating/energy(electricity) generating purposes.
Particularly in Europe during the last 5 years testprogrammes have been
succesfully implemented to use Pure Plant Oil as an alternative fuel for diesel
engines.
Today more than 5000 diesel-engine equiped vehicles and means of
transportation, are using
Pure Plant Oil instead of dieselfuel with amazing results, whereas the oldest
motorcar(mercedes) has driven more than 600.000 kilometers on Pure Plant Oil.
The categories of dieselengines using Pure Plant Oil are ranging from farm-
tractors,motorcars and trucks to locomotives and shipengines, as well as light
and heavy diesel generators.
Making dieselengines to completely accept Pure Plant Oil as fuel and still be
able to use dieselfuel, the engines are generally modified and equiped with
additional motorparts as developed by the famous Elsbett(Germany) dieselengine
division.
In the world of engines "ELSBETT" is known as frontrunner and innovator,
holding many patents of new applicable techniques for diesel engines. As
European awards winners (1997-1999), are they famous as the inventors of the
by motorcar/truck makers worldwide applied TDI-sytems(Turbo Diesel Injection),
making diesel engines run much more economical.
The developed techniques of Elsbett have made it possible to use both Pure
Plant Oil or diesel fuel, whichever preferable.(Dual-fuel engine).
Pure Plant Oil is derived from oilcontaining plants, like rapeseed, soybean ,
sunflower, palmoiltrees etc.
Rapeseed oil for example is an excellent plant oil, very suitable to grow in
Europe, giving a high yield of plant oil, and generally mainly used in the food
sector as edible oil.
In the Non-food sector it has gradually gained strong interest as a basic
component for the production of the socalled Biodiesel (RME).
Biodiesel is a chemically altered plantoil. As fuel it can be blended with
dieseloil, as well as
it can be used as a singular fuel,without modifying the diesel engine.
However the process to chemically change the structure of Pure Plant Oil, is a
very costly
operation and requires a lot of energy, as it removes the glycerine substiting
it by methanol as well as adding other chemicals, making the endproduct
poisenous and equally hazardous as dieselfuel.
Properties
Pure Plant Oil
Biodiesel (Raps-Methyl-
Ester (RME)
Production: - Low energy use: coldpressing - High energy
use: warmpressing
- Filtering
- chemically removing glycerine
- ready for use as fuel ! -
adding Methanol
- filtering
- removing catalysator
-distilling(removing surplus
Methanol)
-conditioning:adding components to
make fuel suitable for use in winter
-ready for use as fuel
.
Energy balance : excellent = 1:> 3,5 1:<1
non-toxid
poisenous
natural product no special precautions same
treatment for storage, transport
storage,transport,environment
environment as dieselfuel
good lubricant for engine parts
agressive for certain engine parts
Emissions
( Pure Plant Oil versus Diesel fuel )
CO : minus 50 %
CO2 : minus 100 %
HC : minus 40 %
Soot : minus 50 %
Pure Plant Oil contains practically no sulphur.
Pure Plant Oil is renewable Energy,sustainable and environmentally friendly.
Pure Plant Oil meets perfectly the aims , targets and strategy made by the
European Commission as proposed in the White Papers and Green Papers.
Pure Plant Oil therefore should be considered as serious alternative in the
range of biofuels, and be given special attention , consideration and support
as a future much promising energy carrier.
By facilitating Pure Plant Oil as a liquid fuel we introduce an energy carrier
of which
production, use, and transport can be limited within closed (regional) raw
material-and energy circuits.
Pure Plant Oil is an ideal form of "stored" sun(solar) energy.
1.
OBJECTIVES
The present use of fossile energy carriers leads to a disproportional increase
of CO2 in the
atmosphere.Both climatological consequences as well as (external-source)
dependency and finiteness are now generally feared and recognised.
In Europe almost 100% of the energy used for roadtraffic is covered by
fossile fuels.
For short-and long term it is important to strongly support the use of
alternative fuels where Pure Plant Oil can play a special roll.
Excessive production in the agricultural sector in Europe, has led to a
reduction in
cultivation of agro-areas for food production, as does funding for
non-cultivated farming
areas.The future negative financial- and social-psycological impact for farmers
cause an
unbalanced perspective for the European agro-sector.
By involving the European agro-sector as contributors to the chain of filling a
part of the future energy needs,new impulses will be generated which will be
beneficial for this languishing sector.
In cultivating Rapeseed as an example, the farmer can enjoy practically a full
output
of this product.
1- Pure Plant Oil
2- Rich proteine fodder, which replaces the " USA-imported" soybean fodder .4
3-Straw
Pure Plant Oil as renewable,sustainable and environmentally friendly biofuel
contributes to the well-being of the farmer, and his future prospects.
2.
BASICS for DECENTRALISED PLANTOIL PRODUCTION and PLANTOIL TECHNOLOGY
The concept to achieve an energysaving new energysource is to decentrally
produce and
use Pure Plant Oil as energy carrier, doing so by establishing small and
mediumsized "Oilmills" (Cold Press rapeseed installations) in rural regions.
( in Germany already more than 100 smaller and mediumsized oilmills are
operating on this basis, and numbers of new established oilmills rising every
year).
As an illustration we use an on-going oilmill project in Aachen(Germany) using
rape as basic
material.
* Annual substitution upto 2,36 million liters dieselfuel and heatingfuel by
Pure Plant Oil.
* Annual reduction upto 5.149 tons climate-relevant CO2 emissions in this
region.
* Annual replacement upto 4.720 tons of imported Soybeanfodder, produced as
co-product when cold-pressing rapeseed.
* Annual reduction of 29,5 million tonkilometers transport in the region.
* A stronger engagement of farmers in regional energy supply leading to
possibilities of participation in the energy sector.
* Implementation of a structure supporting rural added value creation i.e. job
security and the creation of new jobs in a future oriented renewable energy
sector.
2.1 THE DECENTRALISED CONCEPT
The idea of "Decentralised Systems" is based on following considerations:
A farmer generally needs to drive abt. 25 kilometers to transport his harvest
from the fields to his client(cooperative,warehouse, storage facilities,....).
In this case , situated in the middle of a rural region (decentral), the farmer
will bring his
harvest ( in North-Western Europe generally : rapeseed) to the local Oilmill.
All necessary steps for the rapeseed like drying,cleaning, coldpressing and
storage are taking place on this spot.
By this method the farmers are avoiding additional transport distances to and
from the few big(Hot press Industrial )oilmills,as usual in "Central Systems"
for plant oil production.
There is no doubt that optimising the CO2 balance already starts at this point.
When coldpressing the (rape) seeds 2 products emerge:
* Pure Plant Oil
* Rapeseed presscake5
The oil will be used as fuel ( for diesel engines), and technical oil.
The rich proteine rapeseed cake will be bought by the dairy farmers instead of
soybean cake, and given to the lifestock
By doing this ,on the foddersupply side the soyabeancake imports from abroad
will be substituted by a product locally/regionally produced, and on the
fuelsupply side imports of fossile fuels will be substituted by local/regional
produced plant oil.
Both in ecomical- and CO2 terms the advantages are significant.
By Illustration :
* One hektare land generates a rapeseed harvest (non-intensive fertilisation)
of about 3.000 kgs per year; this results after cold-pressing to 1.100 liter
Pure Plant Oil and 2.000 kgs rapeseed presscake,and 3 tons of popular straw.
* A dairy cow needs per day abt. 2,5 kgs and a porker abt.0,2 kgs rapeseed cake.
* Using 8 liters of fuel per 100 Km., 1 hektare provides annually 14000 km of
driving.
2.2 Oil production in decentralised Oilmills
(Cold-pressing method )
Decentralised Oilmills are environmentally friendly , economical and at the
same time
be less labour intensive at acceptable investmentcosts.
Savings are possible in comparision to Central(Industrial) Production Plants (
using hot pressing methods of seeds !) with reference to oilseed
preparation,oilprocessing and oiltreatment procedures.
Oil production by cold -pressing is only limited to 3 processing stages.
* Pre-treatment of the oilseeds.( this is a basic condition for a uniform oil
quality and the protection of the presses, implemented by a thourough cleaning
of the seeds removing all foreign objects(like dust ,stones, metalparts,....)
Furthermore accurate drying for an adequate storage stability of the seeds
thus enabling to generate a high yield of oil and ensuring a stable oil quality
, is important.
* Oil Production. Oil derived from seeds takes place by cold-pressing in a
mechanical way by socalled screw presses. The remaining presscake can be stored
or can instantly be used as cattle fodder.
* Oil cleaning. The produced oil contains 1-12 % polluted particles.Cleaning
can be done either by sedimentation,filtration or centrifugation and
end-security filtering.
3.
ENERGY-and ENVIRONMENTAL BALANCE
At present the parameters for establishing a model to assess a comprehensive
figure
where energy and environment favourably can coexist still show loose ends, and
probably will continue to do so..
In an overall Energy-and Environmental overview on fossile fuels, following
stages must be taken into account:
-Finding the oil spots.-Exploration and transport of crude oil.- Refining to a
product.
- Storage and distribution to endusers.
In addition there are environmental damages caused by processing, accidents
etc... and militairy actions to safeguard economical interests.
All this uses energy and causes emissions.
In comparision Pure Plant Oil stands right outside our own frontdoor, needs
comparatively little energy to make it suitable as fuel,has shorter transport
distances,and can be stored without risks.
The CO2 balance is genuinely climate-neutral.6
4.
EUROPEAN STRATEGY ON ENERGY-AGRICULTURE and ENVIRONMENT
In the Whitepapers and Greenpapers the European Commission outlines its
Strategy for the future where Energy, Agriculture and Environment get high
priorities and recommendations.
Biofuels is one of the topics the EU -Commission wishes to promote and
implement.
It is for this reason that European civil initiatives are taking place to
create a platform for
using biofuels as a contribution to the Energy-, Agricultural- and
Environmental issues
which lie ahead of us.
Pure Plant Oil as a renewable,sustainable and environmental friendly energy
source
fits therefore perfectly in this strategy.
However it is astonishing and frustrating to learn about the new proposals of
the EU-Commission, (COM 2001-547) wishing to also tax biofuels in the near
future,which undermines the basis of all further developments in this field and
can be considered as counterproductive, and therefore should be rejected.
Against that a full taxexempt on biofuels as already implemented in some
European Memberstates should as a consequence be applicable for all
Memberstates in order to meet the requirements for all memberstates with regard
to recent adopted Europen CO2 reduction legislation.
The Proposal of the European Commision sets out to classify biofuels, when used
as engine/heating fuel, within the range of mineral fuels in European
taxlegislation.
It is neither justified nor correct to randomly change matters and opinions in
an effort
to put all eggs in one basket, and certainly not understood by all those who
are aware
of the advantages of Pure Plant Oil.
We strongly appeal to common sense and your support to create a legal European
basis
for full taxexempt on biofuels,which definitely will be beneficial to all us.!
The future belongs to them who are creating a basis of hope for the next
generations.!
Hein Aberson/ Solaroilsystems-
Boijl(Friesland): 4.12.2001
Links:
http://europa.eu.int/comm/taxation_customs/taxation/information_notes/fuel.htm
http://www.uni-muenster.de/Energie/bio/archiv/01/11/0802.html
www.solaroilsystems.com
www.folkecenter.dk
http://valenergol.free.fr
www.pro-ev.de
www.fnr.de
www.pflanzenoelinitiative.de
www.energietag.de
www.bioenergie.inaro.de
SOLAROILSYSTEMS BV- Tel.0561-421104
Alteveersweg 42
Fax.0561-421105
8392 MS BOIJL (Friesland) The Netherlands www.solaroilsystems.com
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Re.: BIOFUELS -European_Union( COM 2001-547-Proposal for a Council Directive )
Subject :Pure Plant Oil ( as an alternative fuel for Dieselengines)
User categories : transport,energy/heating generating appliances.
Dear Sir/Madam,
Since mid-1990, in Europe, U.S.A, The Far-East and Africa, research and
development has taken place to use Pure Plant Oil for diesel engine fuels, and
heating/energy(electricity) generating purposes.
Particularly in Europe during the last 5 years testprogrammes have been
succesfully implemented to use Pure Plant Oil as an alternative fuel for diesel
engines.
Today more than 5000 diesel-engine equiped vehicles and means of
transportation, are using
Pure Plant Oil instead of dieselfuel with amazing results, whereas the oldest
motorcar(mercedes) has driven more than 600.000 kilometers on Pure Plant Oil.
The categories of dieselengines using Pure Plant Oil are ranging from farm-
tractors,motorcars and trucks to locomotives and shipengines, as well as light
and heavy diesel generators.
Making dieselengines to completely accept Pure Plant Oil as fuel and still be
able to use dieselfuel, the engines are generally modified and equiped with
additional motorparts as developed by the famous Elsbett(Germany) dieselengine
division.
In the world of engines "ELSBETT" is known as frontrunner and innovator,
holding many patents of new applicable techniques for diesel engines. As
European awards winners (1997-1999), are they famous as the inventors of the
by motorcar/truck makers worldwide applied TDI-sytems(Turbo Diesel Injection),
making diesel engines run much more economical.
The developed techniques of Elsbett have made it possible to use both Pure
Plant Oil or diesel fuel, whichever preferable.(Dual-fuel engine).
Pure Plant Oil is derived from oilcontaining plants, like rapeseed, soybean ,
sunflower, palmoiltrees etc.
Rapeseed oil for example is an excellent plant oil, very suitable to grow in
Europe, giving a high yield of plant oil, and generally mainly used in the food
sector as edible oil.
In the Non-food sector it has gradually gained strong interest as a basic
component for the production of the socalled Biodiesel (RME).
Biodiesel is a chemically altered plantoil. As fuel it can be blended with
dieseloil, as well as
it can be used as a singular fuel,without modifying the diesel engine.
However the process to chemically change the structure of Pure Plant Oil, is a
very costly
operation and requires a lot of energy, as it removes the glycerine substiting
it by methanol as well as adding other chemicals, making the endproduct
poisenous and equally hazardous as dieselfuel.
Properties
Pure Plant Oil
Biodiesel (Raps-Methyl-
Ester (RME)
Production: - Low energy use: coldpressing - High energy
use: warmpressing
- Filtering
- chemically removing glycerine
- ready for use as fuel ! -
adding Methanol
- filtering
- removing catalysator
-distilling(removing surplus
Methanol)
-conditioning:adding components to
make fuel suitable for use in winter
-ready for use as fuel
.
Energy balance : excellent = 1:> 3,5 1:<1
non-toxid
poisenous
natural product no special precautions same
treatment for storage, transport
storage,transport,environment
environment as dieselfuel
good lubricant for engine parts
agressive for certain engine parts
Emissions
( Pure Plant Oil versus Diesel fuel )
CO : minus 50 %
CO2 : minus 100 %
HC : minus 40 %
Soot : minus 50 %
Pure Plant Oil contains practically no sulphur.
Pure Plant Oil is renewable Energy,sustainable and environmentally friendly.
Pure Plant Oil meets perfectly the aims , targets and strategy made by the
European Commission as proposed in the White Papers and Green Papers.
Pure Plant Oil therefore should be considered as serious alternative in the
range of biofuels, and be given special attention , consideration and support
as a future much promising energy carrier.
By facilitating Pure Plant Oil as a liquid fuel we introduce an energy carrier
of which
production, use, and transport can be limited within closed (regional) raw
material-and energy circuits.
Pure Plant Oil is an ideal form of "stored" sun(solar) energy.
1.
OBJECTIVES
The present use of fossile energy carriers leads to a disproportional increase
of CO2 in the
atmosphere.Both climatological consequences as well as (external-source)
dependency and finiteness are now generally feared and recognised.
In Europe almost 100% of the energy used for roadtraffic is covered by
fossile fuels.
For short-and long term it is important to strongly support the use of
alternative fuels where Pure Plant Oil can play a special roll.
Excessive production in the agricultural sector in Europe, has led to a
reduction in
cultivation of agro-areas for food production, as does funding for
non-cultivated farming
areas.The future negative financial- and social-psycological impact for farmers
cause an
unbalanced perspective for the European agro-sector.
By involving the European agro-sector as contributors to the chain of filling a
part of the future energy needs,new impulses will be generated which will be
beneficial for this languishing sector.
In cultivating Rapeseed as an example, the farmer can enjoy practically a full
output
of this product.
1- Pure Plant Oil
2- Rich proteine fodder, which replaces the " USA-imported" soybean fodder .7
3-Straw
Pure Plant Oil as renewable,sustainable and environmentally friendly biofuel
contributes to the well-being of the farmer, and his future prospects.
2.
BASICS for DECENTRALISED PLANTOIL PRODUCTION and PLANTOIL TECHNOLOGY
The concept to achieve an energysaving new energysource is to decentrally
produce and
use Pure Plant Oil as energy carrier, doing so by establishing small and
mediumsized "Oilmills" (Cold Press rapeseed installations) in rural regions.
( in Germany already more than 100 smaller and mediumsized oilmills are
operating on this basis, and numbers of new established oilmills rising every
year).
As an illustration we use an on-going oilmill project in Aachen(Germany) using
rape as basic
material.
* Annual substitution upto 2,36 million liters dieselfuel and heatingfuel by
Pure Plant Oil.
* Annual reduction upto 5.149 tons climate-relevant CO2 emissions in this
region.
* Annual replacement upto 4.720 tons of imported Soybeanfodder, produced as
co-product when cold-pressing rapeseed.
* Annual reduction of 29,5 million tonkilometers transport in the region.
* A stronger engagement of farmers in regional energy supply leading to
possibilities of participation in the energy sector.
* Implementation of a structure supporting rural added value creation i.e. job
security and the creation of new jobs in a future oriented renewable energy
sector.
2.1 THE DECENTRALISED CONCEPT
The idea of "Decentralised Systems" is based on following considerations:
A farmer generally needs to drive abt. 25 kilometers to transport his harvest
from the fields to his client(cooperative,warehouse, storage facilities,....).
In this case , situated in the middle of a rural region (decentral), the farmer
will bring his
harvest ( in North-Western Europe generally : rapeseed) to the local Oilmill.
All necessary steps for the rapeseed like drying,cleaning, coldpressing and
storage are taking place on this spot.
By this method the farmers are avoiding additional transport distances to and
from the few big(Hot press Industrial )oilmills,as usual in "Central Systems"
for plant oil production.
There is no doubt that optimising the CO2 balance already starts at this point.
When coldpressing the (rape) seeds 2 products emerge:
* Pure Plant Oil
* Rapeseed presscake8
The oil will be used as fuel ( for diesel engines), and technical oil.
The rich proteine rapeseed cake will be bought by the dairy farmers instead of
soybean cake, and given to the lifestock
By doing this ,on the foddersupply side the soyabeancake imports from abroad
will be substituted by a product locally/regionally produced, and on the
fuelsupply side imports of fossile fuels will be substituted by local/regional
produced plant oil.
Both in ecomical- and CO2 terms the advantages are significant.
By Illustration :
* One hektare land generates a rapeseed harvest (non-intensive fertilisation)
of about 3.000 kgs per year; this results after cold-pressing to 1.100 liter
Pure Plant Oil and 2.000 kgs rapeseed presscake,and 3 tons of popular straw.
* A dairy cow needs per day abt. 2,5 kgs and a porker abt.0,2 kgs rapeseed cake.
* Using 8 liters of fuel per 100 Km., 1 hektare provides annually 14000 km of
driving.
2.2 Oil production in decentralised Oilmills
(Cold-pressing method )
Decentralised Oilmills are environmentally friendly , economical and at the
same time
be less labour intensive at acceptable investmentcosts.
Savings are possible in comparision to Central(Industrial) Production Plants (
using hot pressing methods of seeds !) with reference to oilseed
preparation,oilprocessing and oiltreatment procedures.
Oil production by cold -pressing is only limited to 3 processing stages.
* Pre-treatment of the oilseeds.( this is a basic condition for a uniform oil
quality and the protection of the presses, implemented by a thourough cleaning
of the seeds removing all foreign objects(like dust ,stones, metalparts,....)
Furthermore accurate drying for an adequate storage stability of the seeds
thus enabling to generate a high yield of oil and ensuring a stable oil quality
, is important.
* Oil Production. Oil derived from seeds takes place by cold-pressing in a
mechanical way by socalled screw presses. The remaining presscake can be stored
or can instantly be used as cattle fodder.
* Oil cleaning. The produced oil contains 1-12 % polluted particles.Cleaning
can be done either by sedimentation,filtration or centrifugation and
end-security filtering.
3.
ENERGY-and ENVIRONMENTAL BALANCE
At present the parameters for establishing a model to assess a comprehensive
figure
where energy and environment favourably can coexist still show loose ends, and
probably will continue to do so..
In an overall Energy-and Environmental overview on fossile fuels, following
stages must be taken into account:
-Finding the oil spots.-Exploration and transport of crude oil.- Refining to a
product.
- Storage and distribution to endusers.
In addition there are environmental damages caused by processing, accidents
etc... and militairy actions to safeguard economical interests.
All this uses energy and causes emissions.
In comparision Pure Plant Oil stands right outside our own frontdoor, needs
comparatively little energy to make it suitable as fuel,has shorter transport
distances,and can be stored without risks.
The CO2 balance is genuinely climate-neutral.9
4.
EUROPEAN STRATEGY ON ENERGY-AGRICULTURE and ENVIRONMENT
In the Whitepapers and Greenpapers the European Commission outlines its
Strategy for the future where Energy, Agriculture and Environment get high
priorities and recommendations.
Biofuels is one of the topics the EU -Commission wishes to promote and
implement.
It is for this reason that European civil initiatives are taking place to
create a platform for
using biofuels as a contribution to the Energy-, Agricultural- and
Environmental issues
which lie ahead of us.
Pure Plant Oil as a renewable,sustainable and environmental friendly energy
source
fits therefore perfectly in this strategy.
However it is astonishing and frustrating to learn about the new proposals of
the EU-Commission, (COM 2001-547) wishing to also tax biofuels in the near
future,which undermines the basis of all further developments in this field and
can be considered as counterproductive, and therefore should be rejected.
Against that a full taxexempt on biofuels as already implemented in some
European Memberstates should as a consequence be applicable for all
Memberstates in order to meet the requirements for all memberstates with regard
to recent adopted Europen CO2 reduction legislation.
The Proposal of the European Commision sets out to classify biofuels, when used
as engine/heating fuel, within the range of mineral fuels in European
taxlegislation.
It is neither justified nor correct to randomly change matters and opinions in
an effort
to put all eggs in one basket, and certainly not understood by all those who
are aware
of the advantages of Pure Plant Oil.
We strongly appeal to common sense and your support to create a legal European
basis
for full taxexempt on biofuels,which definitely will be beneficial to all us.!
The future belongs to them who are creating a basis of hope for the next
generations.!
Hein Aberson/ Solaroilsystems-
Boijl(Friesland): 4.12.2001
Links:
http://europa.eu.int/comm/taxation_customs/taxation/information_notes/fuel.htm
http://www.uni-muenster.de/Energie/bio/archiv/01/11/0802.html
www.solaroilsystems.com
www.folkecenter.dk
http://valenergol.free.fr
www.pro-ev.de
www.fnr.de
www.pflanzenoelinitiative.de
www.energietag.de
www.bioenergie.inaro.de
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