Brett,
I visited a WVO company in Switzerland during January. They had
converted a number of vehicles for local haulage companies. The Swiss
Scania main dealer was supportive of their work as they had converted a
number of Scanias using twin tank systems. In total they had converted
25 vehicles - see their site for more details www.biodrive.ch.
See also
www.salatoelbomber.de (use google translatior
http://www.google.com/language_tools?hl=en )
Pictures of stripped down engines and quotes distances covered using
rapeseed oil with twin tank systems in a number of large trucks.
There is at least one other German company whos website is quoting big
mileages covered running SVO in similar vehicles(can't find the link
now)
It appears that these big engines are operating fine using twin tank
systems. I think there would be a potential for problems with some of
the latest electronic/computer controlled high pressure injection
systems.
Darren
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brett Dobmeier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: 11 March 2004 13:30
> To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [biofuel] Semi tractors & bio or SVO
>
> Has anyone had experience or know of anything about running semi
tractors
> with the big 400 to 600 hp Cat, Detroit, or Cummins engines on bio
diesel
> or SVO. Would they be any different than running a car diesel engine
on
> bio or SVO? I only ask because it seems that semi tractors consume
LARGE
> amounts of fuel per year. I have a friend that drives truck long haul
and
> he is happy and brags about getting 5.7 MPG, and he runs 150K miles
plus
> per year. Thats over 26,000 gallons of dirty, polluting diesel a
year.
> And he's only one rig...and theres how many thousands of big rigs on
the
> road.
>
> It would seem to make sense if those thousands of big engines can be
run
> on bio or SVO it should be done...something that is cleaner and can be
> home grown in USA, instead of having to import everything from Mid
East.
>
> Any thoughts, comments, or experiences would be nice.
>
> Thanks
> Brett
>
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