[Biofuel] Diesel history

2005-03-09 Thread Busyditch
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Re: [Biofuel] Diesel history

2005-03-09 Thread Hakan Falk
He got the chance to develop his high compression engine, with grants from the coal industry. They financed him for development of an engine that could utilize the large amount of coal dust that was gathering as waste around the mines. He failed, but could instead demonstrate a prototype that

Re: [biofuel] diesel history correction

2001-07-09 Thread Appal Energy
Actually, to be more completely accurate, All of Rudolph Diesel's attempts to build an engine that would run on coal fell flat on their face. Realizing the impossibility and futility of matching coal as a fuel to the engine technology available at that time, he began to look for other fuel

[biofuel] diesel history correction

2001-07-08 Thread F. Marc de Piolenc
Steve Spence wrote: That still does not take away from his demonstration in 1900 at the worlds fair on peanut oil and his quote in 1911 the Diesel engine can be fed with vegetable oils and would help considerably in the development of agriculture of the countries which use it. and in 1912 the

[biofuel] diesel history correction

2001-07-07 Thread F. Marc de Piolenc
Finally found my reference, namely Diesel Aviation Engines by Wilkinson: Abundance of coal in Germany and the idea of utilizing coal dust for fuel undoubtedly influenced Dr. Diesel when he applied for a patent. The first one issued to him, Patent No. 67,207 dated February 28, 1892, specified an

Re: [biofuel] diesel history correction

2001-07-07 Thread steve spence
history correction Do you know where I could read the Sanders, Gordon Turner, Kieth report? - Original Message - From: steve spence [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, July 07, 2001 1:02 PM Subject: Re: [biofuel] diesel history correction That still does

Re: [biofuel] diesel history correction

2001-07-07 Thread Donna Smith
Do you know where I could read the Sanders, Gordon Turner, Kieth report? - Original Message - From: steve spence [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, July 07, 2001 1:02 PM Subject: Re: [biofuel] diesel history correction That still does not take away from his

[biofuel] Diesel history

2001-07-05 Thread David Preskett
So whats the real history. Who really first put oil through a d-engine? Next is, who first put the first esters through? Any ideas/references? Mad Dave Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Please do NOT send unsubscribe messages to the list address. To

Re: [biofuel] Diesel history

2001-07-05 Thread steve spence
-3704 x3154 - voicemail/fax We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children. -- - Original Message - From: David Preskett [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2001 2:11 PM Subject: [biofuel] Diesel history So whats the real

Re: [biofuel] Diesel history

2001-07-05 Thread steve spence
04, 2001 2:11 PM Subject: [biofuel] Diesel history So whats the real history. Who really first put oil through a d-engine? Next is, who first put the first esters through? Any ideas/references? Mad Dave Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Please do

Re: [biofuel] Diesel history

2001-07-05 Thread Keith Addison
] To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2001 2:11 PM Subject: [biofuel] Diesel history So whats the real history. Who really first put oil through a d-engine? Next is, who first put the first esters through? Any ideas/references? Mad Dave Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http

Re: [biofuel] Diesel history

2001-07-03 Thread Paul Gobert
- Original Message - From: F. Marc de Piolenc [EMAIL PROTECTED] Diesel's original plan was to use powdered coal. Liquid fuels were first used in compression-ignition engines in France by Capitaine, but the engines have always been called Diesel nonetheless. Peanut oil, indeed! Where

[biofuel] Diesel history correction

2001-07-03 Thread F. Marc de Piolenc
Dr. Rudolf Diesel developed the diesel engine in the late 1890's in order to use peanut oil as fuel. WRONG. Diesel's original plan was to use powdered coal. Liquid fuels were first used in compression-ignition engines in France by Capitaine, but the engines have always been called Diesel

Re: [biofuel] Diesel history correction

2001-07-03 Thread steve spence
- From: F. Marc de Piolenc [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Biofuel List biofuel@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2001 6:24 AM Subject: [biofuel] Diesel history correction Dr. Rudolf Diesel developed the diesel engine in the late 1890's in order to use peanut oil as fuel. WRONG. Diesel's original