Re: [biofuel] home heating with biodiesel?

2003-11-07 Thread Appal Energy
Message - From: "Mark Finewood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2003 12:40 AM Subject: [biofuel] home heating with biodiesel? > Does anyone have experience using biodiesel for home heat in place > of fuel oil in their furnace? > > Let

Re: [biofuel] home heating with biodiesel?

2003-11-07 Thread Dan Maker
Mark Finewood said: > > Does anyone have experience using biodiesel for home heat in place > of fuel oil in their furnace? Take a quick look in the archives for October or September, there is an article in "Home Power" magazine (I think that's it) by a couple that converted their fuel oil furna

Re: [biofuel] home heating with biodiesel?

2003-11-07 Thread rajesh sk
Dear Mark, Biodiesel can be used in place of furnace oil but it needs burner modification.If u can modify burner your furnace efficiency can be improved. Rajesh IIT Delhi Mark Finewood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Does anyone have experience using biodiesel for home heat in place of fuel oil

[biofuel] home heating with biodiesel?

2003-11-06 Thread Mark Finewood
Does anyone have experience using biodiesel for home heat in place of fuel oil in their furnace? Let me know, Regards, Mark Yahoo! Groups Sponsor -~--> Buy Ink Cartridges or Refill Kits for your HP, Epson, Canon or Lexmark Printer at MyInks.com. F

Re: [biofuel] Home Heating with BioDiesel

2003-10-17 Thread Brent S
Will traditional anti-gel work to use bio diesel in -40 weather, or is someone working on one that will? Brent >From: Keith Addison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com >To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com >Subject: Re: [biofuel] Home Heating with BioDiesel >D

Re: [biofuel] Home Heating with BioDiesel

2003-10-14 Thread Dan Maker
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > Has any body tried mixing fryer oil and sawdust or other boimass and > burning it in a wood stove or in a masonry heater. ( Masonry Heater > Association of North America ) www.mha-net.org Duno about SWVO, but that's a suggested use of low grade glycerine as shown on t

Re: [biofuel] Home Heating with BioDiesel

2003-10-14 Thread Dave Brown
At 10:14 10/14/03 -0500, you wrote: >Has any body tried mixing fryer oil and sawdust or other boimass and >burning it in a wood stove or in a masonry heater. ( Masonry Heater >Association of North America ) www.mha-net.org Read somewhere about using the glycerine byproduct from biodiesel to mix

Re: [biofuel] Home Heating with BioDiesel

2003-10-14 Thread Hakan Falk
Masonry stoves can be sensitive to too high temperatures, so be careful with this. Even using coal could be forming cracks, so be sure that your masonry stove can take it, before you try. Hakan At 05:14 PM 10/14/2003, you wrote: >Has any body tried mixing fryer oil and sawdust or other boimass

Re: [biofuel] Home Heating with BioDiesel

2003-10-14 Thread woodartstudios
Has any body tried mixing fryer oil and sawdust or other boimass and burning it in a wood stove or in a masonry heater. ( Masonry Heater Association of North America ) www.mha-net.org Yahoo! Groups Sponsor -~--> Rent DVDs from home. Over 14,500 title

Re: [biofuel] Home Heating with BioDiesel

2003-10-14 Thread Dan Maker
Thanks to all the respondents to my question re home heating with biodiesel I recieved a lot of good information. The article below was of particular interest and shows some interesting pictures of biodiesel from various feed stock at different tempuratures, demonstrating clouding and gelling. C

Re: [biofuel] Home Heating with BioDiesel

2003-10-14 Thread Keith Addison
>Homepower magazine has a article on biodiesel home heating in the last >magazine. www.homepower.com Thankyou, that's useful. Direct link (pdf file): http://www.homepower.com/files/97p1-47.pdf p40 home power 97 / october & november 2003 Best wishes Keith Yahoo! Grou

Re: [biofuel] Home Heating with BioDiesel

2003-10-13 Thread woodartstudios
Homepower magazine has a article on biodiesel home heating in the last magazine. www.homepower.com http://community.webtv.net/WoodArtStudios/WoodArtStudios http://community.webtv.net/WoodArtStudios/WOODARTSTUDIOS Yahoo! Groups Sponsor -~--> Buy Ink

Re: [biofuel] Home Heating with BioDiesel

2003-10-13 Thread Appal Energy
Fuel oil boilers and space heaters with "gun burners" work fine with biodiesel. Todd Swearingen - Original Message - From: "Dan Maker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "BioFuel Yahoo Group" Sent: Monday, October 13, 2003 12:17 AM Subject: [biofuel] Home Heat

[biofuel] Home Heating with BioDiesel

2003-10-13 Thread Dan Maker
What kinds of heaters work with biodiesel? I've been looking at the little kerosene heaters that can be had for around $150 usd, but they seem to rely on wicking the fuel up to burn it, I remember reading somewhere that biodiesel does not wick very well, particularly not with a tightly woven wick