Hi all;
I too have access to waste kero, and would love to burn it in my diesel
except for the fact that it's well known not to have the lubrication
properties a modern injection pump needs.
But what about mixing it with WVO? WVO needs to be "thinned out" by heating
it to make it's viscosity low enough to run through the injection pump.
Couldn't the same thing be done by thinning it with clean kerosene?
Anybody out there have experience with this?
Buck
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Sent: April 7, 2005 8:02 AM
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Subject: RE: [Biofuel] Kerosene
Hi Malcolm and all
What's all this then Malcolm, an Englishman talking of "kero"??? LOL!
Pond? What pond? The only thing on the other side is the edge of the
world, not as is alleged a whole bunch of folks who talk of kerosene
when they mean paraffin - they all fell off. World not flat, hmphh.
Anyway, from a previous message about using, um, kero:
>I'm told it's done in Sri Lanka, probably in other countries. Maybe
>they start up on petrol (gasoline) ("in America they haven't spoken
>it for years"), but anyway they run a paraffin (kerosene) fuel line
>round the exhaust manifold to heat it up first. I think that means
>"hot", not just "warm". I guess they know just how to do it, and how
>not to do it too - probably not something to chuck guesses at.
Best
Keith
>Hi Chris,
>
>Certainly blend it with bioD - I would tend to have a higher proportion of
>bioD than 50/50 though, just to be safe.
>
>On no account use straight kero - in time it will wreck your diesel pump as
>it does not have the lubrication properties of dinoD or bioD.
>
>Kero will not work in a petrol engine because of its low carburetion
>properties - my father & a fellow student however, during post war
>rationing, had an Austin 7 & regularly had to drive to & from Leicester to
>St. Andrews where he was at uni studying medicine. The journey would have
>used up a years worth of petrol rations. So they "begged" extra petrol from
>family & blended it with kero & acetone to make up the volume. He said it
>ran really well on the mix but tended to billow clouds of white smoke under
>power. I don't suppose modern petrol engines would be quite so forgiving
for
>such a mix.
>
>Cheers
>
>Malcolm
>
>
>
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>Of Chris Kelly
>Sent: 07 April 2005 09:02
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: [Biofuel] Kerosene
>
>I have been offered by an aviation industry service mob, up to 1500litres
of
>free kerosene. Aparently, this comes from some sort of turbine, and when
the
>fuel tank has a problem, they drain it and are not allowed to reuse it.
>
>They are literally giving it away, I just have to collect it.
>
>Can kerosene be used as an alternative fuel in diesel or petrol cars? If
not
>I'll have plenty of kero for heating my WVO!!!!
>Chris Kelly
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