Dear Stovers, in India, we import more than 50% of our edible vegetable oil. The non-edible plant oils are used industrially for fatty acid extraction, soap making, in paints, and nowadays also for biodiesel production. As a result, even the non-edible oils are quite costly. There is a trend nowadays of removing the non-edible ingredients from non-edible oils to make them edible. Thus, cottonseed oil and rice bran oil, which were considered to be non-edible, have now become edible. Biodiesel made from plant oil costs almost twice as much as petroleum based diesel. It is much cheaper to run internal combustion engines on biogas. Every city has a vegetable market, which generates huge quantities of vegetable waste. The wholesale vegetable market of Mumbai generates daily about 50 truckloads of waste. It has a potential of producing daily about 50 tons of biogas, which in turn would generate about 50 megawatts of electricity daily. Manufacturers have started manufacturing engines, made specifically to accept biogas as fuel. I am currently heading a project, aimed at developing a rural biogas system using green leaves as feedstock. It is funded by the Government of India. Yours A.D.Karve
On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 8:53 AM, Darren <[email protected]> wrote: > Liquid vegetable oils make excellent vehicle fuels. Solid fats burn well in > diesel engines although fully heated fuel systems are required to get fats > to flow to the engine. > > Always feels a bit of a waste using them in heaters or generators. No doubt > in some situations it makes sense. > > Best > > Darren > > > > _______________________________________________ Stoves mailing list to Send a Message to the list, use the email address [email protected] to UNSUBSCRIBE or Change your List Settings use the web page http://lists.bioenergylists.org/mailman/listinfo/stoves_lists.bioenergylists.org for more Biomass Cooking Stoves, News and Information see our web site: http://www.bioenergylists.org/
