Dear AD, Thanks for that elucidation about fresh veggie oil use in India but what about the spent, or in local jargon, waste veggie oil ? Is it not filterable and heatable and useable a fuel ?
Richard Stanley Arusha Tz. On Nov 8, 2011, at 3:25 AM, Anand Karve wrote: > 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/ > _______________________________________________ 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/
