David Wanjagi I have a different perspective I suggest you should consider. Why go to all the trouble and expense to burn biodiesel when you can 1) use the seeds as Paul Anderson suggests or 2)use the oil without further processing into biodiesel.
I believe you can find stove designs that will burn straight vegetable oil. Of course this assumes that vegetable oil is cheaper than biodiesel and the climate is warm enough that the higher viscosity of vegetable oil (compared to Biodiesel) is not a problem. I am sure there are several oil stove designs on the www.stoves.bioenergylists.org site. Here is the first one I ran across. http://stoves.bioenergylists.org/chaearisto These stoves look more complicated to build than the TLUD Paul Anderson is suggesting which would burn jatropha and other oil seeds. I know you are set on designing a biodiesel stove. But you made that decision without research. Now that you have done some further research, you should reconsider you premise. Jim Hensel Portland, Oregon USA _______________________________________________ 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://stoves.bioenergylists.org/
