James, It is my understanding that H2O in SVO can possibly cause two problems: 1. Injector pump damage. and 2.Delay of the flame front during combustion. This in turn may have cummulative effect due to ecessive heat at valves and also "downstream" in the exhaust manifold or turbocharger (if so equipped).
Since it is relativly easy to make certain that no H2O is present in the SVO I would suggest that this would be a common sense measure to take. You might consider using the waste heat from the generator itself to accomplish this. Are you also familiar with the reasons for heating the SVO prior to injection and also possibly the advantages of special injectors for SVO? Indirect injection vs. direct injection? Purging with diesel/biodiesel? If not I would suggest searching the archives of this list as well as the vegoil list. They are both loaded with useful information. Some of the older SVO generator data used non-preheated oil as fuel so if you run across data that indicates problems...look for any indication that they used these techniques or just ran cold SVO. Also the "waste heat might also prove useful as well as saleable. co-generation Good Luck, Dana --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I've been talking to a farmer today who uses a > diesel generator and > also uses the heat generated. Here in Spain you can > sell biomass > produced electricity to the grid for a good price so > I suggested he > started running the genset on filtered WVO and sell > the electricity. > I wasn't sure about the water content but I advised > him to get it out > for now and that I'd try to find out. Was my advice > correct or can > you get away with leaving the water in?? > Thanks in anticipation > James > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Sports - Coverage of the 2002 Olympic Games http://sports.yahoo.com Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Please do NOT send "unsubscribe" messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
