And anyway, Cetan Nr. is feedstock specific, isn't it? So how did they measure it? And I can not find any support for the "The cetane values are too high to measure, over 80 at a minimum" on their homepage. Actually I do not see any analysis data on their HP.... So please, from where did you derife this interesting information on their cetan number results???
Camillo Holecek Biodiesel Raffinerie GmbH, Austria -----UrsprŸngliche Nachricht----- Von: Steve Spence [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Freitag, 23. August 2002 08:32 An: biofuels-biz@yahoogroups.com Betreff: Re: [biofuels-biz] Biox plant (again) how does a cetane rating over 50 benefit? biodiesel and vegetable oils do have slightly less energy content than fossil diesel. about 5% Steve Spence Subscribe to the Renewable Energy Newsletter & Discussion Boards: http://www.green-trust.org Renewable Energy Pages - http://www.webconx.dns2go.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: "craig reece" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Biofuels-Biz" <biofuels-biz@yahoogroups.com>; "Biodiesel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, August 23, 2002 12:12 AM Subject: [biofuels-biz] Biox plant (again) > Let's try this: > > Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 18:30:56 -0400 > From: David Bruckmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [DIESEL] Re: Biodiesel... > > Gang, > > I recently went to tour the Biox (http://www.bioxcorp.com/) biodiesel > plant near Toronto. Their process is quite different from the usual > methanol/lye system. They can accept any input, from rendered animal > fat to pure vegetable oil. The cetane values are too high to measure, > over 80 at a minimum, the flashpoint (300F) is way higher than > standard diesel (125F), and there's no washing of the output > required. Sunoco is interested because their tar sands-derived diesel > fuels require cetane boosters to be legal for sale. Just a little bit > of the Biox-process biodiesel will dramatically raise the cetane > values. > > Biox use a completely unique co-solvent process with complete > recovery of the catalyst materials (essentially no trace catalysts > left in the output, so no danger to injection pumps etc.). No hazmats > are used in the process, and the whole reaction is 99% complete in > ten minutes at ambient temperatures and pressures. > > They are actually going after the rendering plant market; the value > of rendered animal products has dropped from 40 cents/lb to 4 > cents/lb since it is basically no longer acceptable to include > rendered animal products in animal feed. The idea is that a rendering > plant can use the biodiesel system to process the fats into heat for > the plant, fuel for the trucks, and glycerol, which has a higher > market value than the rendered fats that comprise it. > > The cost of producing a litre of biodiesel using the Biox process is > about 0.08 cents/litre, making it competitive with petro diesel. > > As others have pointed out, B100 reduces hydrocarbon emissions by up > to 80%, and CO and soot by 50%. There is NO evidence that vegetable > oils have less energy density than petroleum oils. > > A number of large PUC and city governments in Ontario and PQ are > using B100 in the summer, B20 in the winter, for all their diesel > equipment and vehicles. > > The only remaining hurdle is winter. Vegetable and animal-based fats > tend to solidify earlier than petro, so it's still necessary to use a > B20 or lower mixture when it get's really cold. I'm sure that if even > a tiny fraction of the money thrown at petro extraction were turned > towards solving the biodiesel cold flow problem, B100 would be viable > in all climates. > > Additional resources: http://www.biodieselnow.com/ > > D. > __________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe: see http://lists.mbz.org/diesel/ > Archives are at http://lists.mbz.org/diesel/archives/ > MBZ.ORG official parts vendor: http://parts.catalog.mbz.org > eBay specials: http://ebay.mbz.org > > > > > Biofuels at Journey to Forever > http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html > Biofuel at WebConX > http://www.webconx.dns2go.com/2000/biofuel/biofuel.htm > List messages are archived at the Info-Archive at NNYTech: > http://archive.nnytech.net/ > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ > > > Biofuels at Journey to Forever http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel at WebConX http://www.webconx.dns2go.com/2000/biofuel/biofuel.htm List messages are archived at the Info-Archive at NNYTech: http://archive.nnytech.net/ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> 4 DVDs Free +s&p Join Now http://us.click.yahoo.com/pt6YBB/NXiEAA/mG3HAA/9bTolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Biofuels at Journey to Forever http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel at WebConX http://www.webconx.dns2go.com/2000/biofuel/biofuel.htm List messages are archived at the Info-Archive at NNYTech: http://archive.nnytech.net/ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
