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Speaking of the treatment process....as I understand it there are byproucts from one or more parts of the treatment process and I wondered how those are disposed of.
Cooking oil cheaper than diesel?
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Dishpointer
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The main byproduct is glycerin which most people make soap out of it.
Dishpointer
Silver Member
The main byproduct is glycerin which most people make soap out of it.
Guess I need to chime in on this one now. I have been using waste vegetable oil (WVO) for the past three years in my VW Passat, two years in my F350, and recently in my tractor. I am an engineer and have been involved in alternative fuels for the past 6 years.
WVO can be used as a direct replacement fuel for diesel, but it needs to be heated. My car and truck are setup where they start and run on diesel until they are warmed up to normal operating temps. Then I switch to my oil tank which has been heated by a heat exchanger flowing hot engine coolant through it. This thins out the WVO to nearly the same viscosity as diesel fuel and prevents any wear to the injection pump, injectors and allows for easy flowing through the fuel filter.
WVO energy content is only about 2% less than #2 diesel. I have never seen a drop in my fuel mileage and my injection pumps run quieter on WVO.
If you do not heat the WVO you run the risk of killing your injection pump and coking the injectors so badly they won't spray.
It is necessary to switch back to diesel before shutting down the engine for extended periods so that you can start back on diesel.
I have nearly 100,000 miles on my vehicles on WVO and have only spent an estimated $800 on diesel fuel during that time. I get my WVO for free and have a very simple filtering setup in my garage that allows me to pull in a vehicle and fill up whenever I need to.
Alex McKinney
www.nativerenewables.com
WVO can be used as a direct replacement fuel for diesel, but it needs to be heated. My car and truck are setup where they start and run on diesel until they are warmed up to normal operating temps. Then I switch to my oil tank which has been heated by a heat exchanger flowing hot engine coolant through it. This thins out the WVO to nearly the same viscosity as diesel fuel and prevents any wear to the injection pump, injectors and allows for easy flowing through the fuel filter.
WVO energy content is only about 2% less than #2 diesel. I have never seen a drop in my fuel mileage and my injection pumps run quieter on WVO.
If you do not heat the WVO you run the risk of killing your injection pump and coking the injectors so badly they won't spray.
It is necessary to switch back to diesel before shutting down the engine for extended periods so that you can start back on diesel.
I have nearly 100,000 miles on my vehicles on WVO and have only spent an estimated $800 on diesel fuel during that time. I get my WVO for free and have a very simple filtering setup in my garage that allows me to pull in a vehicle and fill up whenever I need to.
Alex McKinney
www.nativerenewables.com
Guess I need to chime in on this one now. I have been using waste vegetable oil (WVO) for the past three years in my VW Passat, two years in my F350, and recently in my tractor. I am an engineer and have been involved in alternative fuels for the past 6 years.
WVO can be used as a direct replacement fuel for diesel, but it needs to be heated. My car and truck are setup where they start and run on diesel until they are warmed up to normal operating temps. Then I switch to my oil tank which has been heated by a heat exchanger flowing hot engine coolant through it. This thins out the WVO to nearly the same viscosity as diesel fuel and prevents any wear to the injection pump, injectors and allows for easy flowing through the fuel filter.
WVO energy content is only about 2% less than #2 diesel. I have never seen a drop in my fuel mileage and my injection pumps run quieter on WVO.
If you do not heat the WVO you run the risk of killing your injection pump and coking the injectors so badly they won't spray.
It is necessary to switch back to diesel before shutting down the engine for extended periods so that you can start back on diesel.
I have nearly 100,000 miles on my vehicles on WVO and have only spent an estimated $800 on diesel fuel during that time. I get my WVO for free and have a very simple filtering setup in my garage that allows me to pull in a vehicle and fill up whenever I need to.
Alex McKinney
www.nativerenewables.com
WVO can be used as a direct replacement fuel for diesel, but it needs to be heated. My car and truck are setup where they start and run on diesel until they are warmed up to normal operating temps. Then I switch to my oil tank which has been heated by a heat exchanger flowing hot engine coolant through it. This thins out the WVO to nearly the same viscosity as diesel fuel and prevents any wear to the injection pump, injectors and allows for easy flowing through the fuel filter.
WVO energy content is only about 2% less than #2 diesel. I have never seen a drop in my fuel mileage and my injection pumps run quieter on WVO.
If you do not heat the WVO you run the risk of killing your injection pump and coking the injectors so badly they won't spray.
It is necessary to switch back to diesel before shutting down the engine for extended periods so that you can start back on diesel.
I have nearly 100,000 miles on my vehicles on WVO and have only spent an estimated $800 on diesel fuel during that time. I get my WVO for free and have a very simple filtering setup in my garage that allows me to pull in a vehicle and fill up whenever I need to.
Alex McKinney
www.nativerenewables.com
Humbleto
Silver Member
Did some research and some calculating. If all the vegetable oils projected to be produced in the US for 2007 were to replace crude oil it would supply our (US) need for approximately 8.7 days. If you were just replacing diesel it would be more days, but we couldn't have any fried foods.
"Food for thought" /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif
"Food for thought" /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif
Humbleto
Silver Member
Did some research and some calculating. If all the vegetable oils projected to be produced in the US for 2007 were to replace crude oil it would supply our (US) need for approximately 8.7 days. If you were just replacing diesel it would be more days, but we couldn't have any fried foods.
"Food for thought" /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif
"Food for thought" /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif
michigandon
Bronze Member
What about all the thousands of acres out there that the government is paying people not to farm? What if all that land were put to use? I know that it would never be able to meet the fuel demand 100%. **** I'll be the first to admit that it wouldn't even come close. But even if it were able to make just the tiniest of dents............
