What does anyone know about "Bio-diesel"?
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Yes! Just researched it click the link. My link is there for the hell of it! lol
Yeah it's made from rape seed oil
Its earthly made fuel.
Fuel made out of corn.
Other such things of that sort.
All i know is that its more expensive than regular focil fuels.
You can buy a 5% blend of biodiesel with fossil diesel at many forecourts nowadays. You can't get higher than that retail because the engine manufacturers won't guarantee it.
That's odd, because Rudolph Diesel invented his engine specifically to run on peanut oil, and most of them will do fine at 50% blend, or even neat.
Sources of biodiesel:
Used Cooking Oil (UCO) - transesterification or just filtration does the job
Oil seed rape (the biggest for now)
Jatropha
Palm oil (though not terribly environmentally friendly - probably a step backwards in fact for several reasons)
Lots of other sources, not all of them are very benign. Go carefully through the legislative swamp here as well. The laws do not favour the better options nor restrict the worst. I think the energy inputs in agriculture mean that rape oil can be produced at an energy cost equal to roughly half what you get out in the diesel. But circumstances vary tremendously from crop to crop and place to place. Beware what people claim about biodiesel. It can be great and it can be terrible.
Made from almost any vegetable oil. Some people are using old cooking oil now but there is a problem with HM Customs and Excise as no VAT is paid on it.
Biodeisel is made from a natural by product (such as corn or rapeseed like they said) and it runs in your car cleaner and lasts longer than regular diesel. There are some people that even run their cars on used chip fat. it is also considered a biodiesel. I'm not sure if you need to convert your car to run it, i've heard both, so make sure before you go putting it into your car!
bio diesel is made from biological oils and not crude oil.it is cleaner to run off and in some cases it can clean your engine up a little and help it run for longer. you could try using cooking oil. there have been a few TV programmes which have shown that this is perfectly possible. the only problem is that the government is making people pay extortionate amounts on the tax for this. even with this on top it is much much cheaper than normal fuel and it is good for the environment and it is recycling because the oil has been used previously.
I know of a person who runs his van on old cooking oil from restaurants, He collects it , keeps it in translucent drims, and allows it to settle (One month) then uses it neat, He has an arrangement wherby the engine is started on diesel, run for a few minutes then on to cooking oil. There is an immersion heater in the tank to prevent it waxing -up, and a change-over valve.
He carries a card from Customs & exise in case he is stopped, and he pays HM gov about 40p per litre.for the privilage.
it swings both ways ha ha
The diesel you buy on the forecourt can already be bio diesel with a Maximum of mix of 5 %.Doesn't sound a lot but if every one used it the the carbon emission from diesel vehicles would be reduced! If you have an older car it may run on a greater mix of bio diesel. The best place check if your car can run on bio is in the hand book. If you have modern diesel with common rail technology I would avoid at all costs unless the your car is approved or modified by the factory to run on greater mix, if it can you will find you have to replace the fuel filter and possibly the engine oil more often, Remember also modern diesel injectors can cost £100- 400 each.So any saving you make by using bio could be wiped out in one go!
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