From: MV (MV@dc9.tzo.com)
Date: Mon Apr 04 2005 - 14:43:32 PDT
There are several station in Indiana that have been selling biodiesel
for about 20 cents more per gallon that regular diesel. For some reason
most of the stations are near Richmond, IN.
We have a lot of soy beans in Indiana and their are a few oil recovery
plants here also.
Now if I could just figure how to run my M51 dump on shelled corn, then
I would have something. The fuel hopper is already be built in! (:->)
I can see it now...... Yes, I would like 5 tons of regular grade whole
kernel low moisture ..
Mileage could be in miles per bushel... who knows..
Just need to figure out someway to gassify the corn, and pipe it to the
mixer. I suppose if you could gassify corn, soybeans and coal would
work also.
Dave
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Bjorn Brandstedt wrote:
> Hey Marc,
> I used fresh cooking oil, about 2 gallons for 15-20 gallons of diesel.
> It was used up on short drives last summer. Didn't notice any change in
> performance.
>
> I now have about 25 gallons of "used" cooking oil from a fast food place
> here in town that I'm filtering through a 5 micron filter. The filters
> are available on ebay.
> The small batch of biodiesel that I made is still sitting in a jar.
> Don't really know what I ended up with and that fact and the cost of
> methanol are my problems with bio.
>
> Using straight cooking oil is much more attractive, but the weather must
> stay warm.
> I'll try with a larger percentage of oil, perhaps in a few weeks. Temp
> dropped below freezing here last Saturday night...
>
> The price/gal (about over $3.00) for cooking oil I quoted in my previous
> post is for a 5-gallon jug. I'm sure it would be less say for 100
> gallons and with diesel getting close to that same price, who knows.
>
> Wonder what commercial biodiesel producers pay for their oil.
> Biodiesel sells for about $3.20/gal (tax included in NC) when I checked
> last week.
>
> Bjorn,
> MVPA19212
> Meadows of Dan, Virginia (My son spotted a big black bear down the road
> last night :-))
>
>
>
>
>> From: Marc Strangfeld <mjstrangfeld@yahoo.com>
>> To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
>> Subject: Re: [MV] alternate fuels
>> Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2005 21:00:33 -0700 (PDT)
>>
>> Bjorn
>>
>> Are you saying you ran used or new vegetable oil.
>> What ratio? Supposedly a standard diesel engine will
>> run on straight vegetable oil as long as the engine is
>> up to operating temp and the oil is heated, right?
>> Either way, how would one filter old oil clean enough
>> to mix in with regular diesel?
>>
>> I made a small batch of biodiesel in a 2 gal. glass
>> jar about two years ago. It is still sitting on a
>> shelf in the garage. I decided I wasn't interested in
>> going through the work to make it on a large scale.
>> But, if I could run straight vegetable oil diluted in
>> diesel (without any engine mods.) there wouldn't be
>> any messing around making it into biodiesel. Then
>> we'd have something! Of course what better engine is
>> there to experiment with than a multifuel.
>>
>> Marc
>>
>>
>>
>> --- Bjorn Brandstedt <super_deuce@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> > Restaurants buy veggie oil for cooking for just over
>> > $3.00/gallon...
>> > Wal-Mart sells it for about $4.65/gallon
>> >
>> > Multifuel engines will run on this oil if its warm
>> > enough. I have tried it
>> > mixed with diesel in my deuce and it works well.
>> >
>> > Just tossing some ideas about.
>> >
>> > Bjorn
>> > MVPA19212
>> > Meadows of Dan, Virginia (Below freezing last night
>> > and very windy)
>> >
>> >
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