I remember a cold morning years ago when I poured a clouded up slurry of biodiesel into my 220D. The thing ran just fine!
Sent from my iPhone On Dec 7, 2011, at 10:04 PM, Dieselhead <126die...@gmail.com> wrote: With bio-diesel you are stuck with whatever fatty acids are present in the parent oil. Bio-D is really methyl or ethyl esters of fatty acids (the ethyl or methyl group replaces the glycerol in the fat or oil), and they crystallize at much higher temps than diesel fuel. Peter As a rule of thumb, the further north the plant was grown, the lower the cloud point of the resultant BioD. Animal fats and tropical oils (palm) are the worst. then cottonseed, and peanut, then soy, then sunflower and then things like camolina and canadian canola. We know a guy who grows sunflowers in Northern WI, and runs his homemade BioD at 100% until it gets below 0ยบ F. That is pretty good for homemade BioD with no additive. (German Design engine IH tractors -66 and -86 series) _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
