[biofuels-biz] Re: [biofuel] FW: VEG-Therm (was Inexpensive But Good SVO Vehicle)
Hey, are you guys aware that Ed Beggs offered list members these units for beta-testing? And nobody took him up on it. Bit slow, ain't ya? See below... Offer's still open I think. Best Keith Addison Journey to Forever Handmade Projects Tokyo http://journeytoforever.org/ -- Hi - Yes, to respond to Craig's post, we still have the two turbodiesel Jettas for sale, pictures on our site. ALSO: Announcing a new idea in SVO heating: We've also added some information on the site today that we think all using SVO or biodiesel will find of interest. We have developed an in line vegoil heater that can also be used for biodiesel. It's function is to warm the fuel on it's way to the filter, and it complements the pad heater that we have developed earlier, for use on the final filter itself. This is a compact, sleek, easily installed heater that we are really quite proud of, and it has performed well in testing to date (over the last several months). We package it complete with relay and wiring, wiring diagram and use instructions. It is inexpensive to ship, and so will be available at reasonable cost anywhere. This is, then, ready to install on most smaller diesel vehicles (cars and 4 cylinder pickups for example). It comes with 10mm barbed fittings and + /- terminals ready to accept wires. It uses advanced heating technology so that no external thermostat is needed, the temperature is self-regulating, the unit cannot overheat. A test of two of these on a V-8 diesel will be undertaken tomorrow, and I'll advise of results to this group. This test is anticipated to be successful, since the alternator on those engines is also typically rated at higher output, coincident with the greater fuel flow of the larger engine. There are only a few of these from a small initial test run available right now, and depending on final test results from our beta testers (from this list, we hope, to a large extent), and the general level of interest received, we will then go into full scale production very soon on an item that we think will prove popular. We certainly don't pretend that this is all that is needed for a cold weather SVO system, since the fuel in that case would be too viscous on its way from the tank to the heater (or even gelled in the fuel lines completely in some cases), placing undue strain on the injection pump and/or lift pump BUT it is a very good way to: a) heat SVO, in a single tank system (prechamber engine) in geographic regions that experience warm climates (ambient temps 20¼ C or higher) b) heat SVO, in a two-tank system, without a hose-in-hose arrangement in moderate climates (where temperatures are usually above +5¼ C c) assist in providing more rapid and/or more complete heating of SVO in two-tank, hose-in-hose systems (which we can also supply), for those operating in colder climates. d) heat biodiesel, esp. in winter, for those using biodiesel in cold weather, as a way of minimizing concerns about bioddiesel's higher cloud point compared with winter diesel. e) a way of providing final heating of SVO/biodiesel blends that are sometimes used as a way of thinning SVO in cold months, for those vehicles that are not otherwise properly equipped (HIH, tank heat, two-tank, etc.) for cold weather SVO operation. Check it out at our site, www.biofuels.ca Edward Beggs, BES, MSc. President, Neoteric Biofuels Inc. www.biofuels.ca Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Please do NOT send unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor -~-- Universal Inkjet Refill Kit $29.95 Refill any ink cartridge for less! Includes black and color ink. http://us.click.yahoo.com/bAmslD/MkNDAA/ySSFAA/9bTolB/TM -~- Biofuels at Journey to Forever http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel at WebConX http://www.webconx.com/2000/biofuel/biofuel.htm 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/
[biofuel] Methanol, cannot be made non-poisionous?
[cbdnet.access.gpo.gov] PART: U.S. GOVERNMENT PROCUREMENTS SUBPART: SERVICES CLASSCOD: A--Research and Development OFFADD: National Technology Transfer Center, Wheeling Jesuit University, 316 Washington Ave., Wheeling, WV 26003-6295 SUBJECT: A--RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT -- THE SUBJECT TECHNOLOGY IS A SET OF FOUR COMPOUNDS THAT APPEARS TO BE USEFUL IN ALLEVIATING THE TOXIC EFFECTS OF ACETALDEHYDE (ACH). ACH, THE FIRST METABOLIC PRODUCT OF INGESTED ETHANOL (ETHYL ALCOHOL), IS KNOWN TO EXHIBIT LIVER TOXICITY AND IS SUSPECTED IN THE ETIOLOGY SOL #99-071 DUE 122001 POC Mr. William Chard at 1-800-678-6882 or (304) 243-2039. DESC: N-Terminal Dipeptides of D (-) Penicillamine as Sequestration Agents for Aldehydes --The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), through the National Technology Transfer Center (NTTC), is seeking a commercialization partner to further develop this technology through a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA).-The subject technology is a set of four compounds that appears to be useful in alleviating the toxic effects of acetaldehyde (AcH). AcH, the first metabolic product of ingested ethanol (ethyl alcohol), is known to exhibit liver toxicity and is suspected in the etiology of alcoholic liver disease. There is reason to believe that these compounds may work as sequestration agents for aldehydes generally, including formaldehyde (the first metabolic product of methanol) and glutaraldehyde, as well as AcH. On this basis, it is hypothesized that any one or more of these compounds are candidates for use as an antidote against the toxic effects of AcH, formaldehyde and glutaraldehyde, and thus may be effective both in treatment of chronic alcoholism and in cases of acute alcohol or aldehyde poisoning. A secondary effect may be the reduction of the offensive body odor produced by unsaturated aldehydes. LINKURL: www.nttc.edu LINKDESC: Click here to find out additional information regarding this technology EMAILADD: [EMAIL PROTECTED] EMAILDESC: click here to contact the contracting officer via e-mail CITE: (W-317 SN5128W9) Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Please do NOT send unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[biofuel] EREN Network News -- 11/21/01
= EREN NETWORK NEWS -- November 21, 2001 A weekly newsletter from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Network (EREN). http://www.eren.doe.gov/ = Featuring: *News and Events BPA Buys Power from 49.8-Megawatt Oregon Wind Project Chicago to Avoid Drawing on New Conventional Power Plants Green Power Coming to Georgia and Omaha, Nebraska Seattle Allows Residents to Support Local Renewable Projects Nevada Governor Names Task Force for Renewables, Efficiency California Zeroing In on Rules for Zero-Emission Vehicles Australia's World Solar Challenge Race Now Underway *Site News Chicago Solar Partnership *Energy Facts and Tips EIA Boosts U.S. Energy Demand Prediction for 2020 *About this Newsletter -- NEWS AND EVENTS -- BPA Buys Power from 49.8-Megawatt Oregon Wind Project DOE's Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) announced last week that it will buy all of the power from a 49.8-megawatt wind project now under construction near Condor, Oregon. SeaWest WindPower, Inc. is installing 83 Mitsubishi wind turbines at the site and expects to complete the project in May 2002. See the DOE press release at: http://www.energy.gov/HQPress/releases01/novpr/pr01195.htm. See also the SeaWest press release at: http://www.seawestwindpower.com/news/111501.html. SeaWest also developed and constructed Rock River I, a 50-megawatt wind facility that went online last week in Wyoming. Owned by a subsidiary of Shell WindEnergy Inc., the project marks the first major investment by Shell in the U.S. wind market. PacifiCorp is buying the entire output from the plant -- enough to power more than 13,000 homes -- for the next 20 years. See the SeaWest press release at: http://www.seawestwindpower.com/news/111401.html. Chicago to Avoid Drawing on New Conventional Power Plants The City of Chicago plans to meet its growing electricity needs through 2010 using renewable energy, energy management, cogeneration, and distributed energy sources, according to a new energy plan released last week. The plan estimates that even with the higher cost of renewable energy, Chicago will save more than $260 million by 2010. Chicago is already working with four city agencies and 48 suburban governments to purchase 20 percent of their combined power needs from renewable energy sources. The city is also building a distributed source of electricity by amassing the capabilities of the emergency backup generators located at city facilities. Together, these generators will be equivalent to one 10-megawatt power plant. The City of Chicago is also examining its facilities for the possibility of installing small power plants that also generate useable heat -- such combined heat and power facilities, also called cogeneration plants, operate at high efficiencies. Finally, the city has established building energy codes for energy efficiency and is retrofitting its facilities to make them highly energy efficient. Among the many energy- efficiency projects is a move to replace all traffic signals with low-energy light-emitting diodes (LEDs), which will save an estimated $4.4 million per year. See the press release titled Daley Calls for National Effort to Revive Economy, Create Jobs on Mayor Richard Daley's Web site at: http://www.ci.chi.il.us/Mayor/news_press.html. The full energy plan is posted on the city's Department of Environment Web page at: http://www.ci.chi.il.us/Environment/. When releasing the energy plan, Mayor Daley announced that the city will participate in the development of the Chicago Climate Exchange, a voluntary market for trading emissions of greenhouse gases. Mexico City announced its intentions to participate as well. See the press release on the Chicago Climate Exchange Web site at: http://www.chicagoclimatex.com/html/CCX111301.htm. Green Power Coming to Georgia and Omaha, Nebraska Thirteen of Georgia's Electric Membership Corporations (EMC) will offer power from renewable energy sources next year through the newly formed Green Power EMC. The EMC will begin by generating power from the methane produced by four landfills in north and middle Georgia. Green Power EMC projects that wind, solar and hydroelectric energy sources will be added to its generating capacity by 2003. The first site, at Richland Creek Road Landfill in Gwinnett County, is expected to be operational next fall. Green Power EMC will sell a total of 7.5 million kilowatt-hours of renewable electricity per month. Customers will be able to buy the power in 150-kilowatt-hour blocks at a additional monthly rate of $3 to $5. Signups for the program will begin in the second quarter of 2002. See the press
Re: [biofuel] Direct vs. Indirect injection for SVO
My understanding is that the precumbustion chamber aids in mixing the SVO and air and aids in more complete combustion. I recall hearing of problems with SVO droplets spraying onto the cylinder walls and therefore not being burned and in some cases seeping past the rings and ending up diluting the crankcase oil in direct inj. diesels. This may be due to a higher viscosity of the SVO and might be countered by having your injectors adjusted for the higher viscosity of SVO. Of course if SVO is heated by the time it hits the injectors I cant understand why this would be the case. This could be a miscommunication between the two SVO communities...one which advocates no preheating of SVO and even mixing with diesel fuel (who obviously live in a very temperate climate) and one which preheats SVO and starts and stops on diesel. I have no choice since I live in Minnesota and for 4 months of the year have to deal with SVO as a solid...I must not only preheat for the inj. I have to heat my SVO tank as well. It seems though that by purging with diesel each start /stop cycle you also avoid the problem of accumulation of Acreolien(sp?) on your injectors. There are other forums that are devoted to SVO that you may wish to research this on. Does anyone lurking have any experience with an SVO direct injection engine? Dana Linscott __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! GeoCities - quick and easy web site hosting, just $8.95/month. http://geocities.yahoo.com/ps/info1 Yahoo! Groups Sponsor -~-- Universal Inkjet Refill Kit $29.95 Refill any ink cartridge for less! Includes black and color ink. http://us.click.yahoo.com/Vv.L9D/MkNDAA/ySSFAA/FGYolB/TM -~- Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Please do NOT send unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[biofuel] RE: Ford Explorer hybrid abandoned
Hi Alan Keith Addison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, I didn't really wrote, I just sent! Ford engineers and other insiders said the automaker, citing a cash crunch and less success with the gasoline-electric hybrid than expected, decided to limit the hybrid system to smaller trucks and cars. The system tends to boost efficiency more in smaller vehicles. Humpf! They should tell that to Oshkosh Diesel, who are producing a version of their 8x8 heavy truck as a full on hybrid, and gaining 30% fuel efficiency with it. Come to think of it, I suppose they'd also need to tell the railroad industry that all of those diesel-electric locomotives just won't work. Not to mention the planned hybrid busses. And while we're talking about vehicles that do better as hybrids, let's not forget diesel-electric powered ships. The bottom line is that they just don't want to spend the money to do it right. As a friend of mine says about Detroit, They don't make cars, they make money. IMO what they're going to do is produce the smaller cars and trucks as hybrids first, using the buying public as guinea pigs, and then after we've done their RD for them they're going to see if they can scale the system up to bigger vehicles. That's dead right, I reckon. Humpf! indeed. I guess we're all supposed to trust in new-broom Chairman William Clay Ford Jr's Little Green(ish) Book to steer the planet arights. In the mean time a lot of Insights and Priuses are going to hit the streets. Prolly not only Insights and Priuses. I went to the Tokyo Motor Show a couple of weeks ago and it was fairly lousy with hybrids of various ilk, and all sorts of fancy hybrid gear being made by Japanese suppliers. Quite a scene, that show. Also, it looks as if the Japanese might be getting a little less passive about it - while the US has had its megabux PNGV program, to little avail, there've been no government handouts for Toyota and Honda to produce their hybrids. But I just got this yarn from SolarAccess.com - note the bit about putting 420 billion yen a year into promoting the use of hybrid cars. Japanese Ministry Says Renewables Will Improve Economy TOKYO, Japan, JP, 2001-11-21 [SolarAccess.com] A Japanese think tank has denied that efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions and to promote new renewable technologies, would hurt economic growth and employment. In a report for the Environment Ministry, the Tokyo-based Research Institute for Systems Technology says new technologies could boost economic growth and employment significantly by 2010. By redirecting 1.6 trillion yen each year in government spending to 20 specific technologies, such as solar power and fuel cells, it says 2.1 trillion yen would be added to the nation's gross domestic product by 2010, boosting it by more than one third of a percentage point and creating 180,000 jobs. Officials of the Environment department say the report conclusion and other calculations will reduce resistance from industry to measures to reduce GHG emissions, and will help convince the public that it stands to benefit from tackling climate change, even if certain sectors face hardships. RIST says the study shows that benefits will be gained by putting money into sectors where society needs it, rather than into conventional public works such as road construction. The study suggests the Japanese government channel funds into 20 technologies in five energy-consuming sectors. Spending 420 billion yen annually to promote the use of hybrid cars would yield a 798 billion yen rise in GDP by 2010, according to the study. It estimates that 200 billion yen from government to push industry to use fuel cells would produce the next-largest benefit by adding 379 billion yen to GDP. The developments would create 180,000 jobs, particularly in commerce and the automobile industry, or 5 percent of the projected jobless figure in 2010. The construction industry may lose 22,000 jobs. Under the Kyoto Protocol, Japan is committed to cutting GHG emissions by 6 percent by 2012 from 1990 levels. The report suggests that by forging ahead with clean energy and other technologies that could be sold abroad, Japan would export emission reductions to other countries of 3.7 megatonnes. But they'll do it even without the handout. Currently these are mostly gasoline-electric hybrids, though I think there are some diesel-electrics for trucks etc in the pipeline. Personally, I'm more interested in the new breed of diesels in Japan and Europe than in hybrids. The US is _way_ behind on that score - you guys really ought to do something about that anti-diesel car foolishness, go and knock some heads together in the Sierra Club and the EPA and so on. Hit 'em with this, for instance: Diesel engines could help US beat fuel crunch if feds wake up -- Diesel engines, the hottest auto trend in Europe [and Japan], are being regulated out of existence in the United States. -- Detroit
Re: [biofuel] Cummins 6, was small vee..
Jean-Leon, I've heard that the pre-chamber in an indirect injection engine mixes the fuel-air more completely. Someone else posted this. I've emailed Elsbett in Germany, who have been studying the VW Tdi engine on vegetable oil, and asked them if I can pay them to share their preliminary data with me - no answer yet. But the Cummins 3.4 should be very happy with SVO or WVO. Craig Jean-Leon Morin wrote: Indirect injection is better for veggie oil? Why would a direct injection motor be worse for this type of fuel? I am familiar with diesel engines, but I would not consider myself to be knowledgeable, and I fail to see why it would make a big difference. What is the main difference between a Direct injection and indirect injection? One injection being made into the combustion chamber, the other into a pre-combustion chamber? My assumption of why the indirect inj. motor would be best would be because it would be less dependent on burn time... Yahoo! Groups Sponsor -~-- Universal Inkjet Refill Kit $29.95 Refill any ink cartridge for less! Includes black and color ink. http://us.click.yahoo.com/bAmslD/MkNDAA/ySSFAA/FGYolB/TM -~- Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Please do NOT send unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [biofuel] FW: VEG-Therm (was Inexpensive But Good SVO Vehicle)
Hey, are you guys aware that Ed Beggs offered list members these units for beta-testing? And nobody took him up on it. Bit slow, ain't ya? See below... Offer's still open I think. Best Keith Addison Journey to Forever Handmade Projects Tokyo http://journeytoforever.org/ -- Hi - Yes, to respond to Craig's post, we still have the two turbodiesel Jettas for sale, pictures on our site. ALSO: Announcing a new idea in SVO heating: We've also added some information on the site today that we think all using SVO or biodiesel will find of interest. We have developed an in line vegoil heater that can also be used for biodiesel. It's function is to warm the fuel on it's way to the filter, and it complements the pad heater that we have developed earlier, for use on the final filter itself. This is a compact, sleek, easily installed heater that we are really quite proud of, and it has performed well in testing to date (over the last several months). We package it complete with relay and wiring, wiring diagram and use instructions. It is inexpensive to ship, and so will be available at reasonable cost anywhere. This is, then, ready to install on most smaller diesel vehicles (cars and 4 cylinder pickups for example). It comes with 10mm barbed fittings and + /- terminals ready to accept wires. It uses advanced heating technology so that no external thermostat is needed, the temperature is self-regulating, the unit cannot overheat. A test of two of these on a V-8 diesel will be undertaken tomorrow, and I'll advise of results to this group. This test is anticipated to be successful, since the alternator on those engines is also typically rated at higher output, coincident with the greater fuel flow of the larger engine. There are only a few of these from a small initial test run available right now, and depending on final test results from our beta testers (from this list, we hope, to a large extent), and the general level of interest received, we will then go into full scale production very soon on an item that we think will prove popular. We certainly don't pretend that this is all that is needed for a cold weather SVO system, since the fuel in that case would be too viscous on its way from the tank to the heater (or even gelled in the fuel lines completely in some cases), placing undue strain on the injection pump and/or lift pump BUT it is a very good way to: a) heat SVO, in a single tank system (prechamber engine) in geographic regions that experience warm climates (ambient temps 20¼ C or higher) b) heat SVO, in a two-tank system, without a hose-in-hose arrangement in moderate climates (where temperatures are usually above +5¼ C c) assist in providing more rapid and/or more complete heating of SVO in two-tank, hose-in-hose systems (which we can also supply), for those operating in colder climates. d) heat biodiesel, esp. in winter, for those using biodiesel in cold weather, as a way of minimizing concerns about bioddiesel's higher cloud point compared with winter diesel. e) a way of providing final heating of SVO/biodiesel blends that are sometimes used as a way of thinning SVO in cold months, for those vehicles that are not otherwise properly equipped (HIH, tank heat, two-tank, etc.) for cold weather SVO operation. Check it out at our site, www.biofuels.ca Edward Beggs, BES, MSc. President, Neoteric Biofuels Inc. www.biofuels.ca Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Please do NOT send unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor -~-- Universal Inkjet Refill Kit $29.95 Refill any ink cartridge for less! Includes black and color ink. http://us.click.yahoo.com/XwUZwC/MkNDAA/ySSFAA/FGYolB/TM -~- Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Please do NOT send unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
RE: [biofuel] Re: Inexpensive But Good SVO Vehicle
there is nothing intrinsic to turbos that inhibits you from using WVO. what causes the problems in modern engines is the computer controls that get confused by viscosity changes and the fact that direct injection is less tolerant of bad atomisation than in an idirect injection engine. In the older turbo vw's there is no computer to get confused, and is indirect injection. I hqave no actual experience with using an older vw turbo on WVO, but I think it will be fine. anton I am in the same situation. Looking for an appropriate car to buy for a conversion. TDI's are not good for use with SVO from what I've read. But does the same also go for all turbos? I am looking at an '85 jetta turbo or an '82 quantum turbo to put the greasel unit in. Does anyone know about how SVO-friendly these models are? snip Yahoo! Groups Sponsor -~-- Universal Inkjet Refill Kit $29.95 Refill any ink cartridge for less! Includes black and color ink. http://us.click.yahoo.com/Vv.L9D/MkNDAA/ySSFAA/FGYolB/TM -~- Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Please do NOT send unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
