I am looking at WVO fueled diesel powered home/shop co-generation
options. The thinking process came up a design idea where some 120VAC
would be converted to ?VDC. Someone I respect in electronics stated that a
simple AC - DC filtered rectification circuit results in the output VDC
being
At 03:05 Saturday, you wrote:
NeilUSA wrote:
I understand though that the vegi-diesel still smells of french fries (or
whatever the feed stock came from). You may need to deoderize the
biodiesel.
Whyever, Neil? Every now and then someone suggests this and it always
puzzles me. Actually
At 09:31 Tuesday, you wrote:
Currently here, we are paying silly amounts for our fuel, on average
$1.30 (USD) for a litre of dino-diesel and $1.27 for unleaded.
As an example, my company has applied
for a licence to make its own biodiesel for our 4 VW Caddy vans. Not a
problem we were told by
Heidi,
I was watching to see if a discussion started up. I just purchased a 15
acre homestead in Oregon where I will be plunging into WVO for vehicles,
home electrification of a modern home, and home/workshop space/water
heating with furnaces - all run on WVO. It will be an incremental
Are there any WVO designs that are passive heaters of sizable BTU
output? There are kerosene heaters that by the amount of wick can be of
sufficient size to be the equivalent of an average house furnace (50-100K
BTU). The oil fired boilers and furances use various pumps/fans/etc. to
create
According to the archives pertaining to the TDI-SVO controversy:
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It is possible to preheat the oil up to 150 deg C where it attains the
same viscosity as the diesel oil. Atomisation tests showed that at 150 deg
C the performance of the rapeseed oil are
Once WVO cools down, micro-organisms I understand set about the task of
consuming the oil turning it rancid in as little as a month. Can the WVO
be stored for longer by first filtering it to say 10 micron and then
storing it in a heated tank? What would the temperature need to be? I
assume
At 10:22 Wednesday, you wrote:
After about a year of research and planning to produce biodiesel from wvo, I
ran into a formidable wall which is the end for me and perhaps many others.
I could find no insurance company willing to provide liability coverage
for my operation.
My suggestion
I have been watching the serious safety issues (great use of this list) per
using methanol in the production of biodiesel. I understand ethanol works
as well though I understand it is a bit more complicated a process. Pardon
my ignorance; but, I have looked around and have not found the
I just sent an email per:
I have been watching the serious safety issues ...
and I believe I have located the information I needed. Please disregard my
prior
Biofuel at Journey to Forever:
http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html
Biofuels list archives:
http://archive.nnytech.net/
At 13:27 Wednesday, you wrote:
NeilUSA wrote:
and now it is a time to work
out an idiot-proof design. So every report of problems means those
hearing it (yea for the internet and mail lists) can factor it into design
revisions. It should also be noted that we have no complete data base
At 11:19 Wednesday, you wrote:
I'd just like to add that I think it would be a shame to install batteries
when you have a grid connection to use as your buffer. I assume you have
net metering up to the value of the electricity you take.
Net metering is available and earlier reported on so this
At 06:55 Wednesday, you wrote:
I am building an foam/fiberglass airplane (LongEz) which likes
temperatures in the 70F+ range while the Oregon coastline runs from 30 to
70F on average.
Neil, gonna put a diesel in it? Run it on Biodiesel? Thielert makes a nice
powerful 4 cyl diesel that is a
At 19:07 Monday, you wrote:
gotta chime in here, though I don't want to revive the stupid 'biodiesel
VERSUS SVO debate, as both have their place-
While I agree that SVO is the wave of the future, it's important to point
out that it's very experimental- and a lot of the experimenting takes place
At 22:54 Monday, you wrote:
u there's one drawback of running a genset 24/7 that you may ... or
may not have considered. And that is that a genset is usually geared for
producing LARGE amounts of power all the time. Well, as long as it's
running anyways. When asked to produce
At 22:55 Monday, you wrote:
Neil wrote:
Remember, the genset will be averaging only about 2-3KW which will
not produce very much waste heat.
The following is fabulous since I had not yet run out the numbers for I
planned on using the waste heat providing it could be kept simple. The
Why are there so many postings on food? I realize food is our biofuel;
but, discussing salmon recipies and mad cow disease amid vegitable oil
processing methods for use in cars is inconsistant. Perhaps those who want
to discuss the best breed of milk cow and other such items might want to
At 11:47 Tuesday, you wrote:
the building is only an 'outbuilding'- housing restrooms for the community
center
it gets year-round use in a very harsh climate, and needs to be comfortable
in a blizzard (and in the Plains 118 degree heat too!). The building
also serves some other uses, and in the
Mark
Do an internet product search for waste oil heater and you will find
some. These are designed to burn waste engine crankcase oil, transmission
fluid oil, and other lubricating liquids common to car repair shops. They
usually say that the viscosity needs to be 50 or less. If using WVO
At 13:14 Monday, you wrote:
the use of a generator to run electric stoves is very expensive better
to use propane same for driers and if you capture the heat from gen set
use hydronics or a small heat pump to move the heat , look up
polarpowerinc.com they have a bunch of explaining on this sort
I am purchasing a homestead in Oregon and looked into generating my own
electrical requirements using the power grid for storage and selling excess
of up to the limit of 25KW. I would be using waste vegitable cooking oil
or waste engine crankcase oil as a form of recycling. Besides
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