<x-charset ISO-8859-1>Hello from a lurker. When I was a bus driver years ago we were always told to put a few gallons of petrol (gasoline) in the bus fuel tank a few miles from where we were stopping in order to keep the fuel lines free and prevent them from icing.
It always seemed to work but we noticed that they used to smoke more than they did without the petrol. We were specifically told not to put too much in as there could be the possibility of water contamination in the fuel. Not sure why - this chemistry thing is way over my head. Not sure if any of this is relevant but I thought you might like to know. --- In biofuel@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Some of you may remember that I sent a post looking for information on the > blending of WVO and petrol recently. I was interested to find out the > percentage of petrol it took to produce the same viscosity as a 50/50 > WVO/diesel blend. I'm presently running an standard Mercedes W123 200D > (1979) on a 50/50 WVO/Diesel blend. I was interested to see if I could use > less dino in the blend using petrol, whilst keeping the same viscosity. I was > also contemplating using a 50/50 petrol/WVO blend, with a view to > improving the viscosity, and hopefully improve the cold start capability, > which is a bit iffy with the 50/50 diesel WVO blend. > I did do a net search (in English) and also got a local Swiss friend to do a > search in German - they being the biggest consumers of veg oil around here. > (Europe) > The search in English wasn't up to much, but the German one... > MY GOD !! FANTASTIC !!!! > See... http://dh5eah.toxisch.net/download/dokus/gelbesheft69.pdf > It's in German but that's not a problem as there are a couple of graphs that say > enough.(pages 78 and 82) It's a 200 word + report on blending SVO with > Diesel, RME and - yes you've guessed - PETROL. And guess what - one of > the graphs is the effect of blends on viscosity, the other on the Flame Point. > Turns out that a mere 2% petrol in veg oil drops the flamepoint from 210 to > around 60. 5% and it's below 40! > I'm now adding a couple of litres of petrol per tank to the diesel/WVO blend > - and the cold start problem is a thing of the past. > James Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/index.php?list=biofuel Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/biofuel/ 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/ </x-charset>
