Let's try this: Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 18:30:56 -0400 From: David Bruckmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [DIESEL] Re: Biodiesel...
Gang, I recently went to tour the Biox (http://www.bioxcorp.com/) biodiesel plant near Toronto. Their process is quite different from the usual methanol/lye system. They can accept any input, from rendered animal fat to pure vegetable oil. The cetane values are too high to measure, over 80 at a minimum, the flashpoint (300F) is way higher than standard diesel (125F), and there's no washing of the output required. Sunoco is interested because their tar sands-derived diesel fuels require cetane boosters to be legal for sale. Just a little bit of the Biox-process biodiesel will dramatically raise the cetane values. Biox use a completely unique co-solvent process with complete recovery of the catalyst materials (essentially no trace catalysts left in the output, so no danger to injection pumps etc.). No hazmats are used in the process, and the whole reaction is 99% complete in ten minutes at ambient temperatures and pressures. They are actually going after the rendering plant market; the value of rendered animal products has dropped from 40 cents/lb to 4 cents/lb since it is basically no longer acceptable to include rendered animal products in animal feed. The idea is that a rendering plant can use the biodiesel system to process the fats into heat for the plant, fuel for the trucks, and glycerol, which has a higher market value than the rendered fats that comprise it. The cost of producing a litre of biodiesel using the Biox process is about 0.08 cents/litre, making it competitive with petro diesel. As others have pointed out, B100 reduces hydrocarbon emissions by up to 80%, and CO and soot by 50%. There is NO evidence that vegetable oils have less energy density than petroleum oils. A number of large PUC and city governments in Ontario and PQ are using B100 in the summer, B20 in the winter, for all their diesel equipment and vehicles. The only remaining hurdle is winter. Vegetable and animal-based fats tend to solidify earlier than petro, so it's still necessary to use a B20 or lower mixture when it get's really cold. I'm sure that if even a tiny fraction of the money thrown at petro extraction were turned towards solving the biodiesel cold flow problem, B100 would be viable in all climates. Additional resources: http://www.biodieselnow.com/ D. __________________________________________________ To unsubscribe: see http://lists.mbz.org/diesel/ Archives are at http://lists.mbz.org/diesel/archives/ MBZ.ORG official parts vendor: http://parts.catalog.mbz.org eBay specials: http://ebay.mbz.org ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> 4 DVDs Free +s&p Join Now http://us.click.yahoo.com/pt6YBB/NXiEAA/mG3HAA/9bTolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Biofuels at Journey to Forever http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel at WebConX http://www.webconx.dns2go.com/2000/biofuel/biofuel.htm List messages are archived at the Info-Archive at NNYTech: http://archive.nnytech.net/ 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/
