BioDiesel risk

>>> I don't think Gull or anyone would sell a product that they knew was faulty or may casue major damage -

remember BP with their first effort of Low Sulphur killing pumps?

Exactly Pezza. How could VW, BMW and other European manufacturers say biodiesel is no good?

aren't about 40-70% (depending on the country) of new passenger cars built in Europe running on biodiesel?

VW and BMW must use different engines in the cars they export to Australia.

What crap.

The first diesels were designed and built to run on PEANUT OIL! How many vegetable oil manufacturers are in bed with corporate VW and BMW Australia?

Barnesy

Yep, read that and thought - scare mongor!.

I've used over 600L of B100 through the surf so far without a single hassel. In fact I reckon it runs better.

Anyway, I don't really give a hoot, the more left for me if noone else uses it, at more than 40c a litire cheaper the less demand on it the better for me!

Jeff, 40c a litre cheaper, do you make your own?

No I buy it locally from a guy who's making it commercially. I buy it in 200L drums.

Same here. I have run mine with no problems at all. The second filter doesn't need changing anymore than when running on commercial diesel and when I do change it every 30,000km is hardly contaminated at all.
I have even poured the oil out of the deep fryer through a coffee filter and chucked that in as well.

I think the main problem is that they don’t want to say yes to Bio-D as you can knock it up in the back shed and there is no control over the quality, so I can see their point.

hi hanson do you have a recipe for making your diesel and what quanties do you make your batches in

Regards BigFella

Gidday Hanson,
I to am very interested in your recipe and setup. I'm keen to start making my own bioD.

use google people theres dozens of recipes on biodiesel

goto google and type in Biodiesel, then look...

better still, Bio Fuels Forum.

hi big fella, got my recipe from a book printed in Tassie, it's in shed at moment not very technical at all will check out name and details tomorrow .... hanson

Andrew,
Sorry, no scanner. The paper is, as in the original post, the West Australian.
Inside there is a supplement called 'Motoring'.
Does the SA Saturday or Sunday paper have a similar supplement? If so the article possibly reproduced there.
Banjo (WA)

no probs Banjo - the News Ltd paper on Sat didn't have that article in the Motoring section damn it.

Ciao for now
Andrew.

Of course the design of the diesel engine has changed since then, his first engines did not have an injector pump and weighed 250 kg to make 1 hp. It wasn't untill a system of metered fuel delivery was introduced (about 1920) that the diesel engine became useful. About 1926 it was used quite a lot in "lorries". About the only things todays engines have in common with his is the operating principle and the basic piston and bore design.

Tex

and the ability to run very efficiently on transesterified biomass - otherwise known as biodiesel.

Actually the first diesels ran on coal dust.

the gov't standard for diesel is never going to be met by biodiesel, but then neither is fossil fuel diesel ever going to meet the standard for Biodiesel.

Even the parts of it that would matter for fossil fuel, Australian Standard Biodiesel is a much better product.

Certainly, home made biodiesel (which WA is famous for) is unlikely to have been standards tested (certainly not every batch as you have with commercial biodiesel - a requirement in order for the industry to get a rebate!), and could be prone to microbial contamination, high gel point (depending on the feedstock), other contaminants from the reaction or other sources, but for all that, the process of making Biodiesel ensures a high level of quality - if the reaction has occured to completion, the biodiesel naturally separates from the other products (and for that matter unreacted fatty acids) so that there are little contaminants likely to be found after combustion in the engine that the big car companies could notice anyways.

Ciao for now
Andrew.