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Vegetable Oil—The New Fuel? As the world watches the price of crude oil fluctuate in response to the conflict in Iraq, chemists and advocates for alternative energy technologies are training their sights on the grease used to cook French fries. Ford is a leader of what he hopes will be a revolution based on the use of vegetable oils to do everything from power cars and protect their engines to serve as the primary lubricant for industrial applications such as the operation of heavy machinery. The NCAUR researchers say their chemically modified soybean oil is a simple, cost-effective method for enhancing the temperature stability and lubricity of vegetable oil, while retaining its basic chemistry. news.nationalgeographic.com /news/2003/04/0422_030422_veggiefuels.html   (615 words)

Vegetable oil - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Vegetable oil or vegoil is fat extracted from plant sources, known as oil plants. Vegetable oils are used as cooking oils and for industrial uses. Vegetable oils are increasingly being used in the electrical industry as insulators as vegetable oils are non-toxic to the environment, biodegradable if spilled and have high flash and fire points. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vegetable_oil   (1590 words)

Waste vegetable oil - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia As of 2003, the use of waste vegetable oil in animal feed is no longer permitted in the European Union, but continues in the United States. They run poorly on unmodified vegetable oil, with a risk of damage - the fine ports of injectors can be clogged by carbon which forms from the slow or incomplete combustion of heavier fractions of vegetable oil, while the injection pump may suffer premature wear due to the fuel's relatively poor lubricating properties. As of 2000, the United States were producing in excess of 11 billion liters (0.011 km³) of waste vegetable oil annually, mainly from industrial deep fryers in potato processing plants, snack food factories and fast food restaurants. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Waste_vegetable_oil   (666 words)

Straight Vegetable Oil   (Site not responding. Last check: ) It is possible to use unmodified vegetable oils as a neat fuel for diesel engines within certain limitations. The higher the level of saturated fatty acids present in the oil, the lower the iodine value and the more resistant to oxidation the oil will be, as the oxygen reacts with the carbon-carbon double bonds present in unsaturated fatty acids. The lines carrying vegetable oil to the filter can also be heated by bundling them together with coolant lines traveling back to the tank, or by using special "hose-in-hose' lines that carry fuel in an inner hose surrounded by an outer hose that carries the coolant. www.boulderbiodiesel.com /john/SVO/index.jsp   (1695 words)

Vegetable Oil Mist Vegetable oil mist is the finely divided particulate (mist) of a vegetable oil. Vegetable oil mists seem to have little adverse effect on the lungs and do not produce significant organic disease or toxic effects when exposures are kept under reasonable control [ACGIH 1991]. Vegetable oil mist is not subject to EPA emergency planning requirements under the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act (SARA) (Title III) in 42 USC 11022. www.osha.gov /SLTC/healthguidelines/vegetableoilmist/recognition.html   (2464 words)

Digestive Facts - Reheating Vegetable Oil Releases Toxin: Study For example, soybean oil is about 54 percent linoleic, canola a bit lower, corn oil a little higher, maybe 60 percent, and sunflower oil is even higher than that," she added. A study they published last year in the Journal of the American Oil Chemists' Society also found that the level of absorbed HNE in French fries was equal to HNE concentrations in the oil the fries were cooked in, she said. Other polyunsaturated oils such as soybean, corn, canola or sunflower "might better be used at room temperature, such as in salad dressings," she added. www.digestivefacts.com /ms/news/525569/main.html   (1362 words)

NFA/GC Veggie Golf - Technical Specs Greasecar has developed a set of modifications to the vehicle which allow it to run on straight (unprocessed) vegetable oil, using the car's own heat. In fact, mechanics have qualitatively determined that vegetable oil based fuels are better for the engine than regular diesel, due to higher lubricity. In short, no. Running straight vegetable oil in your car is looked at as operating a homemade fuel, and as such, is unregulated. www.veggiegolf.com /car.html   (561 words)

200. Brominated vegetable oils (FAO Nutrition Meetings Report Series 48a) Feeding of brominated maize oil appears to cause an accumulation of organically bound bromine in adipose tissues and organ fat of the rat, pig and man, and this lipid-bound bromine is released slowly. Brominated cottonseed oil was administered orally to groups of 5 male rats in doses of 2 500, 5 000 and 10 000 mg/kg/day. Short-term studies Rat Three groups of 16 young male and female rats were fed for 8 weeks either 0.5% brominated olive oil, plain olive oil or 0.22% sodium bromide (equivalent to the total bromine in oil) in their diet. www.inchem.org /documents/jecfa/jecmono/v48aje02.htm   (1473 words)

New Window - Waitrose.com - Glossary Term - Oil This oil is obtained from the refining of oils which fail to qualify for the grade of virgin oil, either because of defective flavour or excessive acidity. Spanish olive oil tends to be light and fragrant - ideal for salad dressings or serve as an alternative to butter with bread - simply dip the bread into the oil. Similar to sunflower oil (the two are interchangeable) this light oil is made from safflowers which are in fact from the same family as the sunflower. www.waitrose.com /frontend/popups/rec_gloss.asp?uidstr=226   (1360 words)

Make your own biodiesel: Journey to Forever We used 2 litres of methanol to 10 litres of vegetable oil, and 3.5 grams of pure, granular lye (sodium hydroxide) per litre of oil -- 35 grams for 10 litres. Meanwhile we'd warmed the 10 litres of new oil in a 20-litre steel oil drum to about 40 deg C (104 deg F) to thin it so it mixed better (55 deg C, 131 deg F, is a better processing temperature). Water in vegetable oil can exist as free water, which will eventually settle to the bottom of a vessel; as suspended droplets, which may settle if the oil is heated, or the droplets are coalesced; and as water in solution with other impurities in the oil. journeytoforever.org /biodiesel_make.html   (8092 words)

CNN.com - Vegetable oil carries kids across country - May. 21, 2003 Vegetable oil creates less pollution than diesel fuel, said Thomas Hand, 19, who took a crash course at Middlebury in converting diesel tractor engines to run on vegetable oil. The students are not the first to power their wheels with vegetable oil. The students filter the vegetable oil and store it in two vats on the bus. edition.cnn.com /2003/EDUCATION/05/21/vegetable.oil.bus.ap   (448 words)

Frybrid Vegetable Oil Fuel Systems The diesel engine can be fed with vegetable oils and would help considerably in the development of agriculture of the countries which use it. None of the metals in contact with the fuel tank are reactive to vegetable oils and the heat exchanger has more than 30 sq ft of surface area. The Frybrid GEN-3 monitors engine coolant temperature and seamlessly switches the engines fuel supply from diesel or Bio-diesel to vegetable oil only when the vegetable oil is at the proper temperature preventing the injection of cold vegetable oil which results in engine damage. www.frybrid.com   (1239 words)

- toledoblade.com -   (Site not responding. Last check: ) Diesel fuel is chemically similar to canola oil in the amount of energy per gallon it produces and its burning characteristics, Mr. Because vegetable oil is more viscous, it must be heated before it passes through the engine. Bio-diesel, treated vegetable oil that can be pumped directly into tanks, is used some places, but many are choosing to save money by altering their cars. www.toledoblade.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?Site=TO&Date=20020719&Category=NEWS17&ArtNo=107190071&Ref=AR   (634 words)

BBC NEWS | Wales | South West Wales | Drive promotes cooking oil fuel Each month he tells the authorities how much vegetable oil he has used and estimates it costs him about 73p a litre - which is cheaper than diesel and perfectly legal. He said the arrests in Llanelli last year had detracted from the positive case for vegetable oil as a fuel and most people now thought it was illegal. Customs and Excise say the duty on vegetable oil as a fuel is 25.82p per litre, 20p less than ultra-low sulphur diesel. news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/wales/south_west/3104763.stm   (480 words)

Using Vegetable Oil to Propel Cars   (Site not responding. Last check: ) RIO DE JANEIRO - The oil used in the preparation of the McDonald’s restaurant chain’s fried potatoes is one of the ingredients in a new fuel being developed in Brazil to replace gasoline in cars. Using the vegetable oil-based fuel would favor the installation of catalytic converters in diesel-driven cars, an impossibility today due to the excessive emissions of sulfur, Luciano Basto, project coordinator, told Tierramérica. Utilizing these oils can contribute to garbage volumes, but the difficulties in collecting this unusual resource have yet to be resolved. www.tierramerica.net /2002/0127/iacentos.shtml   (547 words)

RUN a DIESEL CAR on VEGETABLE OIL At 42p a litre, the supermarket chain's oil is considerably cheaper than the 73p a litre that even a discounted retailer charges for diesel. They were protesting against levels of fuel duty that they considered unsustainable, and their blockade was so successful that, after a couple of days of panic buying, virtually every garage in the principality had run out of stocks. "I get the oil for nothing and pay 26p a litre in duty on it, which still makes it a lot cheaper than diesel at the pumps," he says, flourishing a form on to which he is obliged to list every litre of fuel he filters through the modified oil drum in his garage. www.sovereignty.org.uk /features/eco/biofuel.html   (2054 words)

Car and Driver Magazine - The Vegetable-Oil Alternative - March 2004 Restaurants pay to have their used oil hauled away, so it's likely they'll be delighted to have you haul it away for nothing. However, the hydrogenated oils used in fast-food franchises have a pastelike consistency even at temperatures of 90 degrees, so they aren't ideal diesel fuel—and the Greasecar experience has been that Mickey D and his fast-food brethren can't give away oil without reams of franchise-required paperwork. He became interested in attempts to use vegetable oil as fuel in Africa, where diesel fuel is too pricey for local farm tractors. www.caranddriver.com /article.asp?section_id=4&article_id=7818&page_number=1   (753 words)

PlantDrive™ - WVO, SVO vegetable oil fuel system, gas alternative, biodiesel PlantDrive™ provides high quality kits and components for the conversion of diesel engines to use 100% vegetable oil as fuel without chemical processing or addition of harmful chemicals. Renewable vegetable oil, used as fuel in an efficient diesel engine, is the most affordable and technically feasible carbon- neutral fuel available today! The use of 100% vegetable oil as fuel is often called "SVO". www.plantdrive.com   (519 words)

Vegetable oil Benz - hack a day - www.hackaday.com _ Vegetable oil can gel and even solidify when the outdoor temperature drops so the tank has a built in heat exchanger to warm the oil with engine coolant. Note that biodiesel and veggie oil are two seperate things, biodiesel involves chemcailly breaking down veggie oil so that it can be combused straight through a diesel engine, rather than having to switch over to it from a second tank. Oil is also a main source of US electical power; cars are a tiny fraction of our oil production. www.hackaday.com /entry/1234000653064392   (5327 words)

Vegetable Oil   (Site not responding. Last check: ) Elsbett-conversions and —kits are optimised for the use of straight / pure (new or recycled one) vegetable oils(SVO), which are equal to the quality standard and are not otherwise chemical or mechanical contaminated. Is nearly equal for all vegetable oils, but 10% less in comparison to diesel fuel. When the oil is cold pressed or refined normally the content of phosphorus is within the limits. www.elsbett.de /engl/oil.htm   (404 words)

Straight vegetable oil as diesel fuel: Journey to Forever Vegetable oil can be used as diesel fuel just as it is, without being converted to biodiesel. The more people use straight vegetable oil, with whatever system, good or bad, the more likely it is that the car manufacturers will start to take some notice and begin to realise that there is a market for true multi-fuel capability diesel engines, and put some RandD effort into it at last. That it's "untreated" is a myth -- most oils have to be de-gummed, deacidified, and usually winterized, it also involves chemical treatments, and there are centralized factories in Europe that process fuel-grade vegetable oil, much the same as for food-grade oils. journeytoforever.org /biodiesel_svo.html   (8029 words)

Vegetable Oil Power Station Vegetable Oil Aggregate Vegetable Oil Power Station Vegetable Oil Aggregate Krampitz Tanksystem GmbH is a highly specialised manufacturer of transport and storage tank systems for fuel and lubricating oils. Our customers are global operating companies in the power plant, mining and oil field equipment industries as well as in the mineral oil and distribution industry. In our example illustration, a multi-chamber tank module (separate tank chambers) is shown for compact storage of vegetable oil, bio diesel, urea, fresh and waste oil. www.tank-system.com /minotaur_vegetable_oil_power_station_vegetable_oil_aggregate/vegetable_oil_power_station_vegetable_oil_aggregate.php   (986 words)

Veg-Oil-Car.com - -Welcome This site aims to help and guide those interested in running vehicles from vegetable oil on the practicalities, pit falls and legal issues here in the UK. This is NOT Bio-diesel — this is pure vegetable oil which has not been through the chemical process to turn it into bio-diesel. I offer services to individuals and companies wishing to implement vegetable oil conversions to vehicles including supply and installation of conversion kits and supply of bulk new and used oil as well as consultancy. www.geocities.com /vegoilcar   (263 words)

MSN Money - Fill your tank with vegetable oil Most diesel engines were indeed run on vegetable oil until the 1920s, when the petroleum industry promoted a gasoline byproduct as diesel fuel. The old oil from the deep-fat fryer is heated and run through a filter, and then it's down the hatch into Gurney's '84 Peugeot diesel wagon to a second fuel tank installed in the spare tire well. A hose from the radiator runs to a copper coil in the tank, heating the oil to a more combustible and viscous state before it heads to the engine. moneycentral.msn.com /content/Savinganddebt/Saveonacar/P115218.asp   (1705 words)

An Elsbett single tank VW TDI waste vegetable oil conversion Assuming I use free waste fryer oil and my time is free, I should recover the cost of the kit in just over one year. Plumbing: Instead of plumbing it into the oil cooler lines, I instead "T"'d into the 5/8 fl hose that is beside the oil cooler hose. oil and won't change, or are inconsequetial or difficult to test and correct. ctbiodzl.freeshell.org /votdi.html   (5510 words)

Wired News: Veggie Fuels Feed Bottom Line   (Site not responding. Last check: ) When Joshua Tickell drove his Veggie Van across the country in 1997, fueling it with used vegetable oil he obtained at Kentucky Fried Chicken, Long John Silver's and other fast food chains owned by PepsiCo, he received a great deal of lighthearted attention from the mainstream media for the van's deep-fried fumes. A curious blend of consumers -- from clean-air activists to school districts to the U.S. military (PDF) -- are now running their diesel engines off either straight vegetable oil, known as SVO, or vegetable oil that has been converted to diesel fuel, or biodiesel. Although soybean oil has been the primary source of commercial U.S. biodiesel, canola oil is used widely in German biodiesel production, and is considered the superior crop. www.wired.com /news/autotech/0,2554,59713,00.html   (946 words)

fully submerged cooling - hack a day - www.hackaday.com _ Food grade oils have the tendancy to rot, while petrolium and mineral oils are more stable against rotting. a pertion of the evaporator coil became airborne, water condensed on it, and contaminated the minneral oil. Yeah, i used vegetbale oil i think 3 years ago, stuck the whole thing in an old freezer i ahd, ran extension cable for everything out through holes i drilled, and it worked fine. www.hackaday.com /entry/1234000287041976   (3669 words)

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