[AT] Canola to diesel

[Tom Yasnowski]

I am running a 83 MBenz 300SD on used straight vegetable oil from a 
restaraunt. Need to
get the oil heated to 160F before the IP...no need to make it into diesel..


>From: "Dan Folske" <dfolske at nccray.net>
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>To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>Subject: Re: [AT] Canola to diesel
>Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2007 18:26:36 -0600
>
>Several canola biodiesel plants are being built in North Dakota and
>Saskatchewan.
>Dan
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "carl gogol" <cgogol at twcny.rr.com>
>To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>Sent: Saturday, February 03, 2007 5:35 PM
>Subject: [AT] Canola to diesel
>
>
> > Anyone else hearing interesting things about converting Canola to diesel
> > fuel?  I believe that one efficiency study that said ethanol from corn 
>was
> > 18% energy positive calculated canola to diesel was in the range of 
>400%,
> > using the same protocols.  Please don't hold me to these being the exact
> > numbers, but the economics of canola are much more favorable.  It may 
>have
> > even been the Cornell study, but I think that their result was the 
>ethanol
> > from corn was about 20% to the bad.  Canola is easy to grow (at least in
>the
> > northern states and Canada) requires few inputs and is weather tolerant.
>I
> > know there is a small group in this area that is trying it on a very 
>small
> > scale, but are just getting underway.
> > Anyone else doing anything with Canola?
> >
> > Carl Gogol
> > Manlius, NY
> > AC One Seventy diesel
> > (2) AC D-14, AC 914H
> > Simplicity 3112 & 7116
> > Kubota F-2400
> >
> >
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