Peanut Oil
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DO you still run peanut oil now or what are you doing. If u are running peanut oil how much are you paying and where are you getting it. I check and for a 5 gallon jug of peanut oil is like 4o dallors out here in ca.
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Peanut oil used to be 9.95 for 5 gallons at Costco 4 years ago. Now I can't find it anymore except in small containers and it's way too expensive. Someone must have figured out how I was beating the oil companies out of some money.
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Well it's funny you should ask. You see newer engines have been designed to more effiecently burn a specfic type of fuel "#2 Diesel" which, I beleive, is located in the cracker between MGO (Marine Gas Oil) and #2 Kerosine.
Fuels like Peanut oil or for a better term SVO / VVO. Still have quite a lot of glycerine in thier make up. That lowers thier Cetane somewhat. They are by definition an imperfect fuel.
What people have to understand is that they will burn and they will run on 24V engines but to do so much less efficently. ( less smoke) you have to reduce the Glycerine by Processing it in to Biodiesel
OR
You can heat it up before you burn it. This reduces the amount of heat the engine has to impart to the fuel as a part of compression. (diesels ignite thier fuel by the heat of compression.
Just a side note. The most efficent Diesel Engine running today to my knowledge is manufactured by MAN-B&W. (Germans go figure) This engine is more than likely the size of your house. It's 3 stories tall. Can have between 6 and 12 cyl's. It's a 2 stroke uniflow design. And it' burns IMO fuel. IMO is a few grades above Tar the stuff your diveway and highway has in it. IMO has to be heated up to 180+ deg F. These Engines run on IMO and move products on vessels from China to the West Coast as well as all over the world. These engines can be from 10, 000 BHP to over 100,000 BHP.
Hope that answers your question.
Fuels like Peanut oil or for a better term SVO / VVO. Still have quite a lot of glycerine in thier make up. That lowers thier Cetane somewhat. They are by definition an imperfect fuel.
What people have to understand is that they will burn and they will run on 24V engines but to do so much less efficently. ( less smoke) you have to reduce the Glycerine by Processing it in to Biodiesel
OR
You can heat it up before you burn it. This reduces the amount of heat the engine has to impart to the fuel as a part of compression. (diesels ignite thier fuel by the heat of compression.
Just a side note. The most efficent Diesel Engine running today to my knowledge is manufactured by MAN-B&W. (Germans go figure) This engine is more than likely the size of your house. It's 3 stories tall. Can have between 6 and 12 cyl's. It's a 2 stroke uniflow design. And it' burns IMO fuel. IMO is a few grades above Tar the stuff your diveway and highway has in it. IMO has to be heated up to 180+ deg F. These Engines run on IMO and move products on vessels from China to the West Coast as well as all over the world. These engines can be from 10, 000 BHP to over 100,000 BHP.
Hope that answers your question.
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This post should have stayed dead years ago. Farm subsidies ended at the end of 2008 and vegetable oil prices quadrupled over night. Thank you Bush administration (had to pay for the war in Iraq). Though I am against subsidizing farmers I did like the cheap cost of corn syrup and veggie oil.
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Did the peanut oil clog up your filters or make your truck's common rail engine run bad in anyway?
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