veg oil fuel

"Motor" wrote (snip):-

There was a CS at this year's Kew Bridge Steam Museum stirling engine show running happily on vegetable oil with no mods other than coiling the fuel pipe around the exhaust a few times. I chatted to the chap and he assured me that fuel pump, injector and timing were all standard.

Nick, was that you at Lamport this weekend ignoring me!.

Mart> "Motor" wrote (snip):-

"Campingstoveman" wrote

Well, I was there on Sun. but didn't see you, and let's face it you are pretty hard to miss ;-)

I have been doing a lot of research on this topic, and I am confident that I can build a reliable (long term) system. My interest is primarily 'environmental', not economical. I want to generate electricity using renewable fuels (rapeseed oil), and waste cooking oil.

I have just converted a large-ish (20hp) chinese yanmar-copy, single cylinder diesel genset. I will be putting this up for sale (at cost) so that I can do the same with an Indian Lister.

One day I hope to make a business out of this, but for now, it is academic and 'environment preserving'.

Let me know if you want to know more.

Mark

Motor wrote:

This guy is called Ken Boak. He's a very nice man. Hopefully he will be coming to Onslow Park. He is the owner of the wastewatts yahoo discussion group, which is a very interesting forum

Mark

Nick H wrote:

"Mark Walker" wrote (snip):-

I didn't realise that was Ken, who I know well from his work with the Stirling Engine Society, but clearly not by sight!

"Mark Walker" wrote (snip):-

As a closet greeny, yes please!

This reminds a little of what I have read about the early days of the Caterpillar Diesel. Everyone seemed to think these engines will run on anything - and they will - but not for long. Cat had all sorts of problems in the early years, if I remember correctly this gave impetus to arriving at country-wide standards for diesel fuel. I am away from my books at present, but this is the way I remember it.

Hi there, I say it can and does, I run my Lister CS 6/1 on 100% WVO, it creates heating and power for my house!

If you want to find out the truth take a look at my work here

Motor:

knickers.

Could you advise how long you have to run the engine to get a full tank of (household)hot water, and how much electricity the engine is generating (if it does) while doing that?

I cannot see any belt drive off the engine, so what does the engine do while it is running?

Peter

-- Peter A Forbes Prepair Ltd, Luton, UK snipped-for-privacy@easynet.co.uk