Hazards of Biodiesel

Posted by NC Wayne on August 01, 2006 at 19:47:50 from (64.12.116.74):

I just read the post below about biodiesel and thought I'd share a few things I've seen and heard over the past couple of weeks about biodiesel. First is the effects of biodiesel on the fuel system components. I was talking to the guy we take all our fuel pumps and injectors to the other day and he clued me into what he's been seeing since the bio came into the limelight so strong. He said the moisture content of the "fuel" tended to be much higher than regular diesel. For want of a better explination he said the water was intrained in the fuel instead of setteling out like it does with regular diesel. This moisture content caused the fuel to have less of a lubricating effect on the pump parts allowing for more wear as well as causing rust/corrosion on the injector pumps internals as well as the injectors themselves. He said if your gonna run bio you need to find some kind of additive to run with it to offset these effects....but if you decide not to that's fine too because it's job security for him. He's been doing pumps since the seventies and he knows his stuff, and he's never steered us wrong before so I take that as gospel. He also said to watch out when the new ultra low diesel hits the market. The reduction in sulfur will cause pump seals that were fine with the "regular" stuff to dry out and start leaking. He said they had problems with alot of pumps when they decreased the sulfur years ago to it's present state and he's already seen a few problems recently since some stations have finally started carrying the ultra low stuff.......Just think their already talking about Ultra Ultra low dlesel and the other isn't even commonplace yet..... The other thing I heard was from a good friend that knows several guys with the Dept of Revenue here in NC. What they said, in effect, is that the "free" bio fuel thing isn't gonna last much longer. Think about it, for every gallon of bio you make and use that's state and federal road tax money lost while your still driving over state and federal roads, that still need maintance. See where I'm going with this yet? That's right they plan to tax every gallon of bio just like they do regular fuel. While I don't agree with taxes in general because of the way I've seen our tax money wasted at both the state and federal level, I can still understand their thinking from a governmental view. As it is I fill out a fuel tax report every quarter so they can divy up the fuel money I spent, by state, for every mile I traveled in that state, or get money back from those states I bought fuel in but didn't travel enough miles in to burn it all. For those of you that do it too I feel for you, it's not hard to do it's just stupid in my opinion. They usually wind up owing me back a dollar or two so it's no skin off my back directly, but think about how much money is spent every year to have an agency dedicated to a program like this....I'll get off my stump now and back to the origional topics. The first I know for fact, not just on his word which was good enough for me anyway, but he also showed me some pump parts so I could see what he was talking about. The second story I can't confirm so take it for what it's worth...it's too plausible and too much like the government not to be true.

Replies:

• Re: Hazards of Biodiesel dej(JED) 06:06:44 08/02/06 (0)
• Re: Hazards of Biodiesel John M 03:10:41 08/02/06 (0)
• Re: Hazards of Biodiesel Mark - IN. 21:28:25 08/01/06 (3)
  • Re: Hazards of Biodiesel Ken Macfarlane 04:40:39 08/02/06 (2)
    • Re: Hazards of Biodiesel Mark - IN. 05:08:31 08/02/06 (1)
      • Re: Hazards of Biodiesel Ken Macfarlane 09:35:00 08/02/06 (0)

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