Posted by Paul in MN on July 30, 2009 at 13:53:58 from (207.224.90.31):
In Reply to: Bio Diesel posted by FJGFARM on July 30, 2009 at 10:19:45:
My son works in the research area of the Ag Engineering Dept at U of Minn. They were successfully running common diesel engines on 100 % Bio. We ran all of our diesels (1968 Ford 8000 tractor, + 2 newer Ford tractors, + 3688 IH, + CIH 1060, + older IH combine, plus 2 Ford powerstroke pickups (paid the road tax). We had no problems and no filter changes necessary. But availability of B100 was an issue, and we got another supplier. It seems their Bio was made from waste animal fat, and maybe not made correctly. It gave us problems with fuel filters jamming in cold weather with little white balls. The soy B100 never gave us a problem. The second supplier had also flushed his tanks with methanol and that ate the heck out of the rubber return lines, heater lines, and hydraulic lines (where it had dripped from a destroyed rubber return line).
When we had the B100 soy diesel, we liked it. The engines seemed to have the same power, they ran quieter and much cleaner and didn't drive us nuts with diesel fumes. Much less exhaust smoke and cleaner engine oil. We didn't have gelling problems, but did use the normal antigel stuff. The injector pumps and injectors like the better lubricity of the Bio fuel.
When we had the B100 from the animal waste fat, we hated it, especially when it got down to 0*F. The little white spheres were jamming up the bulk tank filters and the engine filters. The excess methanol ate up a lot of parts and $$.
With the required lower (0%) sulfur, our diesel tanks are now home to a lot of black algae, as evidenced by cutting filters apart when they jam up. We had never had this problem before in 30 years of farming. I suspect the bio blends in the no sulfur dino will host algae forever, or until the refinerys put algicide in the dino before it goes into their storage tanks.
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