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Run Your Diesel Vehicle on Biofuels
A Do-It-Yourself Manual
by 
Jon Starbuck
Gavin D. J. Harper
  
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Subject(s):  Nonfiction
Technology
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File size:   5388 KB
ISBN:   9780071600446
Release date:   Jan 15, 2009

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CONVERT TO BIODIESEL FOR A MORE ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY RIDERun Your Diesel Vehicle on Biofuels has everything you need to make the switch from expensive, environment-damaging carbon fuel to cheap (and, in many cases, free), clean fuel for your vehicle. Practical and decidedly apolitical, this unique guide focuses on technical details, parts, and instructions.

Inside, you'll find step-by-step instructions accompanied by helpful illustrations for such projects as building and properly using a homemade biodiesel reactor, which enables you to drive you car on vegetable oil purchased at a fraction of the price of gas or even on second-hand oil obtained from restaurants free of charge. Run Your Diesel Vehicle on Biofuels also includes a list of international parts suppliers and various manufacturers' warranty statuses regarding vehicles converted to biodiesel.

Projects include:

  • Collecting waste oil
  • Building a waste-oil processor
  • Creating biodiesel fuel
  • Converting your car to professional standards
  • Constructing heat exchangers

Run Your Diesel Vehicle on Biofuels covers:
• History and functions of the diesel engine • Benefits of biofuel • Where to obtain raw ingredients • Theory of fuel conversion • Existing conversion kits o Blends, emulsions, and thinners • Processing and discarding waste oil • Laws and regulations • Green retail o Health and safety • Limitations of environmental benefits

Table of Contents

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1. Introduction

Chapter 2. History of Diesel and the diesel engine

Chapter 3. How does a diesel engine work?

Chapter 4. Collecting waste vegetable oil

Chapter 5. Biodiesel chemistry

Chapter 6. Fuel modification: making biodiesel

Chapter 7. Biodiesel reactors and processors

Chapter 8. Engine modification--running on SVO

Chapter 9. Using WVO in your SVO engine

Chapter 10. Other options and solutions

Chapter 11. Engine conversion or fuel conversion

Chapter 12. Waste streams

Chapter 13. Health and safety

Chapter 14. Biofuel ethics

Chapter 15. Biodiesel and vegetable oil are not just for cars!

Chapter 16. Epilogue

Appendix

Index

About the Author

Jon Starbuck has written websites and taught courses on the subject of vegetable oil and biodiesel.

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