Why use Vegetable Oil as fuel?
Diesel engines are uniquely suited to run vegetable oils because the inventor, Rudolph Diesel (1858-1913) originally designed them to run off of peanut oil. Today’s diesel engines are not much different from Diesel’s first engine. Thus, they are ready, willing and able to run on all kinds of environmentally friendly fuels. Financial: Imagine that you pay $20/week on gas. Then a SVO kit allows you to use 50/50% mixture of Diesel/WVO. You save $10/week or $40/month or $480/year! Basically you’ll no longer have to pay for most of your fuel. Just to filter/de-water the oil. Good for the environment: Reduces emissions. There is a 90% reduction in emissions when choosing to use pure bio fuel over petroleum diesel. A big plus is that sulfur (which causes acid rain) is eliminated since WVO contains no sulfur. Soot from petroleum fueled Diesel engines is carcinogenic and can cause serious respiratory problems. That is severely lessened. Also by collecting waste oil you’re reusing a source that
Related Questions
- If the waste derived fuel has non hydrocarbon content, eg vegetable oil, can this be discounted from the total for the purpose of duty?
- What if a customer has access to a suitable renewable fuel supply (such as waste vegetable oil), would Cantium help exploit it?
- Can vegetable oil be used or sold as motor fuel free of excise duty?
