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Biofuel users

  • 07-09-2009 9:08am
    #1
    MarieKerry
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2 ✭


    Hello. Has anyone tried to use vegetable oil to run a diesel car? Am interested in understanding how this is done? Thanks.


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  • #2
    Henry Ford III
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators Posts: 17,860 Mod ✭✭✭✭Henry Ford III


    The Revenue would be interested too.


  • #3
    alias no.9
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,352 ✭✭✭alias no.9


    What kind of car have you? It's most suited to older, indirect injection diesels and even then a mechanically controlled Bosch injector pump is infinitely more suitable than an electronically controlled Bosch pump or any Lucas injector pump.


  • #4
    alias no.9
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,352 ✭✭✭alias no.9


    Henry Ford III wrote: »
    The Revenue would be interested too.

    There are a number of revenue approved suppliers of Rape Seed Oil who have a duty exemption for use in cars.


  • #5
    BeardyGit
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,946 ✭✭✭BeardyGit


    alias no.9 wrote: »
    There are a number of revenue approved suppliers of Rape Seed Oil who have a duty exemption for use in cars.

    Any links?


  • #6
    alias no.9
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,352 ✭✭✭alias no.9


    Gil_Dub wrote: »
    Any links?

    It's been a while since I lookied into it, I did my own trials before the scheme existed. I would have liked to have paid the taxes but no mechanism through which I could pay them was in existance. Your avatar says you're in Wicklow, IIRC Eilis Oils [sp?] somewhere in Wicklow are one of the suppliers.

    edit:

    http://www.eilishoils.com/ seems to be the crowd but the website is next to useless, their old one was pretty in depth about their services, I had looked into them as a supplier of oil even before they got the exemption. Supermarkets have copped onto the opportunity and now sell vegetable oil at higher prices than diesel.


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  • #7
    marzic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 784 ✭✭✭marzic


    my cousin installed an elsbett kit in a 00 berlingo to run on veg oil a couple of years ago. he's a fitter so it was no big deal for him, it involved putting in some additional components to heat up the oil for better flow, some wiring, and high spec heater plugs. then it was just pour in oil and drive off. however, it was ok for him doing only bout 100 miles a week in the thing, so he could manage with a few 2 liter bottles from the supermarket. cost was €300/400? for the kit, about €1k if you had to get fitted - some crowd in wicklow apparently do it. he said it drives just the same as diesel


  • #8
    Matt Simis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,718 ✭✭✭Matt Simis


    Please dont refer to straight Veg Oil as a biofuel, it assciociates it with actual biofuels. Doesnt Veg oil now cost more (or same as) Diesel these days?


  • #9
    alias no.9
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,352 ✭✭✭alias no.9


    Matt Simis wrote: »
    Please dont refer to straight Veg Oil as a biofuel, it assciociates it with actual biofuels.


    SVO is a BioFuel, it is not BioDiesel aka Rape Seed Methyl Ester (RSME), which is produced by the transesterification of SVO.

    Matt Simis wrote: »
    Doesnt Veg oil now cost more (or same as) Diesel these days?

    from above...
    alias no.9 wrote: »
    Supermarkets have copped onto the opportunity and now sell vegetable oil at higher prices than diesel.


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