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Diesel fuel equivalent.

  • 23-11-2009 11:21pm
    #1
    txpjl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 233 ✭✭


    What other fuels can a diesel engine burn?

    Isn't there a recycled vegetable oil equivalent?

    Anybody have any details on this? Cost, MPG, availability, recommended etc

    Thanks guys


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  • #2
    Mr Benevolent
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,456 ✭✭✭✭Mr Benevolent


    txpjl wrote: »
    What other fuels can a diesel engine burn?

    Isn't there a recycled vegetable oil equivalent?

    Anybody have any details on this? Cost, MPG, availability, recommended etc

    Thanks guys

    Kerosene/home heating oil (with 100ml of lubricant added per tank), most jet fuels with the same treatment, used and filtered veggie oil. All except the veggie oil are illegal to use in road vehicles.


  • #3
    demag
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 122 ✭✭demag


    My transit runs on pure veg oil, more power, 82c per litre, smells like a bbq. No problems whatsoever.


  • #4
    R.O.R
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,712 ✭✭✭✭R.O.R


    demag wrote: »
    My transit runs on pure veg oil, more power, 82c per litre, smells like a bbq. No problems whatsoever.

    Is 82c including duty on the fuel?


  • #5
    SC024
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 586 ✭✭✭SC024


    R.O.R wrote: »
    Is 82c including duty on the fuel?

    You shouldn't ask questions like that...


  • #6
    Cionád
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,002 ✭✭✭Cionád


    SC024 wrote: »
    You shouldn't ask questions like that...

    I think he's a Garda ;)


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  • #7
    Mitch Connor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 46,861 ✭✭✭✭Mitch Connor


    Cionád wrote: »
    I think he's a Garda ;)

    surely that would be entrapment then!


  • #8
    demag
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 122 ✭✭demag


    guards wouldn't ask ya that, he's gotta be customs. Actually called revenue about paying it and was told that I can't pay it.


  • #9
    zilog_jones
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,638 ✭✭✭zilog_jones


    Is it not more complicated to get common rail diesels running on alternative fuels?


  • #10
    peasant
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,819 ✭✭✭✭peasant


    The first ever Diesel engine (the one that Rudolf Diesel patented) actually ran on peanut oil :D


  • #11
    txpjl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 233 ✭✭txpjl


    Thanks for the replies.


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  • #12
    746watts
    Closed Accounts Posts: 193 ✭✭746watts


    Confab wrote: »
    Kerosene/home heating oil (with 100ml of lubricant added per tank), most jet fuels with the same treatment, used and filtered veggie oil. All except the veggie oil are illegal to use in road vehicles.

    correct, Ireland, Austria and Australia don't apply a duty to use of veggie oil and are legal to use as best I know (reported in Irish Times about 4 years ago I think). Consult someone official before using if you're worried.

    Old 2.8 trooper runs on a 50% mix of new veggie oil/diesel. Landcruiser runs on 25% mix (didnt try any higher %)
    Current price of veggie oil is 99c litre and is too expensive to be worthwhile IMO.

    I wouldn't use Used filtered veggie oil as food preservatives may dissolve in the oil and may deposit in your cylinder causing wear possibly. No proof of it, but not willing to chance it.


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