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BIG ED

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I've got a chance to get some olive oil [cooking oil] cheap. Can you mix some in with the diesel fule for the tractor,to "stretch" the fuel,without harm. The oil is new,unused.
 
(quoted from post at 20:57:12 03/21/11) I've got a chance to get some olive oil [cooking oil] cheap. Can you mix some in with the diesel fule for the tractor,to "stretch" the fuel,without harm. The oil is new,unused.
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You can but I hope someone chimes in with how much (%?). Even cooking oil got more expensive here though. Used to catch it on sale for 25-40 euro cents a liter but it has just about doubled. You can always tell when someone is running cooking oil, smells like your following a deepfryer.

Dave
 
Olive oil costs 20 bucks a gallon now.It turns to a solid at 40 degrees.Olive and canola oil are the only oils that wont clog your pipes.Seems foolish to burn 20 buck a gallon olive oil when diesel fuel is 4 bucks.Get a big bag of Kennebec potatoes and make some french fries in the olive oil.
 
The cloud and pour point on diesel is extermely low these days, so you should be able to add upwards of around 10% to diesel. Do a test and pour some diesel in a glass jar and then pour a 10% mix in another jar. Swirl them and see how they move comparatively. Next put both in a freezer and observe every 5 minutes for about 30 minutes. If you get a really quick freeze on the blend, you have added too much. We run testing aimed at those specs. A lot of guys in our area are giving up on making Bio diesel because of the glycerin byproduct that they can"t use. They are now sock filtering and blending, just as you are suggesting.
www.fuelsandlubestechnologies.org
 
The way I understand bio fuels is the corn/beans go through fermentation or acid wash to become a fuel, while if olive oils were used the oil could just be pressed out of the olive.
 
Big Ed said "cheap" in his post. Plenty of people are burning straight filtered cooking oil in the warm months. They are having to fight the rendering people for it though.
 
I know a guy who uses used cooking oil. He only uses it during the summer in his haying tractors. Seems like alot of trouble filtering it and then having the filters on his tractors clog now and then. Not to mention fighting the compition to get the oil. Not worth it to me.
 
Boy I like that idea, french fries in olive oil sounds good. I heard the German army put olive oil in tanks and diesel trucks in North Africa and Italy, but they did lose ground, and the war... hey atleast it won't go sticky and gummy if you leave it sitting for awhile. It seems it has a shelf life of 4000 years or so. Won't make the hayfield smell as good as chinese takeaway peanut or sesame oil either. Better a blend than used motor oil fer sure......
 
What a shame to burn it up- I wait until its on sale to pay 8 bucks a quart for it- How cheap are you getting it?

But I suppose you would run afoul of about 27 different "agencies" if you tried to sell it as cooking oil. . .

Overheard in the exercise yard at a minimum security federal detention center:
"What you in for?"
"Bootleggin' olive oil. You?"
 
If the olive oil is edible it would be foolish to burn it.Olive oil keeps well so why is it cheap.In any case there isnt enough used fryer oil available anyway.
 
Probably aren't going to belive this,I didn't till I saw it and talked to the seller,but buying it 250 gallons at a time it would be less than a dollar a gallon. And NO !!!! it isn't stolen.
I would not be a bit scared to fry with it,but would not sell it,and then someone hit their thumb with a hammer after eating some of it,and got a "television Lawyer" to sue me.Blaming it on my oil.
I know before I post this I'm going get called a liar,but if someone wants to make a good sized bet,I'll take them with me and show them,.
He did say a Horseman was buying some to mix in feed to put shine in coats.
 
If was my oil, I'd burn at a 50/50 rate here in AZ as it's hot here. Other cooler areas, then about 80#2/20 mix.

Now if you want to make yourself an exhaust heat exchanger, then you could burn 100%OO in any climate. As someone pointed out, OO will gel at a high temperature and the exchanger stops that. You'll want about a 200ºf fuel tank for maximum power.

T_Bone
 
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