Vegetable oil used as fuel 13 Articles

by Aldo Bonincontro

The vegetable oil can be used as fuel for engines or burners to replace the gas-oil produced from oil and avoid an increase of greenhouse effect gases, mainly CO2. This oil is as well made of long-chain hydrocarbons, alth...read more

by Phil P

Engineers and enthusiasts have been experimenting with using vegetable oil as fuel for a diesel engine since as early as 1900. Only one group reviewed study exists that diligintly compared long term use of vegetable oil an...read more

by Bob Schmidt

Vegetable oil as a fuel is just as viable as making your own drinking whisky in your own still instead of buying the ready-made product that is convenient. What's more, it is just about as practical. Not only ...read more

by Jack Burton

Waste vegetable oil is free and can be found at any place that cooks allot of fried food. Waste vegetable oil is cheap and works in diesel engines. Specifically, diesel generators and vehicles. Waste vegetable oil produces...read more

by Lee Gee

There are many different fuels we can use to power our motor vehicles. Some of these fuels have been categorized and labeled as 'alternative' fuels. This is a label given to any fuel other than the conventional fuels of ...read more

by D. O'Larde

SVO, straight vegetable oil fuel can be used on diesel engine vehicles without any modifications to the engine. Of course, you do not get the oil from the grocery stores. You can start putting up a business of recycling us...read more

by Erin K. Wiedemer

"Raw vegetable oil cannot meet biodiesel fuel specifications, it is not registered with the EPA, and it is not a legal motor fuel ," however, when it is processed via transesterification, this raw vegetable oil becomes a p...read more

by prime-Hm

Vegetable oils may have inherited properties of certain fuel oils like disel. Some common oil properties that may be comparable to vegetable oil are viscosity which is quite high than amny normal liquids,and stability to...read more

by Richard Serra

If done right these fuels do work without any risk of damage to the engine, but too often many engines have had their warranties voided as a result of using vegetable oil as a means to power up their vehicles. Unless th...read more

by CD Gozzi

Using straight vegetable oil (SVO) as a fuel is not a new subject. Dr. Rudolph Diesel demonstrated his engine (the Diesel engine) could run very effectively on peanut oil back in 1895. Daniel Blackburn in West Wales confi...read more

by Smartie Pants

Vegetable oil isn't yet a viable fuel. If you heat it you can run it in a diesel, or you can crack it into bio diesel. Great, but it's still too much money so far to do that. But it doesn't have to be. Much of the cost o...read more

by Helen Konrad

Vegetable oil as a fuel? Not so strange a thought. As Taylor wrote, History repeats itself. It has to. No-one listens the first time," so is true for diesel engines. The diesel engine was invented by Rudolph Diesel w...read more

by Fisa Mihy-Mihyndu

Corn is a great example of vegetable oil which could be used as fuel for our vehicles,planes,and other fuel functioning appliances.It is closely being studied by several scientists throughout the USA. Corn is a great ...read more