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BIODIESEL FUEL IS BETTER FOR YOUR TRUCK
Biodiesel is America's homegrown, clean air alternative to imported petroleum.
Biodiesel can be produced from domestic renewable resources including vegetable oils and recycled restaurant grease. Pure biodiesel contains no petroleum, but it can be blended at any level with petroleum diesel to create a biodiesel blend. It can be used in compression-ignition (diesel) engines with no major modifications. Biodiesel is simple to use, biodegradable, nontoxic, and essentially free of sulphur and aromatics.
Virgin vegetable oil used for the manufacture of biodiesel can be harvested from many oil feedstock plants like soybeans, sunflower seeds, rape seeds, palm oil and even some types of algae. Recycled vegetable oil from local restaurants and other used sources are also a useful reservoir of renewable fuel for diesel engines as approximately 4.5 billion gallons per year of used vegetable oil is available in the USA.
The concept of using vegetable oil as a fuel dates back to 1895 when Dr. Rudolf Diesel developed the first diesel engine to run on vegetable oil. He demonstrated his engine at the World Exhibition in Paris in 1900 and described an experiment using peanut oil as fuel in his engine.
The overall smog forming potential from biodiesel hydrocarbon emissions is nearly 50% less than that measured for ordinary diesel fuel.
 Biodiesel is cleaner than diesel fuel
Biodiesel has detergent qualities that can clean out solid matter that is deposited by petroleum fuel in existing fuel tanks.
Biodiesel will clean your injectors and fuel lines extremely well as it is such an excellent solvent. If you have an old diesel vehicle, there is a chance that your first tank or two of Biodiesel could free up all the accumulated crud and clog your fuel lines. First time bunkering you need to be aware that Biodiesel has a solvent effect which may release deposits accumulated on tank walls and pipes from previous fuel storage. The release of deposits may clog filters initially and precautions should be taken as the tanks are cleaned out by the Biodiesel.
Biodiesel has desirable degradation attributes which make it the fuel of choice for environmentally conscious users. Studies at the University of Idaho, compared the biodegradation of biodiesel in an aqueous solution to diesel fuel and dextrose (sugar). Biodiesel samples degraded more rapidly than sugar, and were 95% degraded at the end of 28 days. Normal petroleum based diesel fuel was only about 40% degraded after the same 28 day test period.
Blending biodiesel with regular petroleum based diesel fuel accelerates the blended fuel's overall biodegradability. For example, blends of 20% biodiesel and 80% diesel fuel (B20) degraded twice as fast as petroleum diesel. 100% pure biodiesel degrades as fast as sugar and a 20% blend will degrade twice as fast as petroleum based diesel fuel.
The concept of using vegetable oil as a fuel dates back to 1895 when Dr. Rudolf Diesel developed the first diesel engine to run on vegetable oil. He demonstrated his engine at the World Exhibition in Paris in 1900 and described an experiment using peanut oil as fuel in his engine.
In 1911 Rudolf Diesel stated: "The diesel engine can be fed with vegetable oils and would help considerably in the development of agriculture of the countries which use it." In 1912, Diesel said "the use of vegetable oils for engine fuels may seem insignificant today. But such oils may become in course of time as important as petroleum and the coal tar products of the present time."
Let's make his statement come true in the 21st century...
Biodiesel has more lubricity
Biodiesel has higher cetane
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