Diesel from OSR?

[The Ruminant]

Anyone making their own diesel from Oilseed rape oil, or does anyone know any experts I can get in touch with? Thanks

 

[Courier]

Only advisable for pre-commonrail engines even when resin polished twice.......

 

[delilah]

We made our own for many years, mix of virgin osr oil and waste from pubs, ran on 100% worked a treat at cost of 15ppl. Gave up for a number of reasons; mucky old job, pub oil hoovered up by the big boys, and as above the commonrail engine.
The bible was 'from the fryer to the fuel tank'.

 

[deleted user 837354]

In a modern engine I wouldn't dare. You would think old boilers etc running on kero would tolerate it better. But a modern engine with common rail and piezo-injectors and DPF and variable geometry turbochargers?!

 

[The Ruminant]

OK, that seems to have answered my primary question! As a follow-up, is anyone growing anything that they're using as fuel for tractors etc? Is it possible, as farmers, to produce our own power for our machinery?

 

[delilah]

I suspect that the choice is to either stick with/ revert to diesel tractors old enough to run on home-brew, or to jump to electric tractors and produce your own via wind/pv/hydro....

 

[Happy hillbily]

3 friends of mine started years ago, buying in oil seed rape, then pressing it, and selling the oil for fuel, and selling the rape meal as animal feed.
They have stoped selling it as fuel
, and now bottling it and selling it as Blodyn Aur (More proffitabe i suppose)

Blodyn Aur

Blodyn Aur (translated to 'Golden Flower') is the only Welsh Rapeseed Oil - Welsh grown, Welsh pressed and Welsh bottled! Launched in April 2010, Blodyn Aur is run by farmers and friends Llyr Jones, Bryn Jones and Medwyn Roberts. Together they have set-up a modern oil pressing facility on Llyr’s...

www.madryn.co.uk

 

[renewablejohn]

OK, that seems to have answered my primary question! As a follow-up, is anyone growing anything that they're using as fuel for tractors etc? Is it possible, as farmers, to produce our own power for our machinery?

Probably easiest is methane if you have an AD plant. For those able to generate electric then Hydrogen or EV. If you have wood then a gasifier is feasible but make sure the gas is clean. If you have wood and OSR then Charcoal Slurry but the government have not licensed that yet.

 

[Hesstondriver]

could you grow camelina

https://arpa-e.energy.gov/?q=slick-sheet-project/jet-fuel-camelina

 

[TripleSix]

I used to run my Fourtrak on waste cooking oil.
Sometimes bought drums of new oils either direct from farm or the cash and carry whenever a good deal was to be had.
It used to be all the rage, now I don't know anyone doing it.

 

[shakerator]

Probably easiest is methane if you have an AD plant. For those able to generate electric then Hydrogen or EV. If you have wood then a gasifier is feasible but make sure the gas is clean. If you have wood and OSR then Charcoal Slurry but the government have not licensed that yet.

how dangerous is syngas ?

 

[Bloders]

i used to do it.
used waste palm oil as the source
ran my Jaguar X type (common rail) on it for a good few miles.

 

[MickMoor]

I ran an earlier Sprinter on used, filtered cooking oil in the summer, if you get it from an Indian restaurant it is interesting observing pedestrians! Then we made our own diesel for winter and a more modern Sprinter, but it is a faff; mucky and labour intensive, so we stopped and bought normal stuff.

 

[Drillman]

We used to run an old discovery on a 50/50 Rape oil/diesel mix. And more than 50% oil and it wouldn’t start without a tow when it was cold.

 

[renewablejohn]

how dangerous is syngas ?

In a gasifier its reasonably safe as your using it at the same rate that your producing it. Only becomes more dangerous when you start compressing it than the danger is like any bottle gas.

 

[Happy hillbily]

I think my mates Daihatsu would run 100% rape oil in summer, but in winter, he would put 9 litres of oil and add 1 litre of petrol, dont think he had any problems running it in clold weather

 

[Still Farming]

Vegetable Oil Diesel Forum

Nice reading for you.

 

[Bloders]

Vegetable Oil Diesel Forum

Nice reading for you.

been a member since the early days.
I was one of the first to be registered as a fuel produce in Wales, back in the day when you had to be registered to use any "bio" fuel probably going back about 15 years now

 

[Still Farming]

been a member since the early days.
I was one of the first to be registered as a fuel produce in Wales, back in the day when you had to be registered to use any "bio" fuel probably going back about 15 years now

Over the 2500ltrs a year then?

 

[Veryfruity]

I ran on vegetable oil for several years, I mixed it with diesel at 50% in winter and 75% oil in summer, the only problem was the constant whiff of frying made me hungry