dieselcarpenter

What is the best oil stock for home-brew B-100 hands down? (lets say there was an never ending supply of the best variety, what would it be?

febrocks

I hear canola oil. I've don't have any experience since most resturante use veggie/peanut/lard. Now this unlimited supply of oil, is this free oil?

infidel

Canola (rapeseed) or mustard are about equal.

dieselcarpenter

Its a hypothetical supply. Just adding to the question of what would be the best choice. If it were "free" would that make it the best choice? what if all varieties were "free"?

febrocks

I understand it's a hypothetical question. If it's free canola oil verses $.10 a gallon canola oil. It's just a thought.

Eugene

Need95-00CTD

A lot of Chinese/oriental restaurants use sesame oil...and they usually have to pay to have it hauled away. If you can hook up with 2 of them I guarantee you'll have enough oil to make all the B-100 you want. Its about the same as canola as far as viscosity, so your gel points should be similar. Also, sunflower/safflower oil is very good. I can't wait until they start seriously producing algae oil...yea, pond scum is great for making Bio, plus an acre can produce possibly 10,000 gallons per year of oil, compared to about 50 for canola, or 30 for soy.

dieselcarpenter

What are the production costs on that? If they are anything like corn Ethanol I don't see it being vary viable. It has to produce more energy than it costs to make in my book.

Need95-00CTD

You mean on algae? The production costs are extremely low per gallon of oil. Keep in mind you don't need tractors, combines, storage bins, and so on...plus your land investment to make say 100,000 gallons of oil per year is a fraction of what it would be for Rapeseed or Soy. Also, after you press soy or anything like it, you still have an extremely high quality animal feed. With ethanol you have...nothing of value to speak of, besides the alcohol, and you have taken away from both animals and our own food source. Bio doesn't have similar problems, plus we use veg oil for cooking anyways, and we always will, no we can blend that into our virgin oil to produce a motor fuel, instead of dumping or burning it. Keep in mind most pharmaceuticals and cosmetic companies will only use virgin oil, so they won't take any waste...well now we have something to do with it thats positive.

infidel

Not even close to true.
Distillers grains and corn gluten are byproducts of ethanol production that are highly nutritious and in demand. A large factor in locating an ethanol plant as well as BD is the proximity to a feedlot for the leftover meal.

RowJ

How does peanut oil compare to Soy or Rapeseed?
Just curious because I have read peanut oil was Rudolf Diesels oil of choice when he invented the engine.
Maybe that was for crop convenience??

RJ

kd460

It's just as good as any of the other oils but has a high gel point. Makes good bio, just not for winter. KD