Vehicle & Technical > Range Rover
Running on cooking oil
waveydavey:
--- Quote from: crazymac on March 18, 2008, 20:58:27 ---
--- Quote from: Range Rover Ron on March 18, 2008, 18:56:14 ---
I've never been a fan of using cooking oil,
if the engine was supposed to run on cooking oil it would have been designed to do so!
I'm happy to run my 300 Tdi on what it was designed for.
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It was! Rudolf Diesel designed what is now known as the Diesel engine to run on Peanut oil!!
It was the petrochemical companies that got us onto heavy oil!
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True - sort of.
The principle of the engine was designed to run on pretty well anything, including coal dust but specific engines are made to run on a particular grade of fuel
Range Rover Blues:
Rudolph's first engine ran on coal dust, then onto peanut oil. Can't remember quite when the oil boys mucled in on the act :-k
waveydavey:
--- Quote from: Range Rover Blues on March 19, 2008, 01:58:48 ---Rudolph's first engine ran on coal dust, then onto peanut oil. Can't remember quite when the oil boys mucled in on the act :-k
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Not 100% sure on this but I think it was because around that time they had found all this black stuff but didn't really have a market as everybody was burning coal or wanted it refined to petrol. The compression ignition engine meant they could get rid of the stuff they didn't really want!
Range Rover Blues:
Yes probably a case of finding a market for an otherwsie unwanted prodcut, like LPG. Deisel also doesn't burn too well in theopen so it was little use for conventionaly heating.
I understand if you mix it with amonium nitrate it'e highly explosive :-k, but unless yiou heat it or atomise it it doesn't burn easily.
waveydavey:
Bang on - that is why the oil industry is so rich; they generated markets for everything and sell 100% so no waste to pay to get rid of and money for everything they bring in.
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