Can i run my diesel car on cooking oil?

Question

Can i run my diesel car on cooking oil?

Answer 1

yes

Answer 2

yes. sunflower oil is particularly good but you absolutly MUST have some diesel in the tank.. about 60% oil 40% diesel. too much oil and you will find your car exceptionally hard to start. and possibly split seals over time but i have not found this a problem.

Answer 3

you will need to combine castor oil for the sake of your seal or replace them all with copper.it also requires a bigger particulate filter and depending on where you live an tank warmer as well.Oh you cant forget the secondary oil and water separator.

Answer 4

S>V>O or straight vegetable oil is what you're referring to using and is a popular "simlple fuel" myth about biodiesel. Biodiesel is similar to S.V.O. as it uses oil along with measured amount of alcohol and lye, heated, let settle, strained, and washed before use. With cooking oil, like McDonalds fryer oil, theres an even more complicated procedure thats needed to ready the oil for fuel usage. the benefits are well worth it thoug. when properly made, biodeisel is like 100 times more lubricating, so your engine will run smoother. 1% of biodiesel in your gas tank increases lubricity in your engine by about 65%, but theres so many more pros that its just too much to write. and i just spent 3 months researching biodiesel to write a research paper about it so believe me when i double checked all of my facts. go to www.biodiesel.org  its got everything you need toknow about biodiesel including fueling stations that have it on pump!!!!!!

Answer 5

I'd reccomend running your car on dry pavement.  Cooking oil tends to be slippery.

Answer 6

It has to be filtered, but over the long run your seals and gaskets will become dry and leak because the cooking oil is not as lubricating as the diesel and will combust at a higher temperature.

But other things will have to be kept in mind as well.  The source I've listed will help you on your way.

Answer 7

graham

I currently run Bio Fuel (straight vegetable) in a 1999 Dodge 3500 truck. But all Cummins engines were modified from the factory to run on BioD since around 1992 without any modification.

Biofuel is recognized by both the US Environmental Protection Agency and Department of Energy as an alternative fuel, and qualifies for mandated programs under the Clean Air Act Amendments and the Environmental Protection Act of 1992 (EPAct).

USDA Clears Air with Biofuel: Buses and other diesel-burning vehicles run cleaner if they mix biofuel with regular diesel fuel, said the US Department of Agriculture at a biofuel fuel seminar at a USDA research center.

Conversely most major automotive manufacturers (Chrysler, Ford, and General Motors, etc) recommend the use of bio fuels, and nearly every car manufacturer in the world approves ethanol blends in their warranty coverage.

In fact your probably even driving an ethanol car and didn't even know it.

The trick is finding fuel.

I've been producing biofuel for about 3 years now, it's not extremely difficult. Basically you need general household ingredients, a processor (or still for ethanol) and some used oil. Blend it, let separate, screen and use. I complied a guide a while back to help walk you threw the process step by step, just email me or check out..

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• 1 liter of new vegetable oil, whatever the supermarket sells as cooking oil

• 200 ml of methanol, 99+% pure

• lye catalyst -- either potassium hydroxide (KOH) or sodium hydroxide (NaOH)

• blender or mini-processor

• scales accurate to 0.1 grams, preferably less -- 0.01 grams is best

• measuring beakers for methanol and oil

• half-liter translucent white HDPE (#2 plastic) container with bung and s***w-on cap

• 2 funnels to fit the HDPE container

• 2-litre PET bottle (water or soft-drinks bottle) for settling

• two 2-litre PET bottles for washing

• duct tape

• thermometer

Use the "Methoxide the easy way" method -- it's also the safe way. Here's how to do it.

Measure out 200 ml of methanol and pour it into the half-liter HDPE container via the funnel. Methanol also absorbs water from the atmosphere so do it quickly and replace the lid of the methanol container tightly. Don't be too frightened of methanol, if you're working at ordinary room temperature and you keep it at arm's length you won't be exposed to dangerous fumes.

Carefully add the lye to the HDPE container via the second funnel. Replace the bung and the s***w on the cap tightly.

Shake the container a few times -- swirl it round rather than shaking it up and down. The mixture gets hot from the reaction. If you swirl it thoroughly for a minute or so five or six times over a period of time the lye will completely dissolve in the methanol, forming sodium methoxide or potassium methoxide. As soon as the liquid is clear with no undissolved particles you can begin the process.

The more you swirl the container the faster the lye will dissolve. With NaOH it can take from overnight to a few hours to as little as half-an-hour with lots of swirling (but don't be impatient, wait for ALL the lye to dissolve). Mixing KOH is much faster, it dissolves in the methanol more easily than NaOH and can be ready for use in 10 minutes.

Using a blender. Use a spare blender you don't need or get a cheap secondhand one -- cheap because it might not last very long, but it will get you going until you build something better.

Check that the blender seals are in good order. Make sure all parts of the blender are clean and dry and that the blender components are tightly fitted.

Pre-heat the oil to 55 deg C (130 deg F) and pour it into the blender.

With the blender still switched off, carefully pour the prepared methoxide from the HDPE container into the oil.

Secure the blender lid tightly and switch on. Lower speeds should be enough. Blend for at least 20 minutes.

Using a mini-processor. Follow the instructions below and improvise where necessary -- there are many ways of building a processor like this.

Proceed with processing as above, maintain temperature at 55 deg C (130 deg F), process for one hour.

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Answer 8

I don't think so, or the gas would be cheaper

Answer 9

Yes we do this but you have to registered with customs and excise, you have to send a few quid a month think its around 7 GBP.

Answer 10

piece of cake. beware of probs with seals etc but start using a 10% mix then increase the amount. no more than 90% in summer and no more than 30% in winter unless you live someplace real cold.then your into making separate tanks etc. it more than possible!

check this other answer.http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/ind...

Answer 11

Rudolph Diesel invented the diesel engine,and it ran on pure peanut oil. So I say totally possible. But regular diesel fuel is loaded with contaminants that make deposits in the fuel line and injectors,and the pure oil tends to knock them loose,and clog things up.  So it might take a bit of hassle.

Answer 12

yes... but you have to make sure it doesn't need to be converted... and then you need to filter the oil before you use it.

Answer 13

Yes and no.  Cooking oils from vegetable sources are in the form of triglycerides which have three hydrocarbon chains (CH2)n where n is usually in the range of 12-18 attached to a glycerin backbone.  Biodiesel is made with a transesterification   process which, in the presence of an alkaline or acid catalyst,  essentially attaches an alcohol (typically methanol or ethanol) to the end of each hydrocarbon chain and frees glycerin and water as  byproducts.  The net result is that the molecular weight of the fuel is reduced.  This is important because the viscosity is correlated with molecular weight and topology, as well as the temperature and specific chemistry.  Diesel from fossil sources contains aromatic (benzene derivatives) that disrupt molecular packing and reduce the viscosity, particularly at low temperatures.  You can burn straight biodiesel in your car, but may experience viscosity problems if you live in a cold climate.  This problem can be remedied by mixing fossil diesel and biodiesel.  You can burn straight (filtered) vegetable oil in a diesel engine provided that the engine is hot and the oil is pre-heated to reduce viscosity.  Some local farmers start their engines with regular diesel and then switch over to straight vegetable oil (which they grow) once the engine has warmed up.   An interesting side note, one of the plant breeders that I deal with is working on reducing the molecular weight of the vegetable oil so that it can be used directly without the transesterification process.