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Originally Posted by pgarner  new modern common rail cant run with chip fat as it will just bugger the injectors however i think you can can get systems that can make 10 gallons a day of a version of bio diesel which can run without damage ???? not 100% sure. but im sure that it requires ether methanol or ethanol to thin it down.
your allowed to make a certain amount before HM customs want a slice ( i think its around 1500 ltrs a year ) |
I know, you can't operate a common rail system on cooking oil. new/used, filtered or not as it will wreck the injectors and pumps.
THe process to which you refer is transesterification, and it does render filtered cooking oil down to something that will operate in high pressure engines.
Sadly, you can't use it in engines that have Euro IV compliant particle filters as the fuel borne catalyst is incompatible with such fuels.
Which rules mine out straight away.
So, it's back to peeling spuds then!!!
Cheers,
P.