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Biodiesel Basics and Beyond

A Comprehensive Guide to Production and Use for the Home and Farm
Biodiesel Basics and Beyond    
Format Softcover
Catalogue No. 0-9733233-3-7
Pages 588
Language English only
Price $29.95
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Written by William H. Kemp.
Published by Aztext Press, 2006.

Description:
Using vegetable oils as a fuel for home heating and transportation is a hundred years old: Rudolf Diesel’s original engine was operated on plant oils due to the lack of fossil fuels. In the early 1980s, home brewers discovered they could transform waste restaurant fryer oils into crude biodiesel and use it in automobiles at 100% concentrations at one quarter the cost of petrodiesel. Yet automotive and engine manufacturers insist that late-model vehicles may be damaged when run on high concentrations of biodiesel and may not honour engine warranties where biodiesel fuel has been used.

Biodiesel Basics and Beyond aims to separate fact from fiction and to educate potential home, farm and cooperative manufacturers on the economic production of quality biodiesel from both waste and virgin oil feedstock. Biodiesel (a clean, renewable diesel-like fuel that minimizes exhaust emissions and air toxins) is one of the most thoroughly tested alternative fuels, with over 100 million kilometres of in-field use. Large-scale biodiesel production capacity in North America now exceeds 1.2 billion litres and continues to grow annually.

Biodiesel Basics and Beyond includes:
  • Detailed processes and lists of equipment required to produce biodiesel that meets North American standards
  • How farmers can use excess oilseed as a feedstock for biodiesel production
  • The use of the co-byproduct glycerin in making soap
  • A guide to numerous reference materials and a list of supplier data.
Author William Kemp is V.P. Engineering of Powerbase Automation Systems Inc. and a consulting electronics/software designer who develops control systems for low environmental impact hydroelectric utilities worldwide. He is a sustainable living and clean energy advocate working in renewable energy heating, energy efficiency, photovoltaic, microhydro and wind electric systems.

Biodiesel Basics and Beyond will provide readers with the data necessary to make informed decisions about sustainable micro-scale biodiesel production.

  
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