Subject: Soy oil as diesel fuel

From: [email-masked] (Ross Wilcoxon (PS))
Date: Mon, 3 Apr 1995 17:25:41 GMT

I was wondering what is the current status of using soybean (or other
vegetable oils) as diesel fuel?  There seemed to be a big push for it
a few years ago.  Is this still going on, or have there been some 
stumbling blocks pop up lately.

ross wilcoxon

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From: [email-masked] (Mark DeWitt)
Date: Mon, 03 Apr 95 17:24:05 GMT

>stumbling blocks pop up lately.

Was the push for a total replacement of diesel fuel with soybean
oil, or was the soybean fuel used as a supplement?  I am curous
about the cetane number of the soy fuel, ie would it ignite
properly.
  I recently did a research project on alternative fuels in diesel
 engines.  While I concentrated on gaseous fuels, I did not come
across any recent work on using liquid bio-fuels in engines.  Most
of the work tends to centre around natural gas or methanol.