It is obviously vehicle dependent, but I haven't seen more than 15% difference between the 1.6IDI's I had/have vs the ALH I have.
Yeah i did some rough math a while ago and determined that if i were a small business owner with a number of diesel vehicles rolling all day it would make some sense for me to have a small biodiesel operation. But otherwise the numbers just don't add up. about watermeth, it really depends on how much you are injecting and how much time you spend with the pedal to the metal. typically it's used only under boost, and it's best if it doesn't come on too early in the boost ramp-up or if you use a progressive controller. You could go through a couple gallons during a day at the track. or over a few weeks worth of daily driving.
Gizmo. I think the PO had that car set up for WVO. Given that the setup you described came with heaters and pumps and such. Bio-D is derived from oil like the WVO. And as Tyler says is it adding couple of chemicals in a mixer to crack the glycerin away from the diesel part you desire. Bio-D can be thicker than regular diesel and is really fat compared to ULSD. But it doesn't need heat in the same way that WVO does. I have a jar of WVO on the back steps to allow it to settle out and even at 40 degrees it is very slow to move up the jar sides. I will need to warm it up to filter it out.
Ahhh yes, define WASTE. You want to dispose of it so it is waste. I want to drive the next 45 miles on that gallon of oil, so to me it is fuel. I didn't want to get into the oil business or spend what little free time I had on the weekends to be brewing up some Bio-D or filtering some WVO. I found a guy in the Vancouver area that did have a small number of resturants that would provide him with good quality oil and he did the filtering, dewatering and centrifuge work on it. Then he sold it to a select bunch of us for 2 bucks a gallon. Someone elses waste was his two dollars. Waste not, Want not. How often did I hear that as a kid. The business of recycling that fryer oil was good for those that use oil and good for those that process it. It turned the product around from a pay to get rid of to pay me to take it affair.
I think we will have a battle on our hands trying to change the convention from Waste Vegetable Oil to Used Vegetable Oil. UVO? Some will likely confuse it with UFO and then we will really have a battle on our hands.Your neighbors might like the beer chemistry gig.
I don't know what the stuff was actually. All I know is it gunked up everything and smelled a bit like rancid french fries.The pump was just another small in-line fuel pump, just like what I'm running my diesel through. The fuel line was double walled and the outer area was for the engine coolant to keep it warm. Fancy stuff (was).Giles said it took him many hours to clean the internals of the IP. He almost called me and said it wasn't repairable.My apologies to the OP for the side track