Go BottomEPA issues new diesel regulations
 | kwschumm
Join Date: Feb 2003 Posts: 5764 NW Oregon 
 Pics
|
2004-05-10 85672
We knew this was coming.
Link: EPA diesel regs
Reply to |
Quote Reply |
Add PhotoEPA issues new diesel regulations
 | Murf
Join Date: Dec 1999 Posts: 7249 Toronto Area, Ontario, Canada
Pics
|
2004-05-10 85679
Here comes the bio-diesel, I can smell the french fries already.........
Best of luck. ....
Reply to |
Quote Reply |
Add PhotoEPA issues new diesel regulations
 | NHDaveD
Join Date: Dec 2003 Posts: 71 New Hampshire 
Pics
|
2004-05-11 85766
Good article. It sounds like the fuel that they plan to formulate to nearly eliminate sulfur in diesel fuel used in construction, farming and other off-road equipment may be different from that at the local gas station. Is the stuff I buy at the gas station already meeting these or similar standards?
As far as the bio-diesel and the smell of french fries - I sense a conspirecy from the BIG 3, McDonalds, Wendys, & Burger King. With the smell of french fries in the air - free subliminal advertising. ....
Reply to |
Quote Reply |
Add PhotoEPA issues new diesel regulations
 | AV8R
Join Date: Oct 2003 Posts: 882 North Central Wisconsin 
Pics
|
2004-05-15 86119
Check this out... ....
Link: Greasel
Reply to |
Quote Reply |
Add PhotoEPA issues new diesel regulations
 | Chief
Join Date: Jul 2003 Posts: 4297 Southwest MiddleTennessee
Pics
|
2004-05-16 86148
At least "Big Green" is keeping up with the EPA and the latest round of "tree hugging". I am all for clean air and taking care of our environment but it needs to be done using that RARE commodity called COMMON SENSE. ....
Link: DEERE CONFIDENT THAT IT CAN MEET NEW EPA GUIDELINES
Reply to |
Quote Reply |
Add PhotoEPA issues new diesel regulations
 | wigglybridge
Join Date: Jul 2003 Posts: 82 Vermont
Pics
|
2004-05-16 86176
If you haven't tried biodiesel, maybe you shouldn 't shoot from the hip, folks.
It burns better, it smells a heckuva lot better, and your odds of dying an excruciating death from the big C are much lower. Diesel smoke is one of the worst things you can possibly breathe, and 20% biodiesel (commercially almost all of it is made from soy, not french fry grease) generates less than HALF the fine particulates that kill you.
We're lucky here in SE Vermont to have a station selling it right nearby, and it works GREAT. It IS "common sense".
Bob (tree hugger and former cancer researcher) ....
Reply to |
Quote Reply |
Add PhotoEPA issues new diesel regulations
 | DRankin
Join Date: Jan 2000 Posts: 5116 Northern Nevada
Pics
|
2004-05-16 86182
Ok. That does it.
I not parking the tractor or the RTV in any enclosed spaces ever again.
And after hearing some stuff on the radio last week, if I do take up welding it will be outdoors and only when the wind is blowing. ....
Reply to |
Quote Reply |
Add PhotoEPA issues new diesel regulations
 | cerberus
Join Date: Jul 2003 Posts: 38 Westsunbury Pa
|
2004-05-17 86218
Wiggly . Not A tree hugger by any stretch . But, How does the bio Diesel hold up in the winter ? Does it "wax " up ?
It's very limited as far as being available here . I'd like to try it , just to see how it performs . John
....
Reply to |
Quote Reply |
Add PhotoEPA issues new diesel regulations
| Chief
Join Date: Jul 2003 Posts: 4297 Southwest MiddleTennessee
Pics
|
2004-05-17 86236
I am a prime proponent FOR biodiesel. The biggest obstacle blocking it is congress and the oil companies. It does burn much cleaner and has a much higher cetane rating, especially bio-diesel made from rapeseed oil also known as RME or rapeseed methyl ester. It can be made for about the same current price of petroleum diesel. ....
Reply to |
Quote Reply |
Add PhotoEPA issues new diesel regulations
| Chief
Join Date: Jul 2003 Posts: 4297 Southwest MiddleTennessee
Pics
|
2004-05-17 86238
Biodiesel IS one of those common sense measures that would help make a cleaner environment while as the same time putting our farmers back to work and has the potential to increase our domestic GDP by about 50% or more from the dollars that stay here in America. ....
Reply to |
Quote Reply |
Add PhotoEPA issues new diesel regulations
| Murf
Join Date: Dec 1999 Posts: 7249 Toronto Area, Ontario, Canada
Pics
|
2004-05-18 86283
My comment about the french-fries was not meant as a joke, I was being serious about it.
Let me explain. My firm is part of a test group. The company that supplies our solvents, and has the contract to haul away our waste oil, has also diversified into other 'wet waste' products. Among that is restaurant waste, food scraps and WASTE OIL.
The cheapest way to dispose of it is to burn it in diesel engines since health regulations dicvtate it can never go back into food products. They filter it, blend it and repackage it, then it gets blended into our 'Dino Diesel' at a rate of between 10% & 30% WVO (Waste Vegetable Oil). Careful measurements are made as to performance and so on but so far the results are VERY promising.
One interesting note to all of this is that lab. tests done show that even as little as 5% WVO dramatically increases the lubricity of the fuel in the pump and injectors, something which to-date had been provided by the sulphur in Dino Diesel.
HOWEVER, there is one drawback. No matter how carefully they filter that oil, it still smells like french-fries.
Best of luck. ....
Reply to |
Quote Reply |
Add PhotoEPA issues new diesel regulations
| kubotaguy
Join Date: Nov 2003 Posts: 360 Shepherdstown, WV
|
2004-05-18 86306
Back in the college days, I used to be an Assistant manager at McD's and it is amazing they can make anything out of the nasty grease mess they ship out. It is not only the oil from the french fryers, fish vats, or chicken vats but the grease from the grills as well. In the morning it is very common to have a lot of eggs, sausage, and bacon mixed in as well. Let it set out in the hot sun in a 55 gallon drum for a week or two and it no where near resembles french fries. I know we used through about 100 to 150 gallon of vegetable oil a week. Maybe when they strain it out and refine it, it smells like fries again!!!!! ....
Reply to |
Quote Reply |
Add Photo
Go Top
Share This