Biodiesel Issues

[ATeam]

From Land Line Magazine, "The National Biodiesel Board has issued what it’s calling a “winter weather advisory,†saying there’s a lot of biodiesel out there that doesn’t meet the industry standards against gelling and clogging."

Full story: http://www.landlinemag.com/todays_news/Daily/2006/Nov06/110606/110906-04.htm

Last winter in Minnesota, a large number of trucks ground to a halt in cold weather as the biodiesel in their tanks gelled up. Minnesota biodiesel producers and advocates were mortified and acted as quick as they could to improve the fuel. By the end of this winter, we will know if they succeeded.

It seems biodiesel advocates nationwide learned some lessons from the Minnesota experience and are doing what they can to get ahead of the issue this winter. The article lists things truck drivers can do to avoid winter biodiesel problems and help bring biodiesel into the mainstream.

 

[Broompilot]

Phil thanks for bringing this to our attention.

The post only tells of the problem but offers no solutions, other than to report it? Am I missing something here?

 

[silverdollar]

Power Service.

 

[tec1959]

Power Service can It be used???

 

[Tennesseahawk]

You would think so since you can add biodeisel to regular fuel and vice versa. Drivers have to be a little pro-active in making sure their tanks don't gel. Even with the winterized fuel, I dump in some anti-gel.

"If I claim to be a wise man, it surely means that I don't know." - Kansas

 

[greg334]

Just a reminder that there are standards already established and used for years over in Europe. I think that many states are trying to write standards.

There also is a problem with the idiots selling the filter/heating systems for WVO.

I understood that some 'bio-diesel' dealers have been mixing their bio-diesel (and regular diesel) with WVO.