Run Your Diesel Vehicle on Biofuels: A Do-It-Yourself Manual

Jon Starbuck, Gavin Harper (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

248 Seiten

2009
TAB Books Inc (Verlag)
978-0-07-160043-9 (ISBN)

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This cutting-edge, heavily illustrated guide shows you how to convert your car to run on vegetable oil or biofuel for a much more environmentally-friendly ride.

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CONVERT TO BIODIESEL FOR A MORE ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY RIDE

Run Your Diesel Vehicle on Biofuels has everything you need to make the switch from expensive, environment-damaging carbon fuel to cheap (and, in many cases, free), clean fuel for your vehicle. Practical and decidedly apolitical, this unique guide focuses on technical details, parts, and instructions.Inside, you'll find step-by-step instructions accompanied by helpful illustrations for such projects as building and properly using a homemade biodiesel reactor, which enables you to drive you car on vegetable oil purchased at a fraction of the price of gas or even on second-hand oil obtained from restaurants free of charge. Run Your Diesel Vehicle on Biofuels also includes a list of international parts suppliers and various manufacturers' warranty statuses regarding vehicles converted to biodiesel.

Projects include:

Collecting waste oil
Building a waste-oil processor
Creating biodiesel fuel
Converting your car to professional standards
Constructing heat exchangers

Run Your Diesel Vehicle on Biofuels covers:
• History and functions of the diesel engine • Benefits of biofuel • Where to obtain raw ingredients • Theory of fuel conversion • Existing conversion kits o Blends, emulsions, and thinners • Processing and discarding waste oil • Laws and regulations • Green retail o Health and safety • Limitations of environmental benefits

McGraw-Hill authors represent the leading experts in their fields and are dedicated to improving the lives, careers, and interests of readers worldwide

Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. History of Diesel and the diesel engine
Chapter 3. How does a diesel engine work?
Chapter 4. Collecting waste vegetable oil
Chapter 5. Biodiesel chemistry
Chapter 6. Fuel modification: making biodiesel
Chapter 7. Biodiesel reactors and processors
Chapter 8. Engine modification--running on SVO
Chapter 9. Using WVO in your SVO engine
Chapter 10. Other options and solutions
Chapter 11. Engine conversion or fuel conversion
Chapter 12. Waste streams
Chapter 13. Health and safety
Chapter 14. Biofuel ethics
Chapter 15. Biodiesel and vegetable oil are not just for cars!
Chapter 16. Epilogue
Appendix
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	16.1.2009
Zusatzinfo	0 Illustrations
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	183 x 231 mm
Gewicht	427 g
Themenwelt	Natur / Technik ► Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe ► Auto / Motorrad
Themenwelt	Technik ► Fahrzeugbau / Schiffbau
ISBN-10	0-07-160043-4 / 0071600434
ISBN-13	978-0-07-160043-9 / 9780071600439
Zustand	Neuware