DF Cast: Mixing Ethanol and (Bio) Diesel
You can’t burn ethanol in a diesel engine. Nope. Just not done. Like mixing oil and water.
But what if you added more water to the ethanol? And came up with a way to mix the hydrated-ethanol blend with the diesel… or better yet, biodiesel… right at the point of ignition? Ahhh… then you’d have something that National Corn Growers Association chairman and Nebraska corn farmer Bob Dickey calls the CleanFlex Power System… a new venture he has formed with Ron Preston, president of CleanFlex. Together, they hope to get the 60 million diesel engines in the U.S. to burn some ethanol as well.
They don’t have a Web site, yet, but you can contact CleanFlex at 402-480-0346.
In this edition of the Domestic Fuel Cast, listen to Bob and Ron as they discuss how this process works and how it will help renewable fuels meet the next round of emission requirements set to kick in in 2011.
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Daily News—10/16 - Blog - BioDieselNow - Renewable biodiesel fuel
[...] CleanFlex introduces a way of burning ethanol with your biodiesel [...]
Mike Green
Actually you can use ethanol in a diesel engine – it’s being done in Europe, where ethanol-powered diesel buses are on the road by the hundreds, especially in Sweden. Made by Scania, these buses run on 95% ethanol plus an additive that makes the diesel engine work on ethanol, with minor modifications. Several diesel engine manufacturers in Brazil are on the verge of introducing engines that use similar technology – diesel engines that will run on ethanol. These manufacturers include MWM and Case/International Harvester, part of the Fiat Group. These will be new, but the Swedish bus running on ethanol is about 7 years old… One of those Swedish buses is currently being tested in the streets of São Paulo, Brazil, and city officials are considering adopting it. Especially when they heard that for every one of those buses that replaces a regular diesel bus, the savings in greenhouse gas causing emissions is the equivalent of removing 20 gasoline-powered cars from the streets…
Cheers,
MikeGreen
Daily News—10/16
[...] CleanFlex introduces a way of burning ethanol with your biodiesel [...]
CleanFlex Power System finds a way to burn ethanol in diesel engines
[...] Called CleanFlex Power System, the unusual process was developed as a way to burn more ethanol in the U.S. Currently, CleanFlex is being tested in a stationary John Deere power system, and Dickey says it’s working well. In addition to the diesel fuel (which could also be biodiesel), the ethanol used in CleanFlex is cut to 60 percent with water (called EM60). You can hear Dickey talk about the system over at Domestic Fuel. [...]
Yanto
See, If you want to know something just ask us in Europe, you don’t have to reinvent the wheel.
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