Caloric value of Bio-diesel?? Anyone???

Mark Hunt

customer wants to run an oil fired boiler on Bio-diesel fuel to heat a SMALL area that contains his Bio-diesel equipment as well as using it to cook the fuel.

Now I have heard of folks cutting their #2 with BD, but I have no info on how BD will perform in this application.

Anyone out there have info?

Mark h

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just me

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Horsepower – as defined by James Watt the British inventor and engineer) (1736 to 1819) who originally coined the term horsepower. He is most famous for his work on improving the performance of steam engines.Horse Power

The story goes that Watt was working with ponies lifting coal at a coal mine, and he wanted a way to describe the power available from one of these animals. He found that, on average, a mine pony could do 22,000 foot-pounds of work in a minute. He then increased that number by 50 percent and pegged the measurement of horsepower at 33,000 foot-pounds of work in one minute. It is that arbitrary unit of measure that has become the de facto standard and now appears on your car, your lawn mower, your chain saw, and even in some cases your vacuum cleaner!

What horsepower means is this: In Watt's judgment, one horse can do 33,000 foot-pounds of work every minute. So, imagine a horse raising coal out of a coal mine as shown above. A horse exerting 1 horsepower can raise 330 pounds of coal 100 feet in a minute, or 33 pounds of coal 1,000 feet in one minute, or 1,000 pounds 33 feet in one minute, and so on. You can make up whatever combination of feet and pounds you like. As long as the product is 33,000 foot-pounds in one minute, you have a horsepower.

You can probably imagine that you would not want to load 33,000 pounds of coal in the bucket and ask the horse to move it 1 foot in a minute because the horse couldn't budge that big a load. You can probably also imagine that you would not want to put 1 pound of coal in the bucket and ask the horse to run 33,000 feet in one minute, since that translates into about 375 miles per hour and horses can't run that fast.

Horsepower can be converted into other units as well. For example:

* 1 horsepower is equivalent to 746 watts. So if you took a 1-horsepower horse and put it on a treadmill, it could operate a generator producing a continuous 746 watts.
* 1 horsepower over the course of an hour is equivalent to 2,545 BTU (British thermal units). If you took that 746 watts and ran it through an electric heater for an hour, it would produce 2,545 BTU (where a BTU is the amount of energy needed to raise the temperature of 1 pound of water 1 degree F).
* One BTU is equal to 1,055 joules, or 252 gram-calories or 0.252 food Calories. Presumably, a horse producing 1 horsepower would burn 641 Calories in one hour if it were 100-percent efficient.

just me

Sorry, Go here instead!

I accidently posted the wrong response, but, if you go to this website, I'm sure it will be of some help. http://www.distributiondrive.com/FAQ.html#12. Precautions

Ron Schroeder_2

20% biodiesel/80% petro-diesel should be no problem. Higher concentrations of biodiesel may cause premature wear of the pump shaft seal.

Biodiesel has about 10-15% less BTU/Gal. than regular fuel oil.

Ron

Ron Schroeder_2

20% biodiesel/80% petro-diesel should be no problem. Higher concentrations of biodiesel may cause premature wear of the pump shaft seal.

Biodiesel has about 10-15% less BTU/Gal. than regular fuel oil.

Ron

Mark Hunt

Thanks Ron.


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