Fuel heating for vegetable oil

Vegetable oil has only with 80 degrees the qualities of diesel with regard to viscosity and ignition willingness. The vegetable oil has to be warmed up for the cold start electrically.

Later when the engine operating temperature is reached, the fuel is heated by the coolant in a plate heat exchanger.

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Treibstoffheizung für Pflanzenölbetrieb

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Vegetable oil
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Tractor tank - 275 liters for one working day

More than 20 liters per hour needs this tractor. Field work is heavy and requires as so much energy like a middle class car needs at 180 km/h.

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Heat exchanger coolant to vegetable oil

Engine space of a Golf TDI. The heat exchanger brings the vegetable oil on the temperature of the coolant. Only more than 80 degrees vegetable oil has combustion qualities like diesel.

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Vegetable oil instead of diesel as a fuel

With which will we prepare our fields when the crude oil comes to an end? Wolfgang Löser has already thought about it years ago and presents his solution with sunflowers.

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Vegetable oil instead of diesel as a fuel

With which will we prepare our fields when the crude oil comes to an end? Wolfgang Löser has already thought about it years ago and presents his solution with sunflowers.

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Wood to the motoring

In emergency times like the oil shortage in the 2nd world war already once practiced: Motoring with wood. With modern technology it also goes without carried along wooden stove in the car.

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