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.

275 liters containing about 2,750 kWh of thermal energy. A modern diesel can produce probably 1,100 kWh of mechanical energy. Vehicles like this can only be reasonable operated with high concentrated energy like Diesel or vegetable oil.

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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.

Sunflower oil press
Not only for people, also healthier for the diesel : cold-pressed oil. By temperatures more than 60 degrees would reach phosphorus and wax in the oil which damage a diesel.

Sunflowers oil: Pack the sun into the tank
A farmer needs about 10% of his cultivation surface in order to have enough fuel for his tractor. A ha brings about 1000 liters sunflower oil per year in central Europe.

Press cake from sunflowers
With the cold press the yield is about 10% less than with hot-pressed oil. These 10% of oil remain in the press cake, an especially high-quality animal feed.

Refinery products
After in the oil press the press cake was produced the vegetable oil stores several weeks in an tank. After some weeks are 3 layers of different products.

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.

Context description: vegetable sunflower oil vegetableoil sunfloweroil oils vegetableoils sunfloweroils event events date time 2005

Sunflower oil press
	Not only for people, also healthier for the diesel : cold-pressed oil. By temperatures more than 60 degrees would reach phosphorus and wax in the oil which damage a diesel.

Sunflowers oil: Pack the sun into the tank
	A farmer needs about 10% of his cultivation surface in order to have enough fuel for his tractor. A ha brings about 1000 liters sunflower oil per year in central Europe.

Press cake from sunflowers
	With the cold press the yield is about 10% less than with hot-pressed oil. These 10% of oil remain in the press cake, an especially high-quality animal feed.

Refinery products
	After in the oil press the press cake was produced the vegetable oil stores several weeks in an tank. After some weeks are 3 layers of different products.