Some of the Benefits of Biodiesel

"All changes that make a difference in the world start with one baby step... Dog river started making fuel in 5 gallon pails..

As we grow, sometimes it takes trouble and a lot of hard work, but its worth it! Dog River has graduated to 40 gallons at a time or batch!

..we are going to take an even bigger step to a much bigger processor in the future.

• Collect waste oil from your local restaurant. Most proprietors are glad to offer their waste cooking oil for the asking.

• Readily available chemical ingredients include lye and methanol.

• Common Sense Safety Precautions - Be familiar with the dangers of caustics and flammable.

• If the fuel is made using potassium hydroxide (KOH) instead of lye, the glycerin byproduct can be used in the correct proportions as a component in some fertilizers.

Safe and Clean

• The Biodiesel is the reddish portion of this picture, and the darker color at the bottom is the glycerin BI-product which also has a use. The fuel in the container is then filtered and can be put in your car, your tractor, a diesel engine powered boat or your oil burner at home.

• Biodiesel has a higher flash point (300F) than its petroleum counterpart (125F).

• Biodiesel is biodegradable.

• Non-toxic. Biodiesel is 10 times less toxic than table salt.

• This fuel is stable and stores for a year or longer.

Works as Heating Fuel

• Use in an oil burning furnace (may require slight modification)

• Can be mixed with petroleum-based heating fuel in any ratio.

• Safer for chimneys. (Less soot.)

50 MPG!

• Any diesel engine can run on biodiesel.

• The usual cold weather precautions are sufficient for biodiesel use.

• Biodiesel can be blended in any ratio with petrodiesel.

• Lubricity. Biodiesel in as little as a 1% concentration in your fuel tank increases engine lubricity by 30% to 65%. Consider the new low-sulfur diesel fuels and their effect on your injector pump. 

• Power is comparable within 5 percent.

• Much cleaner exhaust emissions. Compared to petroleum diesel:

• 100% reduction in SO2 *

• 40% to 60% less soot*

• 10% to 50% less carbon monoxide*

• 10% to 50% less hydrocarbons*

• 97% reduction in phenanthren*

• 56% reduction in benzofloroanthen*

• 71% reduction in benzapyren*

• 13% reduction in aldehydes and aromatic compounds*

• NOx emissions may increase or decrease by 5 to 10%*

• Carbon neutral. Does not contribute to Global Warming.  Tail pipe CO2 output is about the same, but consider the source. No longer are we pumping carbon out of the ground and dumping it into the atmosphere!

• Break the petroleum food chain!

  *from From the Fryer to the Fuel Tank, 2nd edition, Joshua and Kaia Tickell