[Stoves] Vegetable oil or biodiesel?

[Anand Karve]

Dear Crispin,
I think that those oils which have very high viscocity may have to be
converted into biodiesel. An acquaintance of mine makes biodiesel from
animal tallow, because you cannot fill tallow into the fuel tank of a
car.
Yours
A.D.Karve

On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 1:31 AM, Crispin Pemberton-Pigott
<crispinpigott at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Friends
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> Is it environmentally advantageous to use vegetable oil directly as biofuel
> instead of converting it to biodiesel?
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> http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0961953410004836
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> A stove can use either. If it is a biodiesel or bioparaffin (very similar)
> it will burn in a paraffin stove.
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> So far there are not many stoves that can operate on the raw oil. Should
> there be more?
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> Regards
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> Crispin
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Dr. A.D. Karve
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