[Stoves] Diesel as an excellent fuel for rural households

Crispin Pemberton-Pigott crispinpigott at outlook.com
Sat Apr 18 08:35:16 CDT 2015


I recall that the dream of such a multifuel engine was achieved by ITDG, now Practical Action.

They had an engine that would run at 500 RPM on coal dust. It could also run on various oils. If the oil has long chain molecules they should be shortened (for example by transesterification) to reduce the minimum injection pressure requirement by turning it into 'biodiesel' or bioparaffin.

Here's an island technology: how about grinding old palm leaves into powder and using that in a low speed diesel engine? The engine could be used to grind more fuel and have energy to spare for other tasks like pumping water and lighting and making briquetted stove fuel.

Studies in the '70's showed that about 15%‎ of a farm needs to be planted in sunflower to power the whole farm. In South Africa one can buy a container sized setup that will produce three litres per second of biodiesel from sunflower oil.

Regards
Crispin

It seems a bit ironic but it is like the world has forgotten the Rudolph Diesel originally developed his engine to run on farm
produced plant based oils to promote self sufficiency.  Wikipedia-----Diesel was interested in using coal dust [6] or vegetable oil as fuel, and in fact, his engine was run on peanut oil.[7] Although these fuels were not immediately popular,




From: nari phaltan
Sent: Saturday, April 18, 2015 1:56 PM
To: Discussion of biomass cooking stoves
Subject: [Stoves] Diesel as an excellent fuel for rural households

Dear stovers,

This article proposes fossil fuel based clean combustion technology for rural poor. www.nariphaltan.org/diesel.pdf

Cheers.

Anil

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Nimbkar Agricultural Research Institute (NARI)
Tambmal, Phaltan-Lonand Road
P.O.Box 44
Phaltan-415523, Maharashtra, India
Ph:91-2166-222396/220945/222842
mailto:e-mail%3Anariphaltan at gmail.com
           nariphaltan at nariphaltan.org

http://www.nariphaltan.org



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