Biodiesel Basics and Beyond: A Comprehensive Guide to Production and Use for the Home and Farm

Kemp, William H.

ISBN 10: 0973323337 / ISBN 13: 9780973323337

Edité par Aztext Press, Tamworth Ontarior, Canada, 2006

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588 Pages Indexed. A tight book with no marks or stamps. Interior text pages are near flawless and illustrated throughout. This book aims to separate fact from fiction and to educate potential home, farm, and cooperative manufacturers on the economic production of quality biodiesel from both waste and virgin oil feedstock. The book includes detailed processes and equipment required to produce biodiesel fuel that meets North American standards and how farmers can use excess oilseed as a feedstock for biodiesel production and how the use of the co-byproduct glycerin in the making of soap. There are numerous reference materials and a list of supplier data. This is North America's definitive guide to responsibly producing biodiesel from waste vegetable oil while minimizing your environmental footprint in the process. Contents in 10 Chapters: Introduction, North American Energy Consumption, Technical Background of Diesel/Biodiesel Fuels, Oil Feedstocks, Commercial Biodiesel Production, High Blend Levels of Biodiesel, Debunking the Home Brew Myth, The Small-Scale Solution, Home Heating with Biodiesel, and Glycerin.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Biodiesel Basics and Beyond: A Comprehensive Guide to Production and Use for the Home and Farm
• Éditeur: Aztext Press, Tamworth Ontarior, Canada
• Date de parution: 2006
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0973323337
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780973323337
• Reliure: Trade Paperback
• Édition: First Edition
• État de l'article: Very Good

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Biodiesel, ( a clean, renewable diesel-like fuel that minimizes exhaust emissions and air toxins) is one of the most thoroughly tested alternative fuels, with over 400 million miles of in-field use. Large-scale biodiesel production capacity in North America now exceeds 300 million gallons and continues to grow annually. Simultaneously, there has been a surge in the production of "underground" biodiesel. Home brewers discovered that by collecting waste restaurant fryer oils and performing a chemical transformation process they could manufacture low-cost, crude biodiesel for transportation and home heating. What has followed is a flood of guidebooks and web-based misinformation about the ease of producing poor-quality biofuel while leaving an environmental mess of toxic waste products behind. Biodiesel Basics and Beyond draws on the collective experience of North American and European researchers, with the author making the case for biodiesel use in society. Later chapters detail the step-by-step processes and equipment necessary for micro and small-scale production of biodiesel meeting established quality and byproduct management standards. Every statement or method developed by the author is backed up by independent government or university laboratory verification, ensuring the reader of the accuracy of both the data and processes provided. The 600 page, 6 x 9 inch format book is filled with hundreds of photographs and charts presented in a logically organized format and written for those who are merely curious or are industry experts.