electric HE
hi people have been looking for a electric HE I drive a 96 duel cab toyota hilux running on B100 however looking at prepping myself for winter short trips are often at 4am it gets very cold average around -3 to +5. came across one off sure at vow2.co.uk if anyone has heard of these or have…
have been looking for a electric HE
I drive a 96 duel cab toyota hilux running on B100
however looking at prepping myself for winter short trips are often at 4am it gets very cold average around -3 to +5.
came across one off sure at vow2.co.uk if anyone has heard of these or have fitted them please let me know, as iam unsure to which 1 or 2 i need.
currently i have no heating being summer not required:)
I know that i have a flow of no more than 20L p/h. Do i put a small one before and after the filter or should i get the bigger one not sure, as i don’t know there flow rate.
Or the other alternative would be an Aussie product if anyone knows of one.
thanks coy
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Bacteria can make branched longer chain alcohols
(automatically updated/inserted from The Big Biofuels Blog) Nature reports that researchers have genetically modified bacteria (http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v451/n7174/full/nature06450.html) to produce waste products that are high in branched long-chain alcohols. These have higher…
Nature reports that researchers have genetically modified bacteria to produce waste products that are high in branched long-chain alcohols. These have higher octane numbers than conventional ethanol and find it harder to absorb water than shorter chain alcohols. The work was done by Professor James C. Liao, UCLA Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. His team modified e coli bacteria to produce The research team modified key pathways in E. coli to produce several higher-chain alcohols from glucose, a renewable carbon source, including isobutanol, 1-butanol, 2-methyl-1-butanol, 3-methyl-1-butanol and 2-phenylethanol.
“These alcohols are typically trace byproducts in fermentation,” Liao said. “To modify an organism to produce these compounds usually results in toxicity in the cell. We bypassed this difficulty by leveraging the native metabolic networks in E. coli but altered its intracellular chemistry using genetic engineering to produce these alcohols.”
The last point is made by proponents of butanol as an alternative fuel source, and is worth making given the shocking state of much of the storage facilities at gas stations in the US. As ever questions remain about rates and scalability, but it is inteteresting.
Hattip to Green Fuel
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Titration
Hi all , just started doing titrations using phenolthalene, I get a reading of 2.8 plus the base number of 7 acording to the method im following , after that it says if you are using 90% KOH (which i am ) that you should adjust it by 10% to make it 100% , But if you have already done…
just started doing titrations using phenolthalene, I get a reading of 2.8 plus the base number of 7 acording to the method im following , after that it says if you are using 90% KOH (which i am ) that you should adjust it by 10% to make it 100% , But if you have already done the titration with the 90% KOH isnt that the amount of that KOH needed to treat that oil . any help appreciated .
regards Mal
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Hilux runs on veg but not on diesel.
My son bought a 1990 Hilux Surf with 2.4 turbo diesel engine. We found that the cylinder head, turbo and IP all needed replacing so we fitted a second hand 2.8 (non-turbo) engine instead. Once we had that sorted I did the conversion for him, including a Walbro pusher pump. We found that the pusher…
This afternoon we managed to get it started on diesel by pumping the priming plunger on the diesel filter. We had to keep pumping to keep it running, stop pumping and the engine stopped. Afterwards there was a large puddle of diesel under the car. After about 5 mins we switched to veg and I pumped that primer for a while then stopped pumping for a while and let it idle. All was well except for a slight drip. Then he drove it 100 km with me following - no trouble, ran perfectly. IP comes off tomorrow and goes to a pump specialist.
I am thinking that the leak (front seal??) is so bad on the low viscosity diesel the the integral lift pump can’t keep up supply pressure to the IP. It is losing too much to the leak but constantly pumping the priming plunger was compensating. Switching to veg (higher viscosity) resulted in a lesser loss and more fuel getting to the pumping plunger and thus injectors.
So here is an example of an IP kept alive by veg.
8,000 km on veg has saved him nearly $2,000 and deferred the cost of IP overhaul for several months.
OR
Another example of damage caused by veg.
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Salt loving plants may help biofuels production
(automatically updated/inserted from The Big Biofuels Blog) Researchers at the University of Arizona say that salt loving plants might hold the key to 63bn gallons ethanol from non-crop land, …
Researchers at the University of Arizona say that salt loving plants might hold the key to 63bn gallons ethanol from non-crop land, according to Biofuels Digest, which quoted from Wired.
If this is true then it really is interesting. With one bound (or several faltering steps) we could be free of the reliance on high-quality land which we need for crops globally. Questions around the level of salt tolerance, yield and so on must be answered. But it could be one of those win-wins where it is possible to increases wealth for people who own marginal land. I wonder if there is any chance that such crops could remediate land that has become saline through irrigation.
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fuel lines?…
Hi new to the site…I am interested in svo but thought just running on bio would be a good place to start. My 78 landruiser is tired and blows smoke when starting, should i clean the injectors first? Do the fuel lines need to be changed over?
My 78 landruiser is tired and blows smoke when starting, should i clean the injectors first?
Do the fuel lines need to be changed over?
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Phone Call from the Mechanic
Just thought I’d share this one with ya - maybe it has happened to other people. I put my hilux in yestarday for a cam oil seal. The mechanic rang me up in the afternoon to tell me what he’d done etc etc and when he finished he said: “WHAT THE HELL IS ALL THAT EXTRA STUFF IN YOUR ENGINE???”…
I put my hilux in yestarday for a cam oil seal. The mechanic rang me up in the afternoon to tell me what he’d done etc etc and when he finished he said:
“WHAT THE HELL IS ALL THAT EXTRA STUFF IN YOUR ENGINE???” :eek::eek:
I proceeded to tell the story of collecting waste veggie from the Turkish and Ricardos, 200L drums and filter socks. Dewatering, polymerisation, heat exchangers etc etc
He was highly impressed. 
Funny though - he thought it had something to do with fishing??? :confused:
I have no idea how he came to that conclusion.
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Kenworth and Westport to bring LNG trucks to Australia
(automatically updated/inserted from The Envirofuels Blog) Westport Innovations and PACCAR Australia, the manufacturers of Kenworth trucks, have announced that the companies will develop and commercialise liquefied natural gas (LNG) Kenworth trucks for the Australian market. Kenworth plan to…
Westport Innovations and PACCAR Australia, the manufacturers of Kenworth trucks, have announced that the companies will develop and commercialise liquefied natural gas (LNG) Kenworth trucks for the Australian market. Kenworth plan to begin factory-installed production in mid-2009 beginning with the T908, K108 and T408SAR truck chassis and roll out across additional models into the future. [...]
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Acidulating Soap
Anybody had any experience with converting soap back to oil and fatty acids?
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