Biodiesel

[Mikes91]

Guys,

Our new (to us) home in South Carolina will have approximately 7 acres of pasture land. We are considering growing hay for the horses on part of that, but I'm also thinking about starting a biodiesel operation there.

What do I need to do this? Any idea how much soybean land is needed for a smallscale/local biodiesel operation? What about equipment?



Thanks,

Mike

 

[Diezel_Cowboy]

Guys,

Our new (to us) home in South Carolina will have approximately 7 acres of pasture land. We are considering growing hay for the horses on part of that, but I'm also thinking about starting a biodiesel operation there.

What do I need to do this? Any idea how much soybean land is needed for a smallscale/local biodiesel operation? What about equipment?



Thanks,

Mike

Mike,
If you are planning on selling the fuel you would need to have ways of testing it to make sure it is clean and meets specifications.
As far as growing soybeans on 7 acres that wont get you very far either.
If you just wanted to set up a small building to brew some homemade biodiesel then that would be much easier to do.

 

[Mikes91]

Mike,
If you are planning on selling the fuel you would need to have ways of testing it to make sure it is clean and meets specifications.
As far as growing soybeans on 7 acres that wont get you very far either.
If you just wanted to set up a small building to brew some homemade biodiesel then that would be much easier to do.

Thank you... Sounds like I'll just do my own homebrew.

Can't beat that, though. One way to offset the ridiculous fuel prices. I expect fuel to be nearly $3 a gallon on average... and we only get reimbursed $0.15 per mile. I haven't done the math, but suspect that won't even cover my fuel costs at 12-13mpg on average to SC from CA.

 

[DeepRoots]

in the warm months (march-nov here in south ga) I just run 50-50% WVO in the rear tank.
Startup and shut off on D in the front tank, no problems 100's of gallons of wvo.

easy for me, on my farm the only other person that lives here owns a hamburger joint.... 20gallons clean/waterfree WVO delivered to the door weekly.

drew

 

[dbarilow]

http://www.localb100.com/

 

[Mikes91]

Good linky... thank you.

 

[TLBREWER]

Good linky... thank you.

Mike

I'm very seriously considering getting one of these this summer. I believe Diesel Power did a little blurb on this company in the last issue. I remember reading about them a while back (6 months) and now they're selling 450 units a month according to the article!

www.biodieselsolutions.com/home/home.asp

Tom

 

[DeepRoots]

just make sure (i mean delivered) you can get some methanol before you invest in any biod equip. I found it exceedingly hard in my location to get methanol for a reasonable price.