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IAW
11-04-2009, 07:33 AM
Does any one on this forum have any info on using bio-diesel for your low pressure steam boiler?

Just curious if it can be done and how to do it.

KWLSD
11-05-2009, 02:24 AM
If it will run on 'ordinary' diesel, it will run on bio-diesel.

Indeed with the latter you may find improvements in burn and cleanliness, as bio-diesel tends to be a cleaner product from the manufacturing process.

Whereas ordinary diesel can carry-over some heavier fractions, etc. from the original feedstock (ie. crude), bio-diesel - certainly in the GTL methods of manufacture - is 'assembled' from smaller components.

The heavy impurities have a much poorer burn which the latter doesn't suffer.