Archive for the ‘Green Fuel’ Category

Ethanol:Kudos to the Fuel Cleanliness.

Wednesday, December 27th, 2006

The Wine (active ingredient Ethyl Alcohol) fuelled the imaginations of many artists and now it has one more role to play, which is awaiting its entrance since the necessity of clean fuel is arising. Alcohol is next name in clean chemical fuel. The Alcohol derivatives like Ethanol, Butanol etc., are in next generation of clean fuels. The physical properties of Alcohol derivatives are much of similar all are volatile, clear and colorless liquids highly inflammable, have high octane number (a property used for grading the quality of Gasoline) and have excellent miscibility with other organic compounds.

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Bio-Diesel: Fuel of Future

Monday, December 25th, 2006

Yes, now we really need a bio fuel. The rising level of sulphur dioxide (SO2) and the carbon mono-oxide (CO) has given the environmentalists an alarm of the environment non-friendly action until we have lived.

The solution to this has occurred in form of using some environment friendly fuel in the vehicles and the BIO DIESEL is one advance crawl in the tracks of solution. What this Bio Diesel is? The liquid fuel obtained from biological materials, which after burning leaves out fumes and chemicals, which are later biodegradable and is similar to diesel in combustion properties.

Bio Diesel is prepared from edible and non-edible oils obtained from Soybean, Rapeseed and other animal fats available. It is a liquid having the color variations from light yellow to dark yellow with slightly light brown tint, lighter than water (density ~0.86 g/cm33). The flash point of 150o C or 300o F makes Bio Diesel practically non-flammable under normal circumstances viscosity as same as of normal diesel, and has a non-toxic nature when not mixed with the start-up materials. (more…)