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Biodiesel for genset applications

Posted on January 01, 2018

Understanding how biodiesel interacts with today’s diesel engines will maximize a generator set’s performance and reliability.
Authors

Brian Ponstein

Regional Sales Engineer

Dylan Brandt

Application Engineer
While we often think of biofuels as a new innovation, the very first diesel engines were designed to run on them. Rudolf Diesel, known as the father of diesel engines, stated, “In 1900 a small Diesel engine was exhibited by the Otto company which, on the suggestion of the French government, was run on Arachide [nut] oil, and operated so well that very few people were aware of the fact. The motor was built for ordinary oils, and without any modification was run on vegetable oil.”1 He went on to state they tested other oils like vegetable and fish oils with perfect success. 

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