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Ethanol/SB oil

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msb

08-13-2005 15:43:14




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Anyone considering brewing up their own fuel on the farm?Maybe there is a really good side to having restored all of these old gas burner tractors?Will an ATF permit be a part of the process? I just read where ethanol can be produced for $.90 a gallon.Don't know if that is true or not.

How about making/crushing your own soybean oil for diesel tractors? How many gallons of oil is there in a bushel of beans?How much does a gallon of bean oil cost to produce today? Which of the two options would be more feasable to do today?I am thinking we have in no way seen the top in fuel prices.Nor do I think we will have unlimited access to supplies in the near future.

Lets not be talked out of this by the big business guys once again.

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kyhayman

08-13-2005 20:08:33




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 Re: Ethanol/SB oil in reply to msb, 08-13-2005 15:43:14  
As far as costs go, recycling used vegetable oil from restraunts seems even more economical.



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mike brown

08-13-2005 18:12:25




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 Re: Ethanol/SB oil in reply to msb, 08-13-2005 15:43:14  
There is a lot of info on the net about biodiesel. I think bean are about 20% oil. The hard part is getting it out of the beans. Crushing alone will leave a lot of oil still in the meal. The comercial processors use hexane to dissolve the oil then evaperate off and recapture the hexane for reuse leaving behind the oil. Then you either have to process the oil into biodiesel by removing the glycerin or convert your diesel engines to use straight veg oil. After all this you still have soybean meal you can sell.

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edchainsaw

08-13-2005 22:16:34




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 Re: Ethanol/SB oil in reply to mike brown, 08-13-2005 18:12:25  
we here have been working on a soydiesel plant for 5yrs..

from what we are told there is 1 gal of oil/ 1bu

and it doesnt have to use hexane... but thats prefered...



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