Research

There are various views of Diesel Engine Vegetable Oil (VO) fuel viability. VOFITA feels best sharing all viewpoints as we work towards a universal VO fuel standard.

Waste Vegetable Oil As an Alternative Fuel for Diesel Vehicles - U.S. Air Force Captain Gaber's Thesis on the efficiency and applicability of vegetable oil as a viable alternative Military base fuel.

Straight Vegetable Oil as a Diesel Fuel? - U.S. Department of Energy's report on VO fuel; bringing up questions VOFITA addresses with our Universal VO Fuel Standards.

Presentation for Shanghai International Symposium on I.C. Engine 2003 - Guenter Elsbett & Michael Bialkowsky's detailed description of perceived problems, solutions, and possibilities of VO fuel, including a journey into the Elsbett SVO (Straight Vegetable Oil) Engine and currently used VO fuels.

Renewable Oil Fuels and Diesel Engines as Components of Sustainable System Design - Masters' Thesis written by Edward Beggs of PlantDrive; in part exploring vegetable oil fuels' farm applicability.

Vegetable oils as fuels in Diesel engine. Engine performance and emissions Sapienza Universita di Roma's Vegetable Oil Fuel Review during the 69th Conference of the Italian Thermal Machines Engineering Association

Vegburner UK Oils Info - Excellent primer on details of various plant oils, including term references.

National Vegoil Board VW Test - as reported in the Autoblog January 30th 2007 edition: PlantDrive, Albuquerque Alternative Energies, and VO Control Systems achieved across-the-board emissions reductions for VO fuel.

Pure Plant Oil: Clean Engine Fuel Today & Tomorrow - the benefits of VO fuel from a holistic perspective encompassing overall impact from farms to food supply to fuel; as researched by the Denmark-based Folkecenter for Renewable Energy.

WVO as Biofuel - Statement on viability of VO fuel by Oilgae, the authority on Algae Oil.

Rapeseed Oil: The Alternative Fuel for Today and Tomorrow - Joint project by John Deere and The 2nd VegOil Project, a multi-party EU working group, with the aim of VO fuel demonstration in John Deere equipment, testing its efficiency and emissions, and developing a sustainable VO fuel product.

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