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To: smolejv@gmx.net who wrote (67716)	9/13/2005 3:28:48 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 74559

DJ, I'm not sure if this posted to you. Here it is: If viscosity is not right, the fuel can be diluted. Viscosity has to be right to ensure good atomisation by injectors. Mixing rapeseed oil into diesel of lower viscosity would get it right. I doubt that additives are the economic way of adjusting rape seed oil viscosity as additives are expensive. I'm not sure what additive you might think of. Rather than fiddle with the fuel, one could, as your son is suggesting, change the injector pump and injectors. But that's making a very big change and creating the need for two streams of vehicle technology as well as two streams of fuel [one for each diesel injector type]. I think it would be easier to change the fuel, using rapeseed oil or others, so that existing injectors and engines work well. But I wouldn't invest in rapeseed oil as fuel. Maybe there are some niche markets which might be economic, such as a farming district, which grows rapeseed, and has a captive market diesel requirement, such as the tractors to grow the rapeseed oil and trucks to haul produce to and from the area. I doubt that it's economic to produce rapeseed oil, ship it to a refinery and deliver it down the distribution chain. Not for the long term anyway [meaning 5 years]. Right now, with crude oil at $70 a barrel or thereabouts, rapeseed oil is probably economic. I don't believe those prices will last. Mqurice PS: Ah, and now I've found your question, which I now realize was a PM and it was in the "trash". It doesn't look too private, so herewith so readers know what it's about. < A known problem with rapseed oil as a replacement for diesel oil is its viscosity, which is, initially at least, too high. Any suggestion where to look for additive candidates? Would you have any off-the-cuff suggestion yourself? My son is ready to set up a rapseed oil pump (honest, keep laughing) and I owe him an answer, otherwise my scientific can-do will suffer a set-back. All the best and how's Helen;?> Helen is, hopefully, on her last week as Prime Minister. She plans next [I guess] on being UN Secretary General and will probably get support from Hu Jintao and others having steered a very cautious neutral foreign policy, aligned with UN and definitely NOT just falling in line with the USA and giving Israel some harrassment over their criminal acquisition of New Zealand passports. Since I'm in favour of the UN being revamped and she might well be good in that regard, it's a win-win-Winn situation, which is my ideal.