what are the advantages of biodiesel over diesel. ( why is it better to use biodiesel than use diesel)?
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what are the advantages of biodiesel over diesel. ( why is it better to use biodiesel than use diesel.) using siencetific words.
The main reason is that bio diesel is carbon neutral since it comes from plant and if not used it again becomes carbon dioxide or Methane when decomposed. But in diesel it comes from fossil fuel and it adds CO2 to the atmosphere.
But the important advantage is that bio diesel does not contain the pollutant Sulfur in it. since it is of plant origin it does not have sulfur. whereas the diesel has a considerable amount of sulfur in it and it gets converted to Sulfur dioxide which is very harmful to the atmosphere and can cause acid rains and also lung problem among humans.
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It’s ONLY advantage is that it is made from grown crop oils rather than oil taken out of the ground!
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Its not very scientific but the major advantage to Bio Diesel is that being biologically developed it breaks down in the environment more readily than normal diesel.
This also means though that the biological activity also occurs more readily in your fuel tank so it’s a doubled edged sword.
Bio-diesel is also known to be lower in Carbon Monoxide emissions but is higher in NOX. "Both strong green house gases"
The other problem is bio-diesel freezes at about 10 degrees f without the addition of benzene. Once you add benzene its no longer a bio fuel
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f-100 _ is correct. The reason the bio-fuel is better is because it comes from plants which take CO2 out of the atmosphere when they are growing. When the resulting bio-diesel is burned, the CO2 is returned to the atmosphere and the result is referred to as being "carbon neutral".
When using petroleum or other fossil fuels to manufacture your fuel, the carbon is taken from the ground and added to the atmosphere, thereby adding to the amount of greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere.
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It makes the air smell like french fries.
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In a word: Lubricity.
Biodiesel is a vastly superior lubricant, as compared with old high sulfur diesel.
Mind you, the sulfur was there to be a lubricant. So ultra-low-sulfur has close to no lubricity whatsoever. To replace the lubricity of sulfur, Europe adds 5% biodiesel to 95% fossil diesel. This is sufficient to replace the lost lubricity from the loss of sulfur. If you go 10% or more biodiesel, you get much better lubricity than you had before.
Think of it this way. What would you rather have lubricating your fuel injection pump? Alcohol from your medicine cabinet? Or Wesson oil from your kitchen?
At railway museums, we have historic diesels. We are VERY worried about lubricity because it determines the life of systems we can no longer get parts for. If somebody came out with a fuel that vastly improved the life of those parts, I’d be all over it…
But it’s your call. If you just think biodiesel is "Weird", and you are risk-averse and afraid of change, or you just don’t want anything to do with "the environmentalist agenda" or whatever… or you detest anything that is "green"… Or you just want to "stick to" traditional diesel (which really means you have CHANGED to ultra-low-sulfur diesel!) — then you would have an amazingly common attitude.
Just goes to show people’s sense of tradition is way stronger than their sense of protecting their investments in expensive equipment.
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bio is free, lubes the motor better, engine runs quieter, closed carbon cycle, smells nice.
Just gets a little messy.
Also, fuel consumption is around half that of Diesel.
The original motor was designed to run on veg oil, then the petrol company’s produced a fuel for the motor.
The name Diesel is the man who made the motor, the fuel people just put his name on their product.
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done it for years
it is cheaper that is about it really doesn’t make a differance to performance to how it runs plain and simple
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The main reason is that bio diesel is carbon neutral since it comes from plant and if not used it again becomes carbon dioxide or Methane when decomposed. But in diesel it comes from fossil fuel and it adds CO2 to the atmosphere.
But the important advantage is that bio diesel does not contain the pollutant Sulfur in it. since it is of plant origin it does not have sulfur. whereas the diesel has a considerable amount of sulfur in it and it gets converted to Sulfur dioxide which is very harmful to the atmosphere and can cause acid rains and also lung problem among humans.
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