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Re: What is so bad about bio/soy diesel?
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: F350_6</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> ASTM standards have helped, but a guy making it in his garage may or may not make good fuel.
We also have LSD & ULSD diesel in the market place now, and fuel stations just don't have enough tanks to offer a variety of fuels.
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Most homebrewers (including your's truly) are meeting and exceeding ASTM D6751 and BQ9000 standards regularly. I would challenge any commercial supplier to test my homebrewed fuel against their product.
A recent study by the National Biodiesel Board determined that nearly half of the commercial suppliers of biodiesel didn't even come close to meeting the standards set out in D6751 for free glycerin content and other factors.
Homebrewers are very careful about their processes, if something goes wrong with their fuel they only have themselves to blame [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/crazy.gif[/img] There is one simple test called the 3/27 test that is very quick and effective on washed and unwashed biodiesel.
The issue of stores selling biodiesel with ULSD and tankage is a moot one. Biodiesel is totally miscible with all forms of diesel. In fact many truck stops just had to keep an eye on their filtration after mixing in biodiesel for the obvious reason of removing contaminants.
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