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are directors of GoldenFuels Ltd, a biodiesel production cooperative in Oxfordshire, UK: goldenfuels.com. Jon and Dan tutor on LILI’s biodiesel course.
Dave Darby
is director of LILI.
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If you have any engines that run on diesel (e.g. car, boat, generator), and an interest in chemistry then this book is for you.
It is very well structured with explanations in the right order so that everything makes sense.
The background surrounding environmental issues and how a diesel engine actually works are covered before moving onto the chemistry of biodiesel manufacture and what is needed for a reactor.
The chemistry section is explained very clearly, albeit longwinded (which it has to be due to the nature of the subject - remember organic chemistry lectures - say no more!).
By the time you're reading the section about the reactor, you will already be thinking how you are going to clear a space in the garden shed and start building.
The last main section of the book explains how to go about doing it all legally and keeping Customs & Excise happy.
I reccomend this to anyone who is interested in setting up their own reactor to produce biodiesel - the fuel of the future.
The book looks a little like it's copied piecemeal from various websites, and it propagates a lot of the myths about biodiesel [...]. The authors don't have any credentials that they tell us of, and they don't cite many sources, and sometimes the ones they cite are parodies. At least one of them was a wikipedia clone!
Making biodiesel is serious business, you'll be dealing with explosive fumes, and methanol can easily blind and kill you if you're careless or unlucky. While the authors do warn about that, it seems like they've done most of their research for this book on web forums, and that does not inspire confidence.
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