Diesel made from old cooking oil to feed Metro Vancouver truck fleet

[Castanet News]

Metro Vancouver has passed a plan to swap diesel feeding a fleet of heavy-duty trucks in favour of a low-carbon fuel made from inedible animal fats and used...

[Piper4411]

lol what’s next

[Bsuds]

lol what’s next

Nothing wrong or strange about that. It's not something new either.

I had a friend who was collecting used cooking oil from Kelowna restaurants and converting to biodiesel and using it in an old Mercedes that he set up for it. He said it was pretty easy and it cost him nothing for fuel!

[GordonH]

As you driving around the city all of a sudden you have overwhelming craving for frenchfries.

[wellcoboy]

bio-fuels another big con , this is just restaurant grease being burned ...old news

[Babba_not_Gump]

bio-fuels another big con , this is just restaurant grease being burned ...old news

Yes, old news, but how is it a big con job? Tell us please.

[Glacier]

An old retired pastor i know in Alberta has been running his 1986 Land Cruiser on French Fry grease for at least 15 years. The problem is that it is hard to find the steady supply of grease, especially if you have a huge fleet. I highly doubt there's enough by-product in Vancouver to power the fleet.

[George Orwell 1984]

My neighbour had a fryer oil vehicle, it was constantly broke down and he stored his oil in 5 gallon jugs that were leaky . The conservation officer and bylaw finally paid him a visit over it being a bear attractant and it most certainly was.

[SAILINGONE]

Nothing new, cooking oil, basically used deep fry oil has always been collected and along with other waste oil send back to refineries as feed stock.

[twobits]

Yes, old news, but how is it a big con job? Tell us please.

It is not so much a con job as it is an exaggeration of used cooking grease being a significant displacement of the usual dino fuels.
It can be done and some real;y old diesels will actually run on just coffee filtered cooking oil but that is not the case with newer (30 yrs young) diesels.. To burn waste cooking oil in newer diesels it requires a bit of effort.....enuff so that 97% of people could and would not be interested in doing. That presumes they even have the space and the know how to do it.
If you are interested just google "make fryer oil into diesel" and you will understand the fallacy of small batch vs commercial. Plus it depends on where you live because of the viscosity of oil changes with ambient temperatures. Diesel injectors do not operate well with semi solid (thick) fats.

[Glacier]

The way my friend does it is he has two tanks. One is Diesel and one is cooking oil. He has to start the car on diesel and stop the car on diesel. If he ever forgets to stop it on diesel, it won't start. He has to run it for 15 minutes on diesel before stopping because it needs to clean out all the fat that won't work if it is cold.