Sunflower seed oil: automotive fuel source. Final technical report

Technical Report · Sun Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1984

OSTI ID:5156473

Denny, W M

The intent of this portion of the project has to demonstrate the feasibility of utilizing sunflower seed oil as an alternate fuel for the spark ignition engine. The research was limited to small, one cylinder, air-cooled engines that are very common on the market place. Conventional fuels, such as gasoline, kerosene, diesel fuel blended with the sunflower oil were used. Sunfuel, sunflower oil, is difficult to procure and relatively expensive at approximately $4.00/gal. The research was unconcerned with how readily available or how competitively priced it was against petroleum products. All of the effort was to assume it was available and cost effective. We concentrated on making it burn in the heat engine and achieved it with marginal success. The review of the literature which was carried on concurrently with the research indicates several problems associated with producing Sunfuel.

• Research Organization: DENCO Mfg. Co., Inc., Springfield, MO (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: FG47-80R701140
• OSTI ID: 5156473
• Report Number(s): DOE/R7/01140-T1; ON: DE84007859
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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