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Eway54 Ecodiesel Now Selling

Written by on August 29, 2011 · Leave a Comment
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May we offer you a way to make a change, while still in this fragile earth of ours ? Use Eway54 Ecodiesel a 100% Biodiesel product made from refined coconut oil, the best in the world for biodiesel use.

It makes so much sense, less asthma for the kids, no smoke belching, lower cost than diesel at P 41 a liter achieving or surpassing the same mileage you now experience with Petrodiesel, and for every liter you use biodiesel, you mitigate 3 pounds of carbon dioxide in the air. Now how cool is that ?

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Used Cooking Oil Biodiesel Cleans Out Fuel Tanks, Fuel Lines, and Pumps

Written by on May 18, 2012 · 1 Comment
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Used Cooking Oil Biodiesel is an excellent solvent.  It can be used as an additive to clean out your diesel engine’s tank, fuel lines, and pumps.

This property is actually the reason why people fill up with about ten liters or more of 100% Biodiesel, blending it with the petroleum diesel that’s already in their tanks.

A higher blend of biodiesel causes all the dirt in these parts to be dislodged and flow with the fuel.

We advise people who are thinking of switching to a higher blend above 10 percent (in the Philippines it’s still around 5 percent to 10 percent at most gas stations) to shift to biodiesel gradually.  One user of Eway54 100 percent biodiesel started with a 10 percent blend of biodiesel and gradually increased it to 50 percent by 5 percent increments.

To determine your desired blend or biodiesel to petrol diesel ratio, just divide your diesel tank’s capacity by 10 and that will give you the volume of 100 percent biodiesel you’ll need for every tankful.  For example, if your tank’s capacity is 25 US Gallons or about 94 liters, you’ll need 2.5 US gallons or 9.5 liters of 100 percent biodiesel for every 22.5 US Gallons or 84.5 liters of petrol diesel.

The dirt dislodged by the higher blend of biodiesel will collect in your diesel fuel filter and it will necessitate either cleaning or replacing your fuel filter — which is just part of your engine’s maintenance.

Diesel fuel filters will need replacement or cleaning periodically and it is best to refer to your owner’s manual to find out when you should replace or clean your diesel engine’s fuel filter.  (And just in case you want to learn how to replace or clean your fuel filter b

If you use biodiesel at higher blends, modifying fuel lines might be advisable.  To determine how much fuel is 20 percent of your tank, divide the total volume by five.  That’s how much biodiesel you need to add to make a 20 percent blend in a full tank.

If you use biodiesel at higher blends, modifying fuel lines might be advisable.

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Flying High on Used Cooking Oil, Will Philippine Airlines Follow Suit?

Written by on April 20, 2012 · Leave a Comment
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Eating air-freighted food is a big “no no” among people who want to save the planet by lowering carbon emissions and abating global warming.  Eating fresh seafood flown in from foreign shores should be frowned upon because flying fresh fish actually contributes to global warming.

According to the IATA website, air transport contributes 2% of global manmade CO2 emissions and this is projected to grow to 3% by 2050 (IPCC).

The total climate change impact (including radiative forcing from other greenhouse gases) is 3%, and projected to grow to 5% by 2050 (IPCC).  Total emissions for 2010 increased by 3.5% to 649 million tonnes CO2 (compared with 627 million tonnes in 2009).

Emissions growth of 3.5% in 2010 is the result of an increase of 5.2% due to capacity increase (33 million tonnes) and a reduction of 1.7% from efficiencies (11 million tonnes).

Of course, air freighting food probably accounts for just a percentage of air traffic around the world and the bulk of air travel is still mainly associated to people flying from one destination to another.

In any case, the significant contribution of air travel to global warming  is probably one of the reasons why some airlines and aircraft manufacturers are looking into the possibility of fueling aircraft with biodiesel made from used cooking oil.

Just recently, the first 787 Dreamliner to be partially powered by biofuels – in this case, chip fat – flew from Boeing’s Delivery Center in Everett, Washington to Tokyo Haneda Airport.

All Nippon Airways (ANA) – which operated the flight – estimated that the use of part recycled cooking oil reduced its greenhouse gas emissions on the flight by 30 percent.  The airline calculated that 10 percent of those savings came from using a part biofuels blend and the other 20 percent from the efficiency of the aircraft, which is largely built from lightweight composites including carbon fibre reinforced plastic.

Used cooking oil – which is refined and processed to make biofuels– can cost up to six times as much as existing jet fuel to produce.  But airlines believe cooking oil is one of the many sustainable alternatives available that could fuel the airline industry in future.

Thomson Airways, KLM, Virgin Atlantic, Lufthansa and most recently, Qantas have all made test flights partly powered by recycled cooking oil.

However, the dream of one day having all airlines using aviation fuel made from used cooking oil to power flights may continue to be a dream until enough aviation fuel from used cooking oil can be produced.

Moreover, being six times more expensive than aviation fuel made from fossil fuel sources, the question is whether passengers will be willing to pay more money in order to help save the planet from global warming.

Qantas group boss Alan Joyce said in a statement: “Until sustainable aviation fuel is produced commercially at a price competitive with conventional jet fuel, we will not be able to realize its true benefits.”  Qantas has announced that it will carry out a study into the potential for a sustainable aviation fuel industry in Australia. It will examine which alternative fuels will have the most success.

British Airways aims to supply aircraft with biofuel converted from household waste, starting with flights out of London City, by 2015. Air New Zealand has trialled the use of biofuels sourced from jatropha plants.  In 2008, Virgin Atlantic became the first commercial airline to operate a flight partly powered by biofuel – derived from a blend of coconut and nut oil.

Philippine Airlines, now coming under new leadership after being acquired by San Miguel Corporation, should also consider powering its flights using aviation fuel made from used cooking oil.  With a incipient laws coming into place banning the use and sale of used cooking oil for human consumption, the supply of used cooking oil for conversion into biodiesel as well as aviation fuel may probably approach reaching levels where it may actually become feasible.

 

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Machine Gives Money for Waste Cooking Oil

Written by on April 16, 2012 · Leave a Comment
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There’s cash in trash… Or in the case of Turkish Marine Protection Association General Director M. A. Ozkural, people can get money for turning in their waste cooking oil.

In the face of legislation banning the sale and distribution of waste cooking oil in the Philippines, one of the bigger problems will be be how to collect the waste cooking oil from small fast serve restaurants (carinderias) and even households.

The machine created by the Turkish Marine Protection Association may be just the answer to this.

An article on The Green Prophet tells of a machine where people can pour in their waste cooking oil and get money, bus tokens or coupons.

Called BAYTOM, the machine gives incentives to Turks to recycle cooking oil into biodiesel rather than dump it.

In cities with BAYTOMs (Waste Vegetable Oil Collection Machines), residents can bring their used cooking oil outside and pour it into a machine that will measure its fat content and dispense a small gift: money, bus tokens, or coupons, for example. Licensed waste management companies come regularly to collect the oil and transport it to a plant where it can be recycled into biodiesel fuel.

Used cooking oil dumped into sewers eventually ends up in streams, rivers, and lakes, significantly contributing to an increase in Biological Oxygen Demand which in turn kills these bodies of water.

Of the 350,000 tons of waste vegetable oil that Turkey produces each year, just 10 percent is collected for recycling. When it comes to biodiesel production capacity, however, Turkey has the second highest in the world, after Germany.

Most of it currently uses agricultural feedstock, but biodiesel production from waste oil is more environmentally friendly, according to Turkish Marine Protection Association General Director M.A. Özkural. When using waste oil, moreover, 65 to 80 percent of the liquid can be turned into biodiesel, which results in 50 percent less CO2 emissions than regular petroleum.

In the meantime, keeping waste oil from being dumped down the drain has a range of other benefits. Oils congeal on the insides of sewer pipes, causing blockages and reducing pipe flow capacity, which leads to extra municipal infrastructure expenses.

When it reaches open water, oil spreads thinly over the surface and prevents oxygenation, suffocating many types of marine life. The situation allows some creatures, like jellyfish, to flourish and undergo population booms that make it even more difficult for marine ecosystems to stay diverse. Just one liter of waste oil is enough to pollute 1 million liters of water. Domestic waste is responsible for 25 percent of water pollution in Turkey.

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Is Going B100 a Smart Move In The Midst of Rising Fuel Prices?

Written by on April 14, 2012 · Leave a Comment
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An optimistic outlook on negotiations between Iran and other countries in the Persian Gulf has bolstered views that oil prices may be coming down.

An article on Bloomberg explains:

U.S. oil prices may fall next week on speculation negotiations between Iran and world powers over the Persian Gulf nation’s nuclear program will reduce tension, a Bloomberg News survey of 33 analysts and traders showed.

Brent futures traded above $128 a barrel last month as Iran threatened to shut the Strait of Hormuz, a transit route for a fifth of the world’s crude, in retaliation against international sanctions. The European Union plans to ban the transportation, purchase, financing and insurance of Iranian oil from July 1.

However, if you look at the longer span of oil prices, it has continued to go upward over the decades even in the face of developments in renewable energy.  This track will continue and as prices go higher, alternative fuels begin to look better and better.

For the Philippines which imports most of its fuel, it would seem that the best way to go is to wean itself away from its dependence on imported fossil fuels and develop renewable alternative fuel sources.

The most viable alternative fuel, so far, is biodiesel made from waste-vegetable-oil or used cooking oil.

It is at least 10 percent cheaper than regular diesel, but to realize substantial savings in fuel costs, one must opt for a higher mix of biodiesel — a move that may cause some concern for a great number of car owners.

Currently, the most popular blend is B10 or B20 or a mix of 10 to 20 percent Biodisel with 90 to 80 percent regular diesel.  To realize the full 10 percent savings in fuel costs, one has to think about going for B100 (1o0 percent biodiesel) or at least B50 (50% biodiesel).

Car owners are concerned that a drastic move to fill their tanks with a 100 percent Biodiesel may cause problems with their engines.  This despite the huge amount of information provided by car owners who are already using B100.

The issue is not so much of a lack of technical information regarding B100, but more psychological in certain instances.

Even test runs conducted by Eway54 with jeepney operators yielded a mix of observations, some of which were not too positive.

Although on the whole, jeepney operators experienced their engines giving off less black soot and an increase in power, they also experienced a slightly higher consumption.

Technicians running the Eway54 project with jeepney operators investigated the observation and found out that the slight increase in consumption to the cleaning action of the biodiesel on fuel injectors.

Despite the explanation, the jeepney operators still chose to switch back to regular diesel — a move that isn’t surprising at all.

Given a choice between regular diesel to which they are used to and biodiesel, jeepney operators explained their decision two switch back based on hiyang or familiarity.

In any case, in the decades ahead or may be sooner, the choice between fossil fuels and alternative fuels may not be that easy to make.  It is only a matter of time before either the supply or production of fossil fuels goes down for a number of reasons or global warming gets to a point where operating on fossil fuels finally sends the earth gasping — if it already isn’t.

Pretty soon, the choices won’t be there and it’s better to switch-over to the alternative sooner than having to scramble for a solution later.

 

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Philippine UCO Bio Diesel Production to Receive Boost from Used Cooking Oil Ban

Written by on March 22, 2012 · 1 Comment
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Bio-diesel production in the Philippines is expected to get a big boost with an anticipated rise in the availability of used cooking oil or UCO.  Among the factors that have held back bio diesel production in the country is the lack of a consistent supply of feed stock or raw material that can be converted into bio-diesel.  While the idea of using castor beans and jathropa as feed stock for bio-diesel production has been attempted before, the growing of these feed stocks have been largely experimental and reached production in scales that would make continuous bio-diesel production viable.

Just last week, three Philippine congressmen introduced House Bill 5957 which  prohibits the recycling and selling of used cooking oil.   Known as the “Anti-Used Cooking Oil Act of 2012″, the proposed legislation seeks to prevent used cooking oil from fast food companies or quick serve restaurants from being resold.

Under the measure, it shall be unlawful for any person or entity to buy or sell used cooking oil, except for industrial purposes, such as, homemade biodiesel fuel, lubricant, soup-making and weather-proofing of exterior woodwork, among others.

Retailer, proprietor, corporation or local government unit who shall sell, or authorize to sell, used cooking oil that is not to be used for industrial purposes shall be fined with not less than P10,000 but not more than P50,000.

The bill is authored by Congressmen Christopher Co, Rodel Batocabe, and Alfredo Garbin, Jr. (Party-list, AKO Bicol)

“The use of recycled cooking oil has its many dangers, leading to the increased incidents of hypertension, damage to the liver, and could be a potential cause of cancer. Other countries, particularly in China and Malaysia, have also made efforts to curb this unhealthy practice,” Co said.

“There have been reports that packs of used cooking oil have mushroomed in the markets because these were a lot cheaper,” Batocabe said.

 ”Used cooking oil shall only be distributed to accredited retailers and users, and the sale of used cooking oil to any person not an accredited retailer shall be prima facie evidence of a violation of the proposed act,” Garbin said.

Despite the benefits claimed for banning the sale and use of used cooking oil, the bill has been criticized by consumers seeking relief from the rising prices of consumer goods.  Used cooking oil from fast food or quick serve restaurants are sold in wet markets at a much lower price than unused cooking oil — it is around 10 to 20 Philippine pesos less for a 1.5 liter bottle.

Moreover, other critics point out that the bill emphasizes penalties rather than providing a mechanism that will allow people to receive benefits from banning the use or sale of used cooking oil.  One model that could have been institutionalized in the bill could have been a community based approach towards bio-diesel production.

The manufacturers of Eway54 Bio Diesel, in line with their thrust of creating resilient communities through energy self-sufficiency, worked together with families of jeepney operators to collect used cooking oil, convert it into bio diesel and use the bio-diesel in their vehicles.  This would not only result in fuel savings for the jeepney operators, but the resulting by product of the UCO to bio disel conversion, which is pure nitroglycerin, can be made into a soap which their wives could re-sell.

In any case, the ban of used cooking oil is expected to create opportunities for setting up a new form of business that may be engaged either in collecting or converting used cooking oil for bio-diesel production.

This development comes at a good time as fuel prices continue to climb and bio-diesel, made from used cooking oil, becomes not only the less expensive but the more sustainable alternative fuel.

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Eway54 Ecodiesel Marks Milestone: Supplies 10,000 Liters to Single Client

Written by on September 13, 2011 · Leave a Comment
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I just got word from the guys at the Eway54 Ecodiesel plant and the word was “Whoopeee!”

The hardworking guys at the Eway54 Ecodiesel plant has a lot to celebrate because it just supplied 10,000 liters of ecodiesel to a single client/member. (See the picture below.)

Eway54 Ecodiesel supplies 10,000 liters to single client

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