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Vegetable oils are moving from the kitchen table to the car engine

Vegetable oil can serve as a renewable, less polluting alternative fuel and engine lubricant.

References:

Boehman, A.L., et al. 1998. Changes in particulate emissions using a vegetable oil lubricant in a single-cylinder IDI diesel engine. Meeting of the American Chemical Society. August. Boston.

Further Readings:

Additional information about biodiesel can be found at the National Biodiesel Board's Web site at http://www.nbb.org.

The World Oil Market and Oil Price Chronologies: 1970-1997 by the United States Energy Information Administration can be found at http://eiainfo.eia.doe.gov/emeu/cabs/chron.html.

1997. Renewable energy. CQ Researcher 7(Nov. 7):961.

1977. Gasohol takes to the road. Science News 112(Oct. 29):280.

Knothe, G., R.O. Dunn, and M.O. Bagby. 1997. Biodiesel: The use of vegetable oils and their derivatives as alternative diesel fuels. Fuels and Chemicals from Biomass. Washington, D.C.: American Chemical Society.

Lipkin, R. 1994. Using bacteria to get sulfur out of oil. Science News 146(Aug. 27):134.

Monastersky, R. 1998. Geologists anticipate an oil crisis soon. Science News 154(Oct. 31):278.

Raloff, J. 1998. Soya-nara heart disease. Science News 153(May 30):348.

______. 1998. Unsaturated fats play yin-yang cancer role. Science News 153(Jan. 17):37.

Sources:

André L. Boehman
Pennsylvania State University
Department of Energy and Geo-Environmental Engineering
114B Hosler Building
University Park, PA 16802-5000

Lou Honary
University of Northern Iowa
Ag-Based Industrial Lubricants Research Program
400 Technology Place
Waverly, IA 50677

Gerhard Knothe
National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research
1815 North University Street
Peoria, IL 61604-3999
Lowell Norland

University of Northern Iowa
Ag-Based Industrial Lubricants Research Program
Waverly, IA 50677

Renewable Lubricants, Inc.
476 Griggy Road, N.E.
Hartville, OH 44632-9211

From Science News, Vol. 154, No. 23, December 5, 1998, p. 364. Copyright Ó 1998 by Science Service.

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