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Flat Plate Heat Exchanger 30 plates Use this flat plate exchanger to preheat vegetable oil as a biofuel prior to the filter and/or injection pump to improve viscosity and flow. Using a standard fitting size of 1/2″ NPT threads you can select a barbed fitting to suit any hose line you may have. The heat [...] Continue reading Flat Plate Heat Exchangers for vegetable conversions Fuel, power bills to rise as NZ gets ETS – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation). New Zealanders are bracing for higher electricity and fuel prices with the introduction of an emissions trading scheme (ETS). From today New Zealanders will pay around three cents a litre more for fuel. Electricity bills are set to increase [...] Continue reading Fuel, power bills to rise as NZ gets ETS Source – ABC News http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/08/27/2347650.htm Green group rejects power plant proposal Posted Wed Aug 27, 2008 10:24am AEST Eden 2551 Conservationists have rejected the idea of a wood-fired electricity generation plant being built on the New South Wales far south coast. Eden-based woodchipping company South East Fire Exports yesterday formally unveiled its plans for [...] Continue reading wood-fired electricity generation ? Source – TradingRoom.com.au World’s 3rd charge network to service Aust electric cars in 2011 Better Place Australia (BPA) will roll out the world’s third large scale charge network to service electric cars across Australia from 2011 and expects up to 20 per cent of local vehicles will be electricity-powered by 2020. BPA says it will [...] Continue reading will this work in Australia? Don’t destroy your pollak using dirty vegetale oil [...] Continue reading How to kill a pollak 6 port fuel valve (3) I posted yesterday how a pollak can be destroyed by a lower than rated voltage in your vehicle. The Pollak switching requires a full 12 volts to drive the valve into the completed contact position to prevent a partial contact which can cause the switch to burn out. While a strong unit, it is preferable [...] Continue reading How to kill a pollak 6 port fuel valve (2) Pollak fuel valves are a very effective and strong fuel valve for vehicles with 2 tanks systems. It is a popular item for people who run their vehicles on straight vegetable oil SVO or WVO or UCO. Such a valve reduces the purge time for the system and reduces excessive mixing of the fuel types, [...] Continue reading How to kill a pollak 6 port fuel valve (1) With many miles of railways having being shut down during periods of rationalisation it is great that someone has thought about a use for these miles of track. There will be objections from many citing legality and responsibility but rather than just letting these assets rot away (which they will because not many government departments [...] Continue reading what a great idea While these are failry common in the US it is quite difficult to get them at a reasonable price in Australia. Telepoint has a few on special until the 18th $125.90 + postage in Australia is not a bad price and if you combine a few items such as an immmersion heater or flat plate [...] Continue reading pollak fuel valve 6 port Using vegetable oil as a fuel is nothing new, I have been doing it for quite a while and nothing has broken. Generally I use coarse filtering (green woollies bag) and settling as the main filtering methods before going through a 5 and then 1 micron filter bag. Recently I have been using a 2400 [...] Continue reading Vegetable oil optimal temp? After a long and convuluted series opf discussions and arguments the Gorgon project off Pilbara looks set to go ahead. It appears that even in these enlightened times the $$ is very strong, even when the Federal Government is pushing for a carbon tax, one of the very industries that will be “compensated” by taxpayers [...] Continue reading How much sustainable energy would 50 billion make? AMD processors, 20 flat plate heat exchangers, pollak fuel valves are available as current specials. Try http://www.telepoint.biz/specials.php Geoff Look on the net and you will find many conversations about heating oil, filtering oil, drying oil and so on. I cold filter all my oil, sometimes this is done immediately after pickup and sometimes after weeks of settling. Filter through a green woollies bag and remove as much fat and detritus as possible, sometimes [...] Continue reading why would you heat your oil? Using waste vegetable oil in your diesel vehicle can help redeuce the complexity of life and make your carbon footprint smaller. www.telepoint.biz has a number of options that will make this easier for you. Geoff It is beginning to appear as if there will be some sort of deal struck on Australian emissions leglislation. I agree that something has to be done but it is beginning to appear as if the whole thing will be skewed towards the big business and existing profits model. The coal industry and now possibly [...] Continue reading Labor and Liberal – taking the $$s and running? Well obviously you do not necessarily need one of these units in your vegetable oil conversion but they may make all the difference to the way your vehicle runs and survives on oil. Many Injection Pumps (IP) just cannot handle the thicker vegetable oil in your system. They have been designed for diesel. To make [...] Continue reading Why do I need a 6 port pollak fuel valve? http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/07/03/2615814.htm Wind farm approved despite court challenge The New South Wales Government has given planning approval for a wind farm at Gullen Range, near Goulburn in the state’s south, despite an ongoing case in the Land and Environment Court. The Government has given the $250 million plan the green light after putting in place measures [...] Continue reading windfarm approved near crookwell Change the way you treat your vegetable oil Portable Immersion Heater 240 volt wired with 3 pin plug 2400 watt 54 cm length overall 36 cm length from hook to element 5 cm diameter of element (will not fit in cap hole of 20 litre drum) Excellent and quick unit to heat oil in 20 [...] Continue reading 240 volt wired with 3 pin plug Pollak 6 Port Fuel Selector Valve + wiring loom SVO, WVO or Biodiesl Suitable for straight oil conversions or as an upgrade to your existing fuel valve configuration General Information This Pollak fuel valve is intended for use in fuel systems operating within the specifications listed below. Please ensure that you read the information and/or [...] Continue reading Pollak 6 Port fuel valve in stock Another week and another heat exchanger import. What a saga this is when you (or I) decide to self import instead of using a broker. Customs seem to like making this more difficult as they recently cancelled the ability for remoter areas (ie away from Sydney) to lodge the paperwork via fax. You now have [...] Continue reading The joys of importing After a period of falling dollar and increasing costs I have bitten the bullet and imported a large number of 30 plate flat plate heat exchangers These heat exchangers are excellent for heating vegetable oil in your vehicle conversion or can be used as a wort chiller in your home brewery – I sell quite [...] Continue reading More 30 plate heat exchangers on the way. While this is a really small reference there are not enough references to the “hidden costs” of carbon economies. While we are all happy to take the assumed benefits of expansion and productivity the carbon that powers this is rarely, if ever, taken into a/c The article appears to be more in relation to a [...] Continue reading The cost of carbon? This is worth supporting IMO http://christine-milne.greensmps.org.au/blog/help-me-make-a-renewables-feed-law-a-reality It will force a change in direction, it is similar to the process introduced in Germany and other parts of Europe. Basically it calls on producers af power, other then major current industries, to be given a guaranteed payment for a number of years for each kWh produced, this [...] Continue reading Lets Just do it………… ABC ran this article today and I am even more convinced that we still do not get it! Emissions trading ‘could produce $20b windfall’ http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/03/20/2194865.htm This income is not a windfall or a bonus, it is a part payment for damages already done, to even suggest it could be used for anything but paying for [...] Continue reading They just don’t get it………….. |
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