any internal combustion engine can run on biofuels. gas engines can run on alcohol with a few mods, and diesel engines can run on biodiesel or SVO with a few mods.
Biodiesel is diesel. As opposed to ethanol which is somewhat gasoline-like, and not a good gasoline nor a good biofuel. Fortunately, just about every industrial engine is diesel-like:
- highway trucks - construction equipment - all locomotives (that aren’t electric) - farm machinery - all larger boats and ships (that aren’t nuclear) - all commercial and military aircraft, and all jets including turboprops - backup generators for buildings - oil well pump engines, lol! - all oil-fired boilers (including a few historic steam locomotives)
The beauty thing is, many industrial engines are designed for the cheapest fuel, bunker oil. Simple vegetable oil is a direct substitute! No need for a biodiesel conversion.
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buses and there are certain types of planes
any internal combustion engine can run on biofuels. gas engines can run on alcohol with a few mods, and diesel engines can run on biodiesel or SVO with a few mods.
Biodiesel is diesel. As opposed to ethanol which is somewhat gasoline-like, and not a good gasoline nor a good biofuel. Fortunately, just about every industrial engine is diesel-like:
- highway trucks
- construction equipment
- all locomotives (that aren’t electric)
- farm machinery
- all larger boats and ships (that aren’t nuclear)
- all commercial and military aircraft, and all jets including turboprops
- backup generators for buildings
- oil well pump engines, lol!
- all oil-fired boilers (including a few historic steam locomotives)
The beauty thing is, many industrial engines are designed for the cheapest fuel, bunker oil. Simple vegetable oil is a direct substitute! No need for a biodiesel conversion.
Richard Branson’s Virgin Voyager Train runs on b20 diesel.
Many planes run on mixtures of biofuels as well. Ethanol, and even diesel. Research is now being done for liquid methane as fuel for jets.