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Biodiesel => Vehicles => Topic started by: Mark2256 on May 09, 2019, 10:59:19 AM

Title: 2006 Citroen C5 1.6 hdi running on Biodiesel
Post by: Mark2256 on May 09, 2019, 10:59:19 AM
Hi All not been on the forum for a while, I have been building my bio plant, I have now completed my first batch (100 litres). I am now running my car on a 40 litres biodiesel and 20 litres Diesel mix to see how it runs and all appears good.

I took the car down to my MOT man yesterday for an emissions test?

Boston 1 is the test result from the previous MOT.

Boston 2 is the test result from yesterday.




Title: Re: 2006 Citroen C5 1.6 hdi running on Biodiesel
Post by: RichardP on May 09, 2019, 09:59:56 PM
Looks like a good reduction from what I can make out. Good result.
Title: Re: 2006 Citroen C5 1.6 hdi running on Biodiesel
Post by: Mark2256 on May 10, 2019, 10:16:50 AM
Thank You For the reply,

I am hoping to run p100 and would like to see the mean opacity come down to around 0.0?

Title: Re: 2006 Citroen C5 1.6 hdi running on Biodiesel
Post by: dgs on May 10, 2019, 05:09:11 PM
Hi Mark, have a look at some of the Smoke Density readings we got with the simple methanol/water injection here.

http://www.biopowered.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,3107.0.html
Title: Re: 2006 Citroen C5 1.6 hdi running on Biodiesel
Post by: Tony on May 12, 2019, 12:08:47 AM
Good result. You can still get some soot with biodiesel so don't set your expectations too high.

One word of caution would be blending biodiesel and fossil fuels - sometimes this can cause dropout in the fuel, only is best to mix outside the tank and stand for a while - if you don't want a blocked fuel filter. Obviously not an issue with b100. Most likely not a problem anyway but it's worth mentioning just in case.
Title: Re: 2006 Citroen C5 1.6 hdi running on Biodiesel
Post by: Mark2256 on November 15, 2019, 02:42:10 PM
Hi All not been on for a while so here's an update on my car running B100. I took the car in for is new MOT last month and emissions test showed mean opacity value of 0.13 {m-1] I don't think I will get any better than this.
Title: Re: 2006 Citroen C5 1.6 hdi running on Biodiesel
Post by: Tony on November 16, 2019, 12:16:05 AM
That's pretty amazing. :)