PhilRice Machines to use biodiesel

Crossposting from PhilRice (they’re up again) this interesting news:
Farmers can soon cut on fuel expenses as the Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice) tests the efficiency of its developed biofuel on machines.
The plan is an offshoot of a recent lecture by Dr. Rico O. Cruz, an expert on biofuel from Oregon, USA, who promoted Cruzesterification, a process of producing biodiesel from used vegetable oils. “Producing biodiesel using Cruzesterification makes the production of biodiesel as “easy as making coffee, in which the catalyst is the coffee, alcohol as the sugar and oil as the hot water. Blend the three ingredients and you a have a coffee or a biodiesel in minutes,” Cruz said.
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leonor canete go jr says:

October 10, 2011 at 2:37 pm

thanks for the info.. can i have a simple design on how to build a rice dryer?

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raphael hurtado says:

March 5, 2012 at 11:52 am

hi, very interesting the flat rice dryer please let me know is i can buy one or let me know if you have tha planes for sale
thank you

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