NewsFebruary 27, 1991
SOYBEAN FUEL
COLUMBIA -- Engineers will embark on a project to fuel a pickup truck with modified soybean oil, to replace petroleum fuel in a "diesel" engine. "The Missouri Soybean Merchandising Council provided a one-year, $22,000 grant for the project," said Jim Frisby, agriculture engineer, at the Missouri University Farm. "Soybean oil show tremendous promise as a fuel for diesel engines."...
COLUMBIA -- Engineers will embark on a project to fuel a pickup truck with modified soybean oil, to replace petroleum fuel in a "diesel" engine.
"The Missouri Soybean Merchandising Council provided a one-year, $22,000 grant for the project," said Jim Frisby, agriculture engineer, at the Missouri University Farm. "Soybean oil show tremendous promise as a fuel for diesel engines."
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Frisby and agriculture engineer Leon Schulmacher will conduct the study.
For the study, a standard engine in a pickup truck will be replaced with a diesel engine, modified to use the heavier soybean oil.
The truck will added to the fleet of trucks used in the normal operations of the university research farms.
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