Diesel Engine
How can a diesel engine run on alternative fuels?
What would it take to run a diesel engine on, for example, cooking oil left over from a fast food restaurant? What about corn based fuels?
Does this destroy an engine or will it be OK?
Depends on you call alternative fuels.
Diesel engine normally run on diesel. But they can also run on heating oil. Heating oil is almost exactly the same as diesel but priced differently beacause of it's usage. They use a different coloring of the fuel to identify it easily. It is also usually illegal to use heating oil in a car because your are screwing with the tax system when you do that. But that's not really alternative fuel.
Diesels can also run on biodiesel. A combination of diesel and vegetable oil. They can also run on filtered vegetable oil with very minor adjustment to the engine. So biodiesel and vegetable oil are the most common alternative fuels reffered to for diesel engines.
So how does the engine run on them. The same way it uses regular diesel. These alternate fuels are so similar to diesel in their combustion process and energy output that the engine sees practically no difference.
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