Category Archives: Fuels

Happy Birthday | Rudolph Diesel

Today, March 18, 2010 is the birthday of Rudolph Diesel. He designed the first diesel engine to run on peanut  oil.  Today, thanks to his discovery, we have all types of diesel engines for automobiles and trains. It is kind of ironic that Rudolph Diesel was ...

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Nebraska Petroleum Marketers Association 2010 Expo

I am attending the Nebraska Petroleum Marketers Association Conference in La Vista, NE.  Today is the last day of the conference.  The conference appears to be growing again with excitement and this is evidenced by the larger number of vendors and attendees. Yesterday, the speakers ranged from Ndamukong Suh - talking about his football career ...

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National Biodiesel Conference 2010

Thanks to Chuck Zimmerman for keeping all of us in the loop with respect to news coming out of this weeks 2010 Conference. It is good to see good news coming out of the conference, in particular I really liked the piece on the Direct Fuels Biodiesel | Cold Soak Soak Filtration Test. ...

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