2ndVegOil – Decentrally produced vegetable oil fuels for modern agricultural machinery

Description

In the 2ndVegOil-project a vegetable oil purification process for decentralized oil mills was developed to application maturity. This allows to use vegetable oils of different kinds as fuel in modern agricultural machines. In parallel, additives, lubricating oils and tractor engines for operation with vegetable oil fuels were developed and tested in field trials.

Tractors adapted to operation with vegetable oil of emission level 3A ran successfully for a total of 24,000 hours with eight different vegetable oils. The suitability of rapeseed oil fuel for emission levels 3B and 4 was demonstrated in short field tests. Work on standardization resulted in the European Standardization Committee (CEN) Workshop Agreement CWA 16379.

Services

• Preparation of a grant application in the 7th European Research Framework Programme for a consortium of ten partners from five countries on behalf of and under the leadership of John Deere
• Negotiations with the European Commission on the conclusion of the funding contract and its successive adjustment (amendments)
• Creation of tools for content and financial project coordination and controlling by John Deere
• Organization of events to process the results of the project
• Preparation of a study on the climate-friendliness of vegetable oil fuels
• Preparation of reports to the European Commission