Following the pilot programme introduced in February 2013, B10 biodiesel is expected to be fully implemented nationwide by October this year, Bernama reports, with plantation industries and commodities (MPIC) minister Datuk Amar Douglas Uggah Embas saying the arrival of B10 will lift domestic consumption of crude palm oil by one million tonnes per year.
“The meetings with the stakeholders (planters) will be concluded by end-June and we will also finalise the papers on the implementation for submission to the Cabinet by then,” he told the national news agency.
B10, a blend of 10% palm-based biodiesel and 90% petroleum diesel, is set to replace B5 and B7 biodiesel. The pilot programme saw all of MPIC’s 81 diesel vehicles use 25 tonnes of B10 biodiesel annually. Its upcoming launch indicates that MPIC, SIRIM and the Standards department have established a new B10 standard, replacing B5’s MS123:2005.
Diesel passenger vehicles usually have a maximum B7 rating written on the fuel cap, so the move to 10% inadvertently leads to questions about adverse effects on diesel vehicles. The Malaysian Palm Oil Board (MPOB) has said before that according to studies, B10 will not affect diesel vehicles negatively, but will car companies have anything to say about this?
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Yea… but how about the price? Up, down, same?
Artificial market manipulation to sweep up palm oil stocks. more emphasis should be given to the fact that palm-based esters should be cleaner and are renewable in nature. This is against the fuel-food balance, but seeing as stocks are high now, not really an issue.
Preferably should be a free market mechanism that asks for biodiesel not artifical intervention. Pay attention to warranty T&Cs, manufacturers might not honor warranties for B7 and above. In the US, the blend ceiling is 10%; above which warranties will be void.
Obviously the manufacturers would agree – their business model will collapse if they said cannot.
The engine mapping has been calibrated for a maximum of 7%.
Oh well – only time will tell
Read somewhere else that biodiesels above B7 rating would have more than acceptable levels of water content in the fuel, potentially damaging the engine’s internals in the long run. Exactly how long they didn’t say, but it was said to be a consensus reached by many major automakers. Now they’re glossing over it? This is really cause for concern as this move to B10 biodiesel could potentially be at the peril of the workhorses and daily drivers of average citizens who have no say in the matter.
So who wanna be the white rat?
Give us the option to buy pure euro4 or euro5, and you can sell your b10 or b20. As far as biodiesels are concerned, there is a lab test done in Thailand that proves that using B3 reduces lubricity in the fuel pump, causes premature wear and tear. A Thai manufacturer also said that the specific brand cannot use biodiesel fuel of more than 5%. If you can read or Google Thai words of course.
thai plan to sell B10 by 2019…indonesia on trial B15..
Thai increased from b2 to b3 to b5, but the purpose solely to reduce the fuel selling costs.
In Malaysia, diesel prices are going up, up and up. Euro2 summore.
How much money the cronies can make by doing this?
diesel owner, you are F-ked.
‘The Malaysian Palm Oil Board (MPOB) has said before that according to studies, B10 will not affect diesel vehicles negatively’
What studies they are talking about? Who performed that studies?
100 % experimental work with real-scale diesel engine coupled to eddy current dynamometer was conducted for 36 months.
Not only B10, but also B20, B50 right up to B100.
Read here, Thailand conduct b10 test with Toyota since 2010..
“The department is awaiting the results of a 100,000-kilometre field test by Toyota on B10, or diesel with 10% biofuel. B10 performed well in an earlier pilot project and laboratory testing, showing no adverse engine effects.”
http://www.etcgreen.com/industry-news/biofuel/b10-diesel-implementation-in-thailand
Some research really says b10 biodiesel really can hurt diesel engines especially commonrail rail engines. I hope full studies can be conducted.
why hire some proton (phd) engineer to do in-house study? Wont affect diesel engine negetively means r u giving us the warranty? making money but dont give a sh!t to your customer.
just ask the beemer & mercs engineer about this, u will know this is not working on modern engine. there goes my x6 35D engine…keep delay the euro5 diesel now give me shit B10….