Patent ID: 6532918
Filing Date: 2003-03-18
Classification: F01M,F02B,F02M,Y02T

Abstract:
A method of lubricating and simultaneously fueling a vegetable oil-operated internal combustion engine, comprising:storing vegetable oil in a container; drawing a portion of the vegetable oil from the container through a first feed line; controlling a quantity of the vegetable oil drawn from the container; adding additives to the portion of the vegetable oil drawn off from the container so as to form vegetable lubrication oil; supplying the vegetable lubrication oil to the internal combustion engine for lubrication; drawing exhausted vegetable lubrication oil from an oil pan of the internal combustion engine; supplying a remaining portion of the vegetable oil in the container to the internal combustion engine through a second feed line; and adding the exhausted vegetable lubrication oil drawn from the oil pan into the vegetable oil being supplied from the container to the internal combustion engine so as to form vegetable fuel oil to be combusted in the internal combustion engine.