Thanks for all the info-camelina looks to have an important future

The word rape in rapeseed has nothing to do with the development of canola.

Rape comes from the greek word rapum meaning turnip. Rapeseed was use as an oil lubricant in WW2. Then after that Canada developed processes to make food grade rapeseed oil. Due to rapeseed containing high amounts of acids which are not needed for human growth they needed to change it.

In mid 70s University of Winnepeg developed the first crop known as 'canola' standing for "Canadian Oil"
This was done thru cross breeding rapeseed plants with very low contents of the bad oils, and trying to slowly breed them out. To be canola today one of the requiremts is for it to have less than 2% erucic acid in the seed.

The way I heard it.......

CANada Oil Low Acid = CANOLA

I could be wrong.

i like yours better

I read that article over a year ago, you may even be right..

Just for fun, can you identify these oil seeds.

I am going to guess Jatropha seeds -although they look like the ticks,I get off the dog!!

^^^^^^ agree

Jatropha it is. Pressed 10 lbs for someone to see how the press worked.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-LvXPzlT_g

Another clip of canola being pressed. I always like to see the oil spray and pop out of the press. You can get sprayed good if you don't keep the cover on the press.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BFuiFrK5C0

Thats really neat..

How much oil did you manage to press from your 10lbs of seed?

That's some pressure in that press!-Do you heat the seed/press at all,to help the oil flow?Do the "canola dregs" go to cattle feed cake?
Thanks

Stupid question really,I guess the seed heats anyway under compression-doh

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Originally posted by Reece123:
Thats really neat..

How much oil did you manage to press from your 10lbs of seed?

Did not measure the oil myself. The seeds were not the best quality for oil. Just wanted to see how the press handled the seeds. Maybe 8 to 10 oz collected.

quote:

Originally posted by taralec:
That's some pressure in that press!-Do you heat the seed/press at all,to help the oil flow?Do the "canola dregs" go to cattle feed cake?
Thanks

We do not heat canola seed. When it is cold we try to heat soybeans before pressing. The press cake is feed to the cows. It is very good feed.

Temp in the press runs from 165 to 200 F.

Here is a clip of a 671 Detroit running on canola oil, SVO. The winter canola that is fueling the engine grew in the field that is being watered.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhR10JUbi3U

Nice sound, sweet set-up.... it's so good to see folks like you closing the loops to get completely off terrorist oil. Every drop of Mid-east oil puts money in the pockets of people who want to destroy our culture. Good on ya Mate!!!

Clips and Photos of putting another winter canola crop in the ground.

Spreading "fertilizer"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...feature=channel_page

Planting
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...feature=channel_page

Very nice directing and camera work

Cold temperature test of Camelina biodiesel made from locally grown feedstock. The oil was double-expeller pressed, filtered and degummed before transesterfication. A 750 ml sample was put into a cold oven. A type-K thermocouple was submerged in the sample and monitored on a strip chart recorder. Oil condition was checked after stabilizing at each temperature for 1 hour (min).

-6c slightly cloudy
-8c cloudy "orange juice", possibly filter plugging
-11c opaque, likely filter plugging, but still liquid
-14c gelled solid

I was disappointed. I had been told that Camelina was superior to Canola at low temperatures. I had no filter plugging problems when driving my Land Rover at -20c on biodiesel I made from used Canola cooking oil (although I believe I was pushing my luck). Is there a difference between Canola oil as used for frying, vs expeller pressed and degummed Canola? Maybe. It's not unreasonable to believe that cooking oil has been "winterized" to remove the cloud-forming fractions that appear at refrigerator temperatures (so it has a nice appearance to the home consumer), but I'd surprised this would have been done to fryer oil.

The samples were provided by the Inland Empire Oilseed biodiesel plant in Odessa Washington. It's majority owned by the local grain growers union. I have high hopes they'll stay in business. for one thing, the farmers now have a steady supply of fuel at a predictable price. Too bad it won't work at our winter temperatures. Their plan is to blend it with enough diesel to make it work.

Nevertheless, this satisfies my long-time desire to power my truck with locally grown fuel. Until now I've only been able to use locally sourced used cooking oil, but it was grown somewhere else (we're not at war with Iowa, are we?)

Cheers,
JohnO

WOW, Now that is on helluva $hit spreader!! Those must be speed drills?! How fast are you going drilling in the seed? Things have come along way since I used to help out on a ranch 25 years ago!
Nice setup FF!
Jon

The ground speed is around 5 MPH. If you watch the GPS screen in the clip you can see the speed. It is hard to hold the camera still while bouncing along. Don't get sea sick.