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Economics of on‐farm processing of sunflower oil

Author(s) -

Helgeson Delmer L.,

Schaffner Leroy W.

Publication year - 1983

Publication title -

journal of the american oil chemists' society

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.512

H-Index - 117

eISSN - 1558-9331

pISSN - 0003-021X

DOI - 10.1007/bf02666586

Subject(s) - gallon (us) , sunflower , sunflower oil , diesel fuel , waste management , environmental science , pulp and paper industry , engineering , agronomy , chemistry , biology , food science

Sunflower oil is being researched as an extender or substitute for diesel fuel. Sunflower seed contains ca. 40% oil. Each Btu used to produce the seed and process oil will return ca. 5.78 Btu. The price relationship per Btu of diesel to sunflower oil was 1∶4.00 in 1979. This ratio declined to 1∶1.80 in 1981. The on‐farm processing cost for 4800 gal varied from $2.82 to $4.33 per gallon for the three press sizes analyzed. Operating these presses 300 days annually reduced cost per gallon from $1.74 to $2.99.

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