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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.