- Elsbett
The Elsbett engine is a design of
diesel engine designed to run onvegetable oil . It's also known as Elko engine and was invented byLudwig Elsbett .The design attempts to limit the loss of energy as heat by a variety of design techniques; as a useful side effect, no water cooling of the engine block is required, though an oil cooler is needed.
The technology was adopted by some companies in the former Soviet Union and a major project by Grupo Garavello, which went bankrupt by their other business activities, was undertaken in
Brazil . Although work continues on the dedicated multi-fuel Elsbett engine, the company now also sells conversion kits for existing diesel engines to run on vegetable oil.Elsbett AG is based in
Thalmaessing ,Bavaria ,Germany .Note: Vegetable oil should not be confused with
Biodiesel which is chemically altered vegetable oil.External links
* [http://www.elsbett-museum.de/index.html Website (german) Elsbett-museum]
* [http://www.elsbett.com/engl/index.htm Elsbett]
* [http://www.elsbett.com.br Elsbett - Brasil]
* [http://www.elsbett.com/fr/technologie-de-la-conversion-elsbett/fondements.html Elsbett Motor]( To do this, you will find a lot of useful information in the German (Deutsch) version of this article.)
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