Anybody can make biodiesel. It's simple, you can make it in your cooking area-- and it's BETTER than the petro-diesel fuel the big oil companies offer you. Your diesel motor will run better and last longer on your home-made fuel, and it's much cleaner-- much better for the environment and better for health.
If you make it from used cooking oil it's not just inexpensive however you'll be recycling a frustrating waste product. Best of all is the GREAT feeling of freedom, self-reliance and empowerment it will offer you. Here's how to do it-- everything you need to understand.
Straight vegetable oil fuel (SVO) systems can be a tidy, effective and affordable option. Unlike biodiesel, with SVO you need to customize the engine. The very best method is to fit a professional singletank SVO system with replacement injectors and glowplugs optimised for veg-oil, in addition to fuel heating.
With the German Elsbett single-tank SVO system for instance you can utilize petro-diesel, biodiesel or SVO, in any mix. Just begin up and go, stop and switch off, like any other automobile. Journey to Forever's Toyota TownAce van utilizes an Elsbett single-tank system. More
There are also two-tank SVO systems which pre-heat the oil to make it thinner. You need to start the engine on common petroleum diesel or biodiesel in one tank and after that switch to SVO in the other tank when the veg-oil is hot enough, and switch back to petro- or biodiesel before you stop the engine, or you'll coke up the injectors.
More information on straight veggie oil systems in my blog.
3. Biodiesel or SVO?
Biodiesel has some clear advantages over SVO: it operates in any diesel, with no conversion or modifications to the engine or the fuel system-- simply put it in and go. It also has better cold-weather residential or commercial properties than SVO (but not as excellent as see Using biodiesel in winter season). Unlike SVO,
it's backed by numerous long-lasting tests in lots of nations, including countless miles on the road.
Biodiesel is a clean, safe, ready-to-use, alternative fuel, whereas it's fair to state that numerous SVO systems are still speculative and need more advancement.
On the other hand, biodiesel can be more pricey, depending how much you make, what you make it from and whether you're comparing it with brand-new oil or utilized oil (and depending upon where you live). And unlike SVO, it needs to be processed initially.
But the big and rapidly growing around the world band of homebrewers do not mind-- they make a supply every week or when a month and quickly get used to it. Many have been doing it for years.
Anyway you need to process SVO too, particularly WVO (waste vegetable oil, utilized, cooked), which lots of people with SVO systems use since it's low-cost or totally free for the taking. With WVO food particles and impurities and water must be gotten rid of, and it probably must be deacidified too. Biodieselers say, "If I'm going to need to do all that I might too make biodiesel rather." But SVO types discount that-- it's much less processing than making biodiesel, they say. To each his own.
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