Anybody can make biodiesel. It's easy, 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 much better and last longer on your home-made fuel, and it's much cleaner-- better for the environment and better for health.
If you make it from used cooking oil it's not only cheap but you'll be recycling a bothersome waste item. Most importantly is the GREAT feeling of liberty, independence and empowerment it will offer you. Here's how to do it-- everything you require to know.
Straight grease fuel (SVO) systems can be a clean, reliable and economical option. Unlike biodiesel, with SVO you have to modify the engine. The finest way is to fit a professional singletank SVO system with replacement injectors and glowplugs optimised for veg-oil, as well as fuel heating.
With the German Elsbett single-tank SVO system for example you can use petro-diesel, biodiesel or SVO, in any combination. Just launch and go, stop and turn off, like any other car. Journey to Forever's Toyota van uses an Elsbett single-tank system. More
There are likewise two-tank SVO systems which pre-heat the oil to make it thinner. You need to begin the engine on regular 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 change back to petro- or biodiesel before you stop the engine, or you'll coke up the injectors.
More details on straight vegetable oil systems in my blog.
3. Biodiesel or SVO?
Biodiesel has some clear advantages over SVO: it works in any diesel, without any conversion or adjustments to the engine or the fuel system-- just put it in and go. It also has much better cold-weather residential or commercial properties than SVO (but not as great as petro-diesel-- see Using biodiesel in winter). Unlike SVO,
it's backed by lots of long-term tests in numerous nations, consisting of millions of miles on the roadway.
Biodiesel is a clean, safe, ready-to-use, alternative fuel, whereas it's reasonable to say that many SVO systems are still experimental and require additional 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 new oil or utilized oil (and depending upon where you live). And unlike SVO, it needs to be processed first.
But the big and rapidly growing worldwide band of homebrewers don't mind-- they make a supply each week or when a month and quickly get used to it. Many have been doing it for several years.
Anyway you have to process SVO too, especially WVO (waste grease, utilized, prepared), which many individuals with SVO systems use due to the fact that it's cheap or totally free for the taking. With WVO food particles and impurities and water should be gotten rid of, and it most likely must be deacidified too. Biodieselers say, "If I'm going to have to do all that I may too make biodiesel rather." But SVO types discount that-- it's much less processing than making biodiesel, they state. To each his own.
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