Anybody can make biodiesel. It's easy, you can make it in your kitchen-- and it's BETTER than the petro-diesel fuel the big oil companies sell you. Your diesel motor will run much better and last longer on your home-made fuel, and it's much cleaner-- much better for the environment and much better for health.
If you make it from utilized cooking oil it's not only low-cost but you'll be recycling a bothersome waste item. Best of all is the GREAT sensation of liberty, independence and empowerment it will offer you. Here's how to do it-- everything you need to know.
Straight vegetable oil fuel (SVO) systems can be a clean, effective and cost-effective option. Unlike biodiesel, with SVO you have to modify the engine. The best way 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 example you can use petro-diesel, biodiesel or SVO, in any combination. Just launch and go, stop and change off, like any other vehicle. Journey to Forever's Toyota TownAce 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 have to start the engine on normal petroleum diesel or biodiesel in one tank and then 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 details on straight grease systems in my blog.
3. Biodiesel or SVO?
Biodiesel has some clear advantages over SVO: it operates in any diesel, with no conversion or to the engine or the fuel system-- simply put it in and go. It likewise has much better cold-weather residential or commercial properties than SVO (but not as good as petro-diesel-- see Using biodiesel in winter season). Unlike SVO,
it's backed by numerous long-term tests in numerous nations, including millions of miles on the roadway.
Biodiesel is a clean, safe, ready-to-use, alternative fuel, whereas it's fair to say that many SVO systems are still speculative and require further advancement.
On the other hand, biodiesel can be more pricey, depending just how much you make, what you make it from and whether you're comparing it with brand-new oil or used oil (and depending on where you live). And unlike SVO, it has actually to be processed initially.
But the large and rapidly growing around the world band of homebrewers don't mind-- they make a supply every week or once a month and soon get used to it. Many have been doing it for several years.
Anyway you need to process SVO too, especially WVO (waste veggie oil, utilized, cooked), which many individuals with SVO systems use because it's cheap or complimentary for the taking. With WVO food particles and impurities and water should be gotten rid of, and it most likely needs to be deacidified too. Biodieselers say, "If I'm going to have to do all that I may too make biodiesel rather." But SVO types belittle that-- it's much less processing than making biodiesel, they state. To each his own.
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