Anybody can make biodiesel. It's simple, you can make it in your kitchen area-- and it's BETTER than the petro-diesel fuel the huge oil business 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 used cooking oil it's not just cheap but you'll be recycling a bothersome waste product. Best of all is the GREAT feeling of liberty, independence and empowerment it will offer you. Here's how to do it-- whatever you require to know.
Straight vegetable oil fuel (SVO) systems can be a tidy, effective and economical choice. Unlike biodiesel, with SVO you need to modify the engine. The best 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 SVO system for instance you can utilize petro-diesel, biodiesel or SVO, in any combination. Just launch and go, stop and switch off, like any other cars and truck. Journey to Forever's Toyota TownAce van uses an Elsbett single-tank system. More
There are also two-tank SVO systems which pre-heat the oil to make it thinner. You have to begin 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 change 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 works in any diesel, without any conversion or modifications to the engine or the fuel system-- simply put it in and go. It likewise has better cold-weather homes than SVO (but not as great as petro-diesel-- see Using biodiesel in winter). Unlike SVO,
it's backed by many long-term tests in lots of countries, consisting of countless miles on the roadway.
Biodiesel is a tidy, safe, ready-to-use, alternative fuel, whereas it's fair to say that many SVO systems are still experimental and require more advancement.
On the other hand, biodiesel can be more expensive, depending how much you make, what you make it from and whether you're comparing it with new oil or used oil (and depending on where you live). And unlike SVO, it has to be processed initially.
But the big and rapidly growing around the world band of homebrewers do not mind-- they make a supply each week or as soon as a month and quickly get used to it. Many have actually been doing it for years.
Anyway you need to process SVO too, particularly WVO (waste grease, used, prepared), which many individuals with SVO systems utilize since it's low-cost or totally free for the taking. With WVO food particles and impurities and water need to be removed, and it probably should be deacidified too. Biodieselers say, "If I'm going to have to do all that I may as well make biodiesel instead." But SVO types discount that-- it's much less processing than making biodiesel, they say. To each his own.
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