Anybody can make biodiesel. It's simple, you can make it in your kitchen-- and it's BETTER than the petro-diesel fuel the huge oil you. Your diesel motor will run 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 utilized cooking oil it's not only low-cost but you'll be recycling a frustrating waste product. Best of all is the GREAT sensation of liberty, independence and empowerment it will offer you. Here's how to do it-- whatever you need 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 mix. Just start up and go, stop and switch off, like any other vehicle. 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 need to begin the engine on common petroleum diesel or biodiesel in one tank and after that change 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 grease systems in my blog.
3. Biodiesel or SVO?
Biodiesel has some clear advantages over SVO: it operates in any diesel, without any conversion or modifications to the engine or the fuel system-- simply put it in and go. It also has much better cold-weather properties than SVO (however not as excellent as petro-diesel-- see Using biodiesel in winter season). Unlike SVO,
it's backed by many long-term tests in many countries, consisting of countless miles on the roadway.
Biodiesel is a tidy, safe, ready-to-use, alternative fuel, whereas it's fair to state that numerous SVO systems are still experimental and require further development.
On the other hand, biodiesel can be more expensive, depending just how much you make, what you make it from and whether you're comparing it with brand-new oil or utilized oil (and depending on 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 once a month and soon get used to it. Many have actually been doing it for many years.
Anyway you have to process SVO too, specifically WVO (waste vegetable oil, utilized, cooked), which lots of people with SVO systems use due to the fact that it's inexpensive or free for the taking. With WVO food particles and pollutants and water should be removed, and it most likely must be deacidified too. Biodieselers say, "If I'm going to need to do all that I may too make biodiesel instead." But SVO types scoff at that-- it's much less processing than making biodiesel, they say. To each his own.
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