Anybody can make biodiesel. It's simple, 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 better and last longer on your home-made fuel, and it's much cleaner-- better for the environment and much better for health.
If you make it from utilized cooking oil it's not just low-cost but you'll be recycling a troublesome waste item. Best of all is the GREAT feeling of flexibility, self-reliance and empowerment it will offer you. Here's how to do it-- everything you need to understand.
Straight veggie oil fuel (SVO) systems can be a tidy, reliable and affordable alternative. Unlike biodiesel, with SVO you have to modify the engine. The very best way is to fit an expert 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 instance you can use petro-diesel, or SVO, in any mix. Just start up and go, stop and change off, like any other cars and truck. 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 have 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 info on straight vegetable 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 likewise has better cold-weather properties than SVO (however not as good as petro-diesel-- see Using biodiesel in winter season). Unlike SVO,
it's backed by many long-term tests in numerous nations, including countless miles on the road.
Biodiesel is a clean, safe, ready-to-use, alternative fuel, whereas it's fair to say that numerous SVO systems are still speculative and require additional development.
On the other hand, biodiesel can be more costly, depending just how much you make, what you make it from and whether you're comparing it with new oil or used oil (and depending upon where you live). And unlike SVO, it has actually to be processed first.
But the big and quickly growing around the world band of homebrewers don't mind-- they make a supply every 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, used, prepared), which numerous people with SVO systems use because it's cheap or free for the taking. With WVO food particles and impurities and water should be removed, and it probably must be deacidified too. Biodieselers say, "If I'm going to have to do all that I might also make biodiesel instead." But SVO types discount that-- it's much less processing than making biodiesel, they state. To each his own.
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