Anybody can make biodiesel. It's easy, you can make it in your kitchen area-- and it's BETTER than the petro-diesel fuel the huge oil business offer 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 just cheap however you'll be recycling a frustrating waste item. Most importantly is the GREAT sensation of liberty, independence and empowerment it will provide 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 need to modify the engine. The very best way is to fit a professional singletank SVO system with replacement injectors and glowplugs optimised for veg-oil, along with fuel heating.
With the German Elsbett SVO system for example you can use petro-diesel, biodiesel or SVO, in any mix. Just start up and go, stop and turn off, like any other automobile. 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 start 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 benefits 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 also has much better cold-weather homes than SVO (but not as good as petro-diesel-- see Using biodiesel in winter). Unlike SVO,
it's backed by many long-lasting tests in lots of nations, including countless miles on the roadway.
Biodiesel is a clean, safe, ready-to-use, alternative fuel, whereas it's reasonable to say that lots of SVO systems are still speculative and require additional development.
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 initially.
But the large and rapidly growing around the world band of homebrewers don't mind-- they make a supply weekly or when a month and quickly get used to it. Many have actually been doing it for many years.
Anyway you have to process SVO too, particularly WVO (waste veggie oil, utilized, prepared), which lots of people with SVO systems use since it's cheap or totally free for the taking. With WVO food particles and pollutants and water need to be removed, and it most likely needs to be deacidified too. Biodieselers say, "If I'm going to have to do all that I may also make biodiesel rather." But SVO types discount that-- it's much less processing than making biodiesel, they say. To each his own.
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