Anybody can make biodiesel. It's easy, you can make it in your kitchen-- and it's BETTER than the petro-diesel fuel the huge oil companies offer you. Your diesel motor will run better and last longer on your fuel, and it's much cleaner-- much better for the environment and better for health.
If you make it from utilized cooking oil it's not only cheap however you'll be recycling a bothersome waste product. Most importantly is the GREAT feeling of freedom, self-reliance and empowerment it will give you. Here's how to do it-- everything you need to know.
Straight vegetable oil fuel (SVO) systems can be a tidy, effective and affordable option. Unlike biodiesel, with SVO you have to customize 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 utilize petro-diesel, biodiesel or SVO, in any combination. Just launch and go, stop and change off, like any other automobile. Journey to Forever's Toyota TownAce van utilizes 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 begin the engine on common 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 details on straight veggie 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 homes than SVO (however not as good as petro-diesel-- see Using biodiesel in winter). Unlike SVO,
it's backed by numerous long-term tests in many nations, consisting of millions of miles on the roadway.
Biodiesel is a tidy, safe, ready-to-use, alternative fuel, whereas it's reasonable to say that numerous SVO systems are still experimental and require additional development.
On the other hand, biodiesel can be more costly, depending 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 to be processed initially.
But the large and quickly growing around the world band of homebrewers do not mind-- they make a supply every week or as soon as a month and quickly get utilized to it. Many have actually been doing it for several years.
Anyway you have to process SVO too, especially WVO (waste grease, used, prepared), which lots of people with SVO systems utilize because it's low-cost or totally free for the taking. With WVO food particles and pollutants and water need to be gotten rid of, and it probably needs to be deacidified too. Biodieselers state, "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 state. To each his own.
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