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 business sell you. Your diesel motor will run 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 only cheap however you'll be recycling a bothersome waste product. Most importantly is the GREAT feeling of freedom, independence and empowerment it will provide you. Here's how to do it-- everything you need to understand.
Straight veggie oil fuel (SVO) systems can be a clean, effective and cost-effective alternative. Unlike biodiesel, with SVO you need to customize the engine. The very best way is to fit a professional singletank SVO system with replacement injectors and glowplugs optimised for veg-oil, in addition to fuel heating.
With the German Elsbett single-tank SVO system for example you can utilize petro-diesel, biodiesel or SVO, in any mix. Just launch and go, stop and turn off, like any other cars and truck. 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 need to start the engine on normal 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 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 benefits over SVO: it operates in any diesel, with no conversion or adjustments to the engine or the fuel system-- just put it in and go. It also has better cold-weather homes than SVO (however not as excellent as petro-diesel-- see Using biodiesel in winter). Unlike SVO,
it's backed by lots of long-term tests in lots of countries, including countless miles on the road.
Biodiesel is a clean, safe, ready-to-use, alternative fuel, whereas it's reasonable to state that many SVO systems are still experimental and need 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 it with new oil or used oil (and depending upon where you live). And unlike SVO, it has actually to be processed initially.
But the large and quickly growing around the world band of homebrewers do not mind-- they make a supply each week or once a month and soon get utilized to it. Many have been doing it for several years.
Anyway you have to process SVO too, particularly WVO (waste grease, used, prepared), which many people with SVO systems utilize since it's cheap or free for the taking. With WVO food particles and impurities and water need to be removed, and it most likely needs to be deacidified too. Biodieselers state, "If I'm going to need to do all that I might as well make biodiesel rather." But SVO types scoff at that-- it's much less processing than making biodiesel, they state. To each his own.
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