Anybody can make biodiesel. It's simple, 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-- better for the environment and better for health.
If you make it from used cooking oil it's not only inexpensive but you'll be recycling a problematic waste item. Best of all is the GREAT feeling of liberty, independence and empowerment it will give you. Here's how to do it-- everything you need to know.
fuel (SVO) systems can be a tidy, effective and cost-effective choice. Unlike biodiesel, with SVO you have to customize the engine. The best method 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 combination. Just start up 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 normal petroleum diesel or biodiesel in one tank and then 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 information on straight grease systems in my blog.
3. Biodiesel or SVO?
Biodiesel has some clear advantages over SVO: it works in any diesel, with no conversion or adjustments to the engine or the fuel system-- simply put it in and go. It likewise has much better cold-weather properties than SVO (however not as great as petro-diesel-- see Using biodiesel in winter season). Unlike SVO,
it's backed by lots of long-lasting tests in lots of nations, consisting of millions of miles on the road.
Biodiesel is a tidy, safe, ready-to-use, alternative fuel, whereas it's fair to say that lots of SVO systems are still experimental and need 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 brand-new oil or utilized oil (and depending upon where you live). And unlike SVO, it needs to be processed first.
But the large and rapidly growing worldwide band of homebrewers don't mind-- they make a supply each week or when a month and quickly get utilized to it. Many have been doing it for many years.
Anyway you have to process SVO too, particularly WVO (waste veggie oil, used, prepared), which lots of people with SVO systems utilize since 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 most likely must be deacidified too. Biodieselers say, "If I'm going to need to do all that I might 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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