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 companies 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 better for health.
If you make it from used cooking oil it's not just low-cost but you'll be recycling a troublesome waste product. Best of all is the GREAT feeling of liberty, independence and empowerment it will provide you. Here's how to do it-- everything you need to know.
Straight veggie oil fuel (SVO) systems can be a tidy, efficient and economical alternative. Unlike biodiesel, with SVO you have to modify the engine. The best method 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 single-tank SVO system for circumstances you can utilize petro-diesel, biodiesel or SVO, in any combination. Just start up and go, stop and turn off, like any other cars and truck. 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 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 site.
3. Biodiesel or SVO?
Biodiesel has some clear benefits over SVO: it works 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 residential or commercial properties than SVO (however not as good as petro-diesel-- see Using biodiesel in winter season). Unlike SVO,
it's backed by many long-lasting tests in lots of countries, consisting of countless miles on the road.
Biodiesel is a tidy, safe, ready-to-use, alternative fuel, whereas it's reasonable to say that numerous SVO systems are still speculative and need more development.
On the other hand, biodiesel can be more pricey, 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 on where you live). And unlike SVO, it has actually to be processed first.
But the big and rapidly growing around the world band of homebrewers do not mind-- they make a supply weekly or when a month and quickly get used to it. Many have actually been doing it for years.
Anyway you need to process SVO too, specifically WVO (waste grease, utilized, cooked), which many people with SVO systems use due to the fact that it's cheap or totally free for the taking. With WVO food particles and pollutants and water should be gotten rid of, and it probably ought to be deacidified too. Biodieselers state, "If I'm going to need to do all that I might also make biodiesel rather." But SVO types scoff at that-- it's much less than making biodiesel, they state. To each his own.
1
Make your own Biodiesel Part 2
alejandraelizo edited this page 7 days ago