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 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 only inexpensive however you'll be recycling a problematic waste product. Best of all is the GREAT sensation of liberty, self-reliance and empowerment it will offer you. Here's how to do it-- whatever you require to understand.
Straight veggie oil fuel (SVO) systems can be a clean, effective and cost-effective option. 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, along with fuel heating.
With the German Elsbett single-tank SVO system for example you can use petro-diesel, biodiesel or SVO, in any mix. Just begin up and go, stop and switch off, like any other car. 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 need to start the engine on ordinary 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 site.
3. Biodiesel or SVO?
Biodiesel has some clear advantages over SVO: it works in any diesel, without any conversion or modifications to the engine or the fuel system-- simply put it in and go. It also has much better cold-weather residential or commercial than SVO (but not as great as petro-diesel-- see Using biodiesel in winter). Unlike SVO,
it's backed by lots of long-lasting tests in many nations, consisting of countless miles on the road.
Biodiesel is a clean, safe, ready-to-use, alternative fuel, whereas it's fair to say that numerous SVO systems are still speculative and require additional advancement.
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 brand-new oil or used oil (and depending upon where you live). And unlike SVO, it needs to be processed initially.
But the big and quickly growing around the world band of homebrewers don't mind-- they make a supply weekly or once a month and soon get utilized to it. Many have actually been doing it for many years.
Anyway you need to process SVO too, particularly WVO (waste vegetable oil, used, prepared), which many individuals with SVO systems utilize because it's inexpensive or totally free for the taking. With WVO food particles and pollutants and water need to be removed, and it probably needs to be deacidified too. Biodieselers say, "If I'm going to have to do all that I may also 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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