Anybody can make biodiesel. It's easy, you can make it in your cooking 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 better for health.
If you make it from used cooking oil it's not only inexpensive however you'll be recycling a frustrating waste item. Best of all is the GREAT feeling of liberty, self-reliance and empowerment it will provide you. Here's how to do it-- whatever you need to understand.
Straight grease fuel (SVO) systems can be a tidy, efficient and affordable choice. 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 for veg-oil, along with fuel heating.
With the German Elsbett single-tank SVO system for instance you can use petro-diesel, biodiesel or SVO, in any combination. Just launch and go, stop and turn off, like any other vehicle. 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 begin the engine on ordinary petroleum diesel or biodiesel in one tank and then switch to SVO in the other tank when the veg-oil is hot enough, and switch back to petro- or biodiesel before you stop the engine, or you'll coke up the injectors.
More details on straight grease 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-- simply put it in and go. It also has much better cold-weather residential or commercial 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 many nations, including millions of miles on the roadway.
Biodiesel is a tidy, safe, ready-to-use, alternative fuel, whereas it's fair to state that many SVO systems are still speculative and require additional advancement.
On the other hand, biodiesel can be more expensive, 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 needs to be processed initially.
But the big and quickly growing worldwide band of homebrewers don't mind-- they make a supply every week or once a month and quickly get used to it. Many have actually been doing it for several years.
Anyway you need to process SVO too, particularly WVO (waste vegetable oil, used, cooked), which lots of people with SVO systems utilize since it's inexpensive or totally free for the taking. With WVO food particles and pollutants and water need to be gotten rid of, and it probably must be deacidified too. Biodieselers say, "If I'm going to need to do all that I may as well make biodiesel instead." But SVO types scoff at that-- it's much less processing than making biodiesel, they state. To each his own.
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