Anybody can make biodiesel. It's simple, you can make it in your kitchen-- and it's BETTER than the petro-diesel fuel the huge oil companies offer 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 used cooking oil it's not only low-cost but you'll be recycling a problematic waste product. Most importantly is the GREAT feeling of liberty, self-reliance and empowerment it will give you. Here's how to do it-- everything you need to know.
Straight grease fuel (SVO) systems can be a clean, efficient and affordable choice. Unlike biodiesel, with SVO you have 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, along with fuel heating.
With the German Elsbett single-tank SVO system for instance you can utilize petro-diesel, biodiesel or SVO, in any mix. Just start up and go, stop and turn off, like any other automobile. Journey to Forever's Toyota TownAce van utilizes 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 begin the engine on ordinary 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 details on straight grease systems in my blog site.
3. Biodiesel or SVO?
Biodiesel has some clear advantages over SVO: it works in any diesel, with no conversion or modifications to the engine or the fuel system-- just put it in and go. It likewise has better cold-weather properties than SVO (but not as excellent as petro-diesel-- see Using biodiesel in winter season). Unlike SVO,
it's backed by lots of long-lasting tests in numerous nations, consisting of countless miles on the road.
Biodiesel is a clean, safe, ready-to-use, alternative fuel, whereas it's fair to state that lots of are still experimental and need further advancement.
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 utilized oil (and depending on where you live). And unlike SVO, it needs to be processed first.
But the large and quickly growing around the world band of homebrewers don't mind-- they make a supply every week or as soon as a month and quickly get used to it. Many have been doing it for several years.
Anyway you have to process SVO too, especially WVO (waste grease, used, prepared), which many individuals with SVO systems use since it's low-cost or free for the taking. With WVO food particles and pollutants and water should be eliminated, and it probably ought to be deacidified too. Biodieselers state, "If I'm going to need to do all that I might too 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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