Anybody can make biodiesel. It's simple, you can make it in your cooking area-- and it's BETTER than the petro-diesel fuel the big oil companies sell 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 utilized cooking oil it's not only low-cost but you'll be recycling a frustrating waste product. Best of all is the GREAT sensation of freedom, independence and empowerment it will give you. Here's how to do it-- everything you need to understand.
Straight grease fuel (SVO) systems can be a tidy, reliable and economical choice. Unlike biodiesel, with SVO you have to modify the engine. The 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 combination. Just launch 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 also two-tank SVO systems which pre-heat the oil to make it thinner. You have to start the engine on normal petroleum diesel or biodiesel in one tank and after that switch 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 adjustments to the engine or the fuel system-- simply put it in and go. It also has much better cold-weather 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 many countries, including countless miles on the road.
Biodiesel is a tidy, safe, ready-to-use, alternative fuel, whereas it's reasonable to say that lots of SVO systems are still experimental and need more advancement.
On the other hand, biodiesel can be more pricey, depending how much you make, what you make it from and whether you're it with new oil or used oil (and depending on where you live). And unlike SVO, it needs to be processed first.
But the big and quickly growing worldwide band of homebrewers don't mind-- they make a supply weekly or once a month and soon get used to it. Many have actually been doing it for many years.
Anyway you have to process SVO too, especially WVO (waste grease, utilized, cooked), which numerous individuals with SVO systems use due to the fact that it's cheap or totally free for the taking. With WVO food particles and impurities and water should be eliminated, and it most likely should be deacidified too. Biodieselers state, "If I'm going to have to do all that I might as well make biodiesel instead." But SVO types belittle that-- it's much less processing than making biodiesel, they say. To each his own.
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