Make your own Biodiesel Part 2

Anybody can make biodiesel. It’s easy, you can make it in your kitchen– and it’s BETTER than the petro-diesel fuel the big 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 much better for health.

If you make it from utilized cooking oil it’s not only inexpensive but you’ll be recycling a frustrating waste product. Best of all is the GREAT sensation of liberty, independence and empowerment it will offer you. Here’s how to do it– whatever you need to understand.

Straight veggie oil fuel (SVO) systems can be a clean, effective and cost-effective alternative. Unlike biodiesel, with SVO you need to customize the engine. The very best way is to fit an expert singletank SVO system with replacement injectors and glowplugs optimised for veg-oil, as well as 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 car. Journey to Forever’s Toyota TownAce van uses 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 start the engine on common 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 info 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, with no conversion or adjustments to the engine or the fuel system– simply put it in and go. It likewise has much better cold-weather residential or commercial properties than SVO (however not as excellent as petro-diesel– see Using biodiesel in winter season). Unlike SVO,

it’s backed by 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 numerous SVO systems are still speculative and need additional development.

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 utilized oil (and depending on where you live). And unlike SVO, it needs to be processed first.

But the big and quickly growing around the world band of homebrewers do not mind– they make a supply each week or once a month and soon get utilized to it. Many have actually been doing it for many years.

Anyway you have to process SVO too, particularly WVO (waste grease, used, cooked), which lots of people with SVO systems use since it’s low-cost or free for the taking. With WVO food particles and impurities and water need to be gotten rid of, and it probably ought to be deacidified too. Biodieselers say, “If I’m going to have to do all that I might too make biodiesel rather.” But SVO types belittle that– it’s much less processing than making biodiesel, they say. To each his own.