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 business 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 cheap however you'll be recycling a problematic waste item. Best of all is the GREAT feeling of flexibility, independence 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 clean, effective and economical choice. Unlike biodiesel, with SVO you need to modify 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 use petro-diesel, biodiesel or SVO, in any combination. Just launch and go, stop and switch 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 start the engine on regular petroleum diesel or in one tank and then 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 details on straight grease systems in my blog site.
3. Biodiesel or SVO?
Biodiesel has some clear advantages over SVO: it operates in any diesel, with no conversion or adjustments to the engine or the fuel system-- just put it in and go. It likewise has much better cold-weather properties than SVO (but not as great as petro-diesel-- see Using biodiesel in winter). Unlike SVO,
it's backed by many long-term tests in lots of nations, including millions of 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 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 comparing it with new oil or utilized oil (and depending upon where you live). And unlike SVO, it has to be processed initially.
But the large and rapidly growing worldwide band of homebrewers do not mind-- they make a supply each week or when a month and soon get utilized to it. Many have been doing it for many years.
Anyway you need to process SVO too, especially WVO (waste grease, utilized, prepared), which lots of people with SVO systems use because it's low-cost or totally free for the taking. With WVO food particles and impurities and water need to be eliminated, and it probably needs to be deacidified too. Biodieselers state, "If I'm going to have to do all that I may also 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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