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 business offer 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 much better for health.
If you make it from used cooking oil it's not just inexpensive but you'll be recycling a bothersome waste item. Most importantly is the GREAT sensation of flexibility, self-reliance and empowerment it will provide you. Here's how to do it-- whatever you require to understand.
Straight veggie oil fuel (SVO) systems can be a tidy, effective and economical alternative. Unlike biodiesel, with SVO you have to customize the engine. The very best method is to fit a professional singletank SVO system with replacement injectors and glowplugs optimised for veg-oil, in addition to fuel heating.
With the German Elsbett single-tank SVO system for example you can use petro-diesel, biodiesel or SVO, in any mix. Just start up and go, stop and switch off, like any other automobile. Journey to Forever's Toyota TownAce van uses 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 common petroleum diesel or biodiesel 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 info on straight veggie oil systems in my blog.
3. Biodiesel or SVO?
has some clear benefits over SVO: it works in any diesel, with no conversion or adjustments to the engine or the fuel system-- just put it in and go. It also has better cold-weather homes than SVO (but not as good as petro-diesel-- see Using biodiesel in winter). Unlike SVO,
it's backed by many long-lasting tests in many nations, consisting of countless miles on the road.
Biodiesel is a tidy, safe, ready-to-use, alternative fuel, whereas it's reasonable to state that many SVO systems are still experimental and require further development.
On the other hand, biodiesel can be more costly, depending 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 do not mind-- they make a supply weekly or as soon as 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 vegetable oil, used, cooked), which many individuals with SVO systems use because it's inexpensive or totally free for the taking. With WVO food particles and impurities and water must be gotten rid of, and it probably should be deacidified too. Biodieselers state, "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.
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