Make your own Biodiesel Part 2

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 business offer you. Your diesel motor will run 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 utilized cooking oil it’s not just inexpensive however you’ll be recycling a frustrating 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 require to know.

Straight grease fuel (SVO) systems can be a tidy, effective and affordable alternative. Unlike biodiesel, with SVO you need to customize the engine. The best way is to fit an expert 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 begin up and go, stop and switch off, like any other car. 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 begin the engine on ordinary petroleum diesel or biodiesel in one tank and then change to SVO in the other tank when the 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 vegetable oil 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 lots of nations, including countless miles on the road.

Biodiesel is a clean, safe, ready-to-use, alternative fuel, whereas it’s reasonable to state that many SVO systems are still speculative and require more advancement.

On the other hand, biodiesel can be more costly, 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 initially.

But the large and quickly growing worldwide band of homebrewers do not mind– they make a supply weekly or as soon as a month and quickly get utilized to it. Many have actually been doing it for many years.

Anyway you need to process SVO too, specifically WVO (waste vegetable oil, utilized, prepared), which many people with SVO systems utilize because it’s low-cost or complimentary for the taking. With WVO food particles and impurities and water should be gotten rid of, and it most likely ought to be deacidified too. Biodieselers say, “If I’m going to need to do all that I might also make biodiesel rather.” But SVO types discount that– it’s much less processing than making biodiesel, they say. To each his own.