Anybody can make biodiesel. It's easy, you can make it in your kitchen area-- 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 better for health.
If you make it from used cooking oil it's not just inexpensive however you'll be recycling a troublesome waste product. Best of all is the GREAT sensation of liberty, independence and empowerment it will offer you. Here's how to do it-- everything you require to know.
Straight grease fuel (SVO) systems can be a clean, effective and economical choice. 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, as well as 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 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 begin the engine on regular 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 switch 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.
3. Biodiesel or SVO?
Biodiesel has some clear advantages over SVO: it operates in any diesel, without any conversion or adjustments to the engine or the fuel system-- just put it in and go. It also has much better cold-weather residential or commercial properties than SVO (however not as good as petro-diesel-- see Using biodiesel in winter season). Unlike SVO,
it's backed by lots of in numerous nations, including millions of miles on the road.
Biodiesel is a clean, safe, ready-to-use, alternative fuel, whereas it's reasonable to state that lots of SVO systems are still speculative and require additional development.
On the other hand, biodiesel can be more expensive, depending just how much you make, what you make it from and whether you're comparing it with brand-new oil or used oil (and depending on where you live). And unlike SVO, it needs to be processed first.
But the large and quickly growing around the world band of homebrewers do not mind-- they make a supply every week or when a month and soon get utilized to it. Many have actually been doing it for many years.
Anyway you need to process SVO too, particularly WVO (waste grease, utilized, prepared), which many individuals with SVO systems use due to the fact that it's inexpensive or totally free for the taking. With WVO food particles and pollutants and water must be eliminated, and it most likely needs to be deacidified too. Biodieselers state, "If I'm going to need to do all that I may also make biodiesel instead." But SVO types belittle that-- it's much less processing than making biodiesel, they state. To each his own.
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