Anybody can make biodiesel. It's easy, you can make it in your kitchen-- and it's BETTER than the petro-diesel fuel the huge oil companies offer you. Your diesel motor will run much 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 used cooking oil it's not just inexpensive however you'll be recycling a bothersome waste product. Most importantly is the GREAT feeling of freedom, independence and empowerment it will give you. Here's how to do it-- whatever you need to know.
Straight grease fuel (SVO) systems can be a clean, efficient and economical alternative. Unlike biodiesel, with SVO you need to modify the engine. The finest way is to fit an expert singletank SVO system with replacement injectors and 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 combination. Just launch and go, stop and switch off, like any other cars and truck. 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 have to begin the engine on normal 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.
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3. Biodiesel or SVO?
Biodiesel has some clear advantages over SVO: it operates in any diesel, with no conversion or modifications to the engine or the fuel system-- just put it in and go. It also has better cold-weather homes than SVO (however not as excellent as petro-diesel-- see Using biodiesel in winter season). Unlike SVO,
it's backed by lots of long-term tests in many nations, consisting of millions of miles on the roadway.
Biodiesel is a tidy, safe, ready-to-use, alternative fuel, whereas it's fair to say that many SVO systems are still experimental and require more advancement.
On the other hand, biodiesel can be more pricey, 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 upon where you live). And unlike SVO, it needs to be processed initially.
But the big and rapidly growing around the world band of homebrewers don't mind-- they make a supply each week or when a month and quickly get used to it. Many have actually been doing it for several years.
Anyway you need to process SVO too, specifically WVO (waste grease, utilized, cooked), which numerous people with SVO systems use since it's low-cost or complimentary for the taking. With WVO food particles and pollutants and water need to be removed, and it probably must be deacidified too. Biodieselers say, "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 say. To each his own.
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