Make your own Biodiesel Part 2

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 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– better for the and much better for health.

If you make it from used cooking oil it’s not just cheap however you’ll be recycling a bothersome waste item. Best of all is the GREAT feeling of flexibility, self-reliance and empowerment it will provide you. Here’s how to do it– everything you need to understand.

Straight veggie oil fuel (SVO) systems can be a tidy, efficient and affordable alternative. Unlike biodiesel, with SVO you need to modify the engine. The very best way 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 instance you can use petro-diesel, biodiesel or SVO, in any mix. Just launch and go, stop and turn 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 need to start the engine on regular 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 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 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– simply put it in and go. It likewise has much better cold-weather homes than SVO (however not as good as petro-diesel– see Using biodiesel in winter). Unlike SVO,

it’s backed by lots of long-term tests in numerous nations, including millions of miles on the roadway.

Biodiesel is a clean, safe, ready-to-use, alternative fuel, whereas it’s reasonable to say that numerous SVO systems are still experimental and need more development.

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 has to be processed initially.

But the large and quickly growing worldwide band of homebrewers do not mind– they make a supply each week or when a month and soon get used to it. Many have been doing it for years.

Anyway you have to process SVO too, especially WVO (waste grease, utilized, cooked), which lots of people with SVO systems utilize due to the fact that it’s cheap or free for the taking. With WVO food particles and pollutants and water need to be removed, and it probably ought to be deacidified too. Biodieselers state, “If I’m going to have to do all that I may as well make biodiesel instead.” But SVO types discount that– it’s much less processing than making biodiesel, they state. To each his own.