Make your own Biodiesel Part 2

Anybody can make biodiesel. It’s easy, you can make it in your cooking area– and it’s BETTER than the petro-diesel fuel the huge oil business sell 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 utilized cooking oil it’s not only low-cost but you’ll be recycling a frustrating waste item. Most importantly is the GREAT sensation of freedom, self-reliance and empowerment it will give you. Here’s how to do it– whatever you need to know.

Straight vegetable oil fuel (SVO) systems can be a clean, effective and cost-effective choice. Unlike biodiesel, with SVO you need to customize the engine. The 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 example you can utilize petro-diesel, biodiesel or SVO, in any mix. Just start up and go, stop and switch off, like any other vehicle. Journey to Forever’s Toyota TownAce van utilizes an Elsbett single-tank system. More

There are likewise two-tank SVO systems which pre-heat the oil to make it thinner. You need to begin the engine on ordinary 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.

More information on straight grease systems in my blog site.

3. Biodiesel or SVO?

Biodiesel has some clear advantages 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 likewise has better cold-weather properties than SVO (but 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, consisting of countless miles on the road.

Biodiesel is a tidy, safe, ready-to-use, alternative fuel, whereas it’s reasonable to say that many SVO systems are still speculative and require further 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 used oil (and depending on where you live). And unlike SVO, it has to be processed first.

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

Anyway you have to process SVO too, particularly WVO (waste veggie oil, used, cooked), which lots of people with SVO systems use because it’s inexpensive or complimentary for the taking. With WVO food particles and pollutants and water need to be removed, and it most likely ought to be deacidified too. Biodieselers state, “If I’m going to have to do all that I might also make biodiesel rather.” But SVO types scoff at that– it’s much less processing than making biodiesel, they state. To each his own.