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 better for health.

If you make it from used cooking oil it’s not just cheap however you’ll be recycling a troublesome waste item. Most importantly is the GREAT sensation of liberty, independence and empowerment it will provide you. Here’s how to do it– everything you need to understand.

Straight vegetable oil fuel (SVO) systems can be a clean, effective and economical alternative. Unlike biodiesel, with SVO you have 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, in addition to fuel heating.

With the German Elsbett single-tank SVO system for example you can utilize petro-diesel, biodiesel or SVO, in any combination. Just launch and go, stop and change 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 the oil to make it thinner. You have to begin the engine on ordinary 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 change back to petro- or biodiesel before you stop the engine, or you’ll coke up the injectors.

More info on straight veggie oil 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 modifications to the engine or the fuel system– simply put it in and go. It also has much better cold-weather properties than SVO (but not as excellent as petro-diesel– see Using biodiesel in winter season). Unlike SVO,

it’s backed by lots of long-lasting tests in lots of nations, consisting of 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 speculative and need further advancement.

On the other hand, biodiesel can be more expensive, depending how much you make, what you make it from and whether you’re comparing it with new oil or utilized oil (and depending upon where you live). And unlike SVO, it needs to be processed initially.

But the large and rapidly growing around the world band of homebrewers don’t mind– they make a supply every week or as soon as a month and soon get utilized to it. Many have been doing it for several years.

Anyway you have to process SVO too, particularly WVO (waste veggie oil, utilized, prepared), which many individuals with SVO systems use because it’s cheap or free for the taking. With WVO food particles and impurities and water must be gotten rid of, 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 rather.” But SVO types scoff at that– it’s much less processing than making biodiesel, they state. To each his own.