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 companies sell you. Your diesel motor will run 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 just cheap but you'll be recycling a problematic waste product. Best of all is the GREAT feeling of liberty, independence and empowerment it will provide you. Here's how to do it-- whatever you require to understand.
Straight grease fuel (SVO) systems can be a tidy, efficient and . Unlike biodiesel, with SVO you have to modify the engine. The finest way is to fit an expert singletank SVO system with replacement injectors and glowplugs optimised for veg-oil, along with fuel heating.
With the German Elsbett single-tank SVO system for example you can utilize petro-diesel, biodiesel or SVO, in any mix. Just launch and go, stop and turn off, like any other vehicle. Journey to Forever's Toyota TownAce van utilizes 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 ordinary petroleum diesel or biodiesel in one tank and then 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 details on straight grease systems in my blog site.
3. Biodiesel or SVO?
Biodiesel has some clear benefits over SVO: it operates in any diesel, without any conversion or adjustments to the engine or the fuel system-- simply put it in and go. It likewise has better cold-weather homes than SVO (however not as great as petro-diesel-- see Using biodiesel in winter). Unlike SVO,
it's backed by numerous long-term tests in lots of countries, consisting of countless miles on the road.
Biodiesel is a clean, safe, ready-to-use, alternative fuel, whereas it's reasonable to state that many SVO systems are still speculative and need additional 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 brand-new oil or used oil (and depending upon where you live). And unlike SVO, it has actually to be processed initially.
But the big and quickly growing around the world band of homebrewers don't mind-- they make a supply weekly or when a month and quickly get used to it. Many have actually been doing it for many years.
Anyway you have to process SVO too, specifically WVO (waste grease, utilized, cooked), which lots of people with SVO systems use since it's cheap or free for the taking. With WVO food particles and pollutants and water must be eliminated, and it probably should be deacidified too. Biodieselers say, "If I'm going to have 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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