Make your own Biodiesel Part 2

Anybody can make biodiesel. It’s simple, you can make it in your kitchen area– and it’s BETTER than the petro-diesel fuel the big oil companies offer you. Your diesel motor will run better and last longer on your home-made fuel, and it’s much cleaner– better for the and better for health.

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

Straight grease fuel (SVO) systems can be a clean, efficient and economical choice. Unlike biodiesel, with SVO you need to customize 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 example you can use petro-diesel, biodiesel or SVO, in any combination. 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 have to begin 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 information on straight vegetable oil systems in my blog.

3. Biodiesel or SVO?

Biodiesel has some clear benefits over SVO: it works in any diesel, without any conversion or modifications to the engine or the fuel system– simply put it in and go. It likewise has better cold-weather residential or commercial properties than SVO (however not as excellent as petro-diesel– see Using biodiesel in winter season). Unlike SVO,

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

Biodiesel is a clean, safe, ready-to-use, alternative fuel, whereas it’s reasonable to say that many SVO systems are still speculative and require additional 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 new oil or utilized oil (and depending upon where you live). And unlike SVO, it needs to be processed initially.

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

Anyway you have to process SVO too, specifically WVO (waste veggie oil, used, 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 impurities and water must be eliminated, and it most likely should 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.