Make your own Biodiesel Part 2

Anybody can make biodiesel. It’s easy, you can make it in your kitchen– and it’s BETTER than the petro-diesel fuel the huge oil business sell you. Your diesel motor will run better and last longer on your home-made fuel, and it’s much cleaner– much better for the environment and better for health.

If you make it from used cooking oil it’s not just low-cost but you’ll be recycling a frustrating waste product. Most importantly is the GREAT sensation of flexibility, self-reliance and empowerment it will give you. Here’s how to do it– whatever you require to understand.

Straight grease fuel (SVO) systems can be a tidy, effective and economical alternative. Unlike biodiesel, with SVO you have to modify the engine. The best way is to fit a professional singletank SVO system with 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 combination. Just start up and go, stop and switch off, like any other cars and truck. 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 common 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 info on straight veggie 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 adjustments to the engine or the fuel system– simply put it in and go. It likewise has much better cold-weather residential or commercial properties than SVO (however not as good as petro-diesel– see Using biodiesel in winter season). Unlike SVO,

it’s backed by many long-term tests in many countries, including countless miles on the roadway.

Biodiesel is a clean, safe, ready-to-use, alternative fuel, whereas it’s fair to state that lots of SVO systems are still speculative and need additional 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 new oil or utilized oil (and depending upon where you live). And unlike SVO, it has to be processed first.

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

Anyway you have to process SVO too, specifically WVO (waste grease, utilized, cooked), which many individuals with SVO systems utilize due to the fact that it’s low-cost or totally free for the taking. With WVO food particles and pollutants and water must be gotten rid of, and it probably must be deacidified too. Biodieselers say, “If I’m going to have to do all that I might 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.