Make your own Biodiesel Part 2

Anybody can make biodiesel. It’s simple, you can make it in your cooking 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– much better for the environment and better for health.

If you make it from utilized cooking oil it’s not only inexpensive however you’ll be recycling a frustrating waste item. Most importantly is the GREAT sensation of flexibility, independence and empowerment it will give you. Here’s how to do it– everything you require to know.

Straight vegetable oil fuel (SVO) systems can be a clean, effective and cost-effective alternative. Unlike biodiesel, with SVO you have to modify the engine. The best method 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 instance you can use petro-diesel, biodiesel or SVO, in any mix. Just begin up and go, stop and change off, like any other car. 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 start the engine on normal 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 switch back to petro- or biodiesel before you stop the engine, or you’ll coke up the injectors.

More details on straight veggie oil 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– just put it in and go. It also 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 numerous long-term tests in countries, consisting of 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 experimental and require more 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 has to be processed initially.

But the big and quickly growing worldwide band of homebrewers do not mind– they make a supply every week or when a month and quickly get used to it. Many have actually been doing it for years.

Anyway you need to process SVO too, especially WVO (waste vegetable oil, used, cooked), which lots of individuals with SVO systems use since it’s low-cost or totally free for the taking. With WVO food particles and pollutants and water need to be removed, and it most likely needs to be deacidified too. Biodieselers state, “If I’m going to need to do all that I may also make biodiesel instead.” But SVO types discount that– it’s much less processing than making biodiesel, they say. To each his own.