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-- much better for the environment and better for health.
If you make it from utilized cooking oil it's not just inexpensive however you'll be recycling a frustrating waste product. Best of all is the GREAT feeling of freedom, independence and empowerment it will offer you. Here's how to do it-- everything you require to know.
Straight veggie oil fuel (SVO) systems can be a tidy, efficient and cost-effective option. Unlike biodiesel, with SVO you need to modify the engine. The very best method is to fit an expert 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 instance you can use petro-diesel, biodiesel or SVO, in any combination. Just begin 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 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 change 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 advantages over SVO: it operates in any diesel, with no conversion or modifications to the engine or the fuel system-- just put it in and go. It also 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 lots of countries, including countless miles on the roadway.
is a clean, safe, ready-to-use, alternative fuel, whereas it's reasonable to say that many SVO systems are still experimental and require 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 new oil or used oil (and depending upon where you live). And unlike SVO, it has actually to be processed first.
But the large and rapidly growing around the world band of homebrewers don't mind-- they make a supply each week or once a month and quickly get utilized to it. Many have actually been doing it for several years.
Anyway you have to process SVO too, specifically WVO (waste vegetable oil, utilized, cooked), which many individuals with SVO systems utilize since it's low-cost or complimentary for the taking. With WVO food particles and pollutants and water should be eliminated, and it most likely must be deacidified too. Biodieselers state, "If I'm going to need to do all that I may too make biodiesel rather." But SVO types scoff at that-- it's much less processing than making biodiesel, they say. To each his own.