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 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 only low-cost however you’ll be recycling a frustrating waste item. Most importantly is the GREAT sensation of freedom, self-reliance and empowerment it will provide you. Here’s how to do it– everything you need to know.

Straight veggie oil fuel (SVO) systems can be a tidy, reliable and cost-effective option. Unlike biodiesel, with SVO you need to customize the engine. The best way is to fit a professional 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 use petro-diesel, biodiesel or SVO, in any combination. Just launch and go, stop and change 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 ordinary petroleum diesel or biodiesel in one tank and then switch 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 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– simply put it in and go. It also has better cold-weather homes than SVO (however not as great as petro-diesel– see Using in winter). Unlike SVO,

it’s backed by numerous long-term tests in numerous countries, including millions of miles on the roadway.

Biodiesel is a tidy, safe, ready-to-use, alternative fuel, whereas it’s reasonable to say that lots of SVO systems are still experimental and require more development.

On the other hand, biodiesel can be more pricey, depending 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 needs to be processed first.

But the large and rapidly growing around the world band of homebrewers do not mind– they make a supply every week or as soon as a month and soon get used to it. Many have been doing it for several years.

Anyway you need to process SVO too, specifically WVO (waste grease, utilized, prepared), which many individuals with SVO systems use due to the fact that it’s cheap or totally free for the taking. With WVO food particles and impurities and water must be eliminated, and it most likely needs to be deacidified too. Biodieselers state, “If I’m going to have to do all that I might too make biodiesel rather.” But SVO types scoff at that– it’s much less processing than making biodiesel, they say. To each his own.