Make Your Own Biodiesel Part 2
Anybody can make biodiesel. It's easy, 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 much 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 used cooking oil it's not just inexpensive but you'll be recycling a troublesome waste item. Most importantly is the GREAT feeling of liberty, independence and empowerment it will provide you. Here's how to do it-- whatever you require to know.
Straight grease fuel (SVO) systems can be a tidy, reliable and economical alternative. Unlike biodiesel, with SVO you need to customize the engine. The finest method is to fit an expert 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 circumstances you can utilize 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 uses an Elsbett single-tank system. More
There are also two-tank SVO systems which pre-heat the oil to make it thinner. You need to begin the engine on ordinary 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 grease systems in my blog site.
3. Biodiesel or SVO?
Biodiesel has some clear advantages over SVO: it operates in any diesel, without any conversion or adjustments to the engine or the fuel system-- just put it in and go. It also has better cold-weather residential or commercial properties than SVO (however not as great as petro-diesel-- see Using biodiesel in winter). Unlike SVO,
it's backed by numerous long-lasting tests in numerous nations, consisting of of miles on the roadway.
Biodiesel is a clean, safe, ready-to-use, alternative fuel, whereas it's reasonable to state that numerous SVO systems are still speculative and require additional development.
On the other hand, biodiesel can be more costly, 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 has to be processed initially.
But the big and rapidly growing around the world band of homebrewers do not mind-- they make a supply weekly or when a month and soon get used to it. Many have actually been doing it for many years.
Anyway you need to process SVO too, particularly WVO (waste veggie oil, used, prepared), which many individuals with SVO systems utilize because it's cheap or free for the taking. With WVO food particles and pollutants and water must be gotten rid of, and it probably needs to 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 state. To each his own.
