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 business 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 only cheap however you'll be recycling a frustrating waste product. Best of all is the GREAT sensation of freedom, self-reliance and empowerment it will offer you. Here's how to do it-- everything you require to know.
Straight grease fuel (SVO) systems can be a tidy, effective and economical choice. Unlike biodiesel, with SVO you need to modify the engine. The finest 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 circumstances you can use petro-diesel, biodiesel or SVO, in any mix. Just launch 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 have to begin the engine on normal 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 information on straight grease systems in my blog.
3. Biodiesel or SVO?
Biodiesel has some clear advantages over SVO: it works in any diesel, without any conversion or adjustments to the engine or the fuel system-- just put it in and go. It likewise has much better cold-weather homes than SVO (however not as great 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 road.
Biodiesel is a clean, safe, ready-to-use, alternative fuel, whereas it's reasonable to state that many SVO systems are still experimental and need additional development.
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 brand-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 quickly growing worldwide band of do not mind-- they make a supply each week or as soon as a month and quickly get utilized to it. Many have been doing it for many years.
Anyway you need to process SVO too, especially WVO (waste vegetable oil, utilized, cooked), which many individuals with SVO systems utilize due to the fact that it's low-cost or free for the taking. With WVO food particles and pollutants and water must be removed, and it probably should be deacidified too. Biodieselers say, "If I'm going to need to do all that I may also make biodiesel instead." But SVO types scoff at that-- it's much less processing than making biodiesel, they say. To each his own.