Anybody can make biodiesel. It's simple, you can make it in your kitchen-- 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-- better for the environment and better for health.
If you make it from
utilized cooking oil it's not just cheap but you'll be recycling a bothersome waste
product. Most importantly is the GREAT sensation of freedom, independence and empowerment it will offer you. Here's how to do it-- whatever you need to know.
Straight veggie oil fuel (SVO) systems can be a clean, reliable and affordable alternative. Unlike biodiesel, with SVO you have to
customize the engine. The very best way is to fit an expert 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 start up and go, stop and turn off, like any other automobile. Journey to Forever's Toyota
TownAce van uses 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 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 veggie oil systems in my blog.
3.
Biodiesel or SVO?
Biodiesel has some clear benefits 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 better
cold-weather residential or
commercial properties than SVO (but not as great as petro-diesel-- see Using biodiesel in winter season). Unlike SVO,
it's backed by many long-lasting tests in numerous countries,
including millions of miles on the roadway.
Biodiesel is a tidy, safe, ready-to-use, alternative fuel, whereas it's fair to say that lots of SVO systems are still experimental and need more 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 brand-new oil or used oil (and depending upon where you live). And unlike SVO, it has to be processed first.
But the large and quickly
growing worldwide band of homebrewers do not mind-- they make a supply each week or once a month and soon get utilized to it. Many have been doing it for several years.
Anyway you have to process SVO too, particularly WVO (waste vegetable oil, used, cooked), 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 pollutants and water must be gotten rid of, and it most likely ought to be deacidified too. Biodieselers state, "If I'm going to have 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.
