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 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 troublesome waste item. Most importantly is the GREAT sensation of liberty, 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 clean, effective and economical choice. Unlike biodiesel, with SVO you need 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, as well as fuel heating.


With the German Elsbett single-tank SVO system for example you can utilize petro-diesel, biodiesel or SVO, in any combination. Just launch 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 also two-tank SVO systems which pre-heat the oil to make it thinner. You have to begin the engine on common petroleum diesel or biodiesel in one tank and then switch 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.


3. Biodiesel or SVO?


Biodiesel has some clear advantages over SVO: it works in any diesel, without any or modifications to the engine or the fuel system-- just put it in and go. It also has better cold-weather properties than SVO (but not as excellent as petro-diesel-- see Using biodiesel in winter). Unlike SVO,


it's backed by numerous long-lasting tests in numerous countries, including countless miles on the road.


Biodiesel is a clean, safe, ready-to-use, alternative fuel, whereas it's fair to state that lots of SVO systems are still speculative and need more advancement.


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 utilized oil (and depending on where you live). And unlike SVO, it has to be processed initially.


But the big and quickly growing worldwide band of homebrewers don't mind-- they make a supply weekly or as soon as a month and soon get utilized to it. Many have been doing it for many years.


Anyway you need to process SVO too, especially WVO (waste veggie oil, used, cooked), which lots of people with SVO systems use due to the fact that it's cheap or free for the taking. With WVO food particles and pollutants and water should be eliminated, and it most likely must be deacidified too. Biodieselers say, "If I'm going to have to do all that I might too make biodiesel instead." But SVO types scoff at that-- it's much less processing than making biodiesel, they state. To each his own.