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 business 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 cheap but you'll be recycling a frustrating waste product. Best of all is the GREAT sensation of freedom, independence and empowerment it will offer you. Here's how to do it-- whatever you require to know.
Straight veggie oil fuel (SVO) systems can be a tidy, efficient and cost-effective alternative. Unlike biodiesel, with SVO you have to customize the engine. The finest way is to fit a professional singletank SVO system with replacement injectors and glowplugs optimised for veg-oil, in addition to 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 change off, like any other car. 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 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 change 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 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 likewise has much better cold-weather residential or commercial properties than SVO (but not as great as petro-diesel-- see Using biodiesel in winter). Unlike SVO,
it's backed by numerous long-lasting tests in numerous countries, consisting of countless miles on the road.
Biodiesel is a clean, safe, ready-to-use, alternative fuel, whereas it's fair to state that numerous SVO systems are still speculative and need more development.
On the other hand, biodiesel can be more expensive, depending just how much you make, what you make it from and whether you're it with brand-new oil or utilized oil (and depending on where you live). And unlike SVO, it has actually to be processed first.
But the large and rapidly growing worldwide band of homebrewers don't mind-- they make a supply every week or when a month and soon get utilized to it. Many have actually been doing it for several years.
Anyway you have to process SVO too, particularly WVO (waste grease, utilized, cooked), which many individuals with SVO systems use due to the fact that it's low-cost or complimentary for the taking. With WVO food particles and impurities and water must be gotten rid of, and it most likely must be deacidified too. Biodieselers say, "If I'm going to need to do all that I may also make biodiesel rather." But SVO types discount that-- it's much less processing than making biodiesel, they say. To each his own.
