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Make your own Biodiesel Part 2

Anybody can make biodiesel. It’s easy, you can make it in your kitchen– and it’s BETTER than the petro-diesel fuel the huge 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 used cooking oil it’s not only low-cost but you’ll be recycling a problematic waste product. Best of all is the GREAT sensation of liberty, self-reliance and empowerment it will provide you. Here’s how to do it– whatever you require to understand.

Straight grease fuel (SVO) systems can be a tidy, reliable and affordable choice. Unlike biodiesel, with SVO you need to customize the engine. The finest method 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 start up and go, stop and turn off, like any other cars and truck. 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 veggie oil systems in my blog site.

3. Biodiesel or SVO?

Biodiesel has some clear advantages over SVO: it operates in any diesel, with no conversion or adjustments 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 good as petro-diesel– see Using biodiesel in winter season). Unlike SVO,

it’s backed by lots of long-term tests in lots of countries, consisting of countless miles on the roadway.

Biodiesel is a tidy, safe, ready-to-use, alternative fuel, whereas it’s reasonable to state that numerous SVO systems are still experimental and require additional advancement.

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 new oil or used oil (and depending upon where you live). And unlike SVO, it needs to be processed initially.

But the large and quickly growing around the world 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 years.

Anyway you need to process SVO too, specifically WVO (waste vegetable oil, utilized, prepared), which lots of individuals with SVO systems utilize due to the fact that it’s inexpensive or complimentary for the taking. With WVO food particles and pollutants and water must be removed, and it most likely ought to be deacidified too. Biodieselers say, « If I’m going to have to do all that I may too make biodiesel rather. » But SVO types belittle that– it’s much less processing than making biodiesel, they state. To each his own.