Anybody can make biodiesel. It's simple, you can make it in your kitchen-- and it's BETTER than the petro-diesel fuel the big oil companies 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 just inexpensive but you'll be recycling a problematic waste product. Best of all 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 vegetable oil fuel (SVO) systems can be a tidy, reliable and . Unlike biodiesel, with SVO you have to modify 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 instance you can use petro-diesel, biodiesel or SVO, in any mix. Just begin up and go, stop and switch off, like any other automobile. 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 start the engine on ordinary petroleum diesel or biodiesel in one tank and after that switch 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.
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3. Biodiesel or SVO?
Biodiesel has some clear benefits over SVO: it works in any diesel, with no conversion or modifications to the engine or the fuel system-- simply put it in and go. It also has better cold-weather homes than SVO (but not as good as petro-diesel-- see Using biodiesel in winter). Unlike SVO,
it's backed by many long-lasting tests in lots of nations, including millions of miles on the roadway.
Biodiesel is a tidy, safe, ready-to-use, alternative fuel, whereas it's reasonable to state that many SVO systems are still speculative and require further advancement.
On the other hand, biodiesel can be more pricey, depending how much you make, what you make it from and whether you're comparing it with new oil or used oil (and depending on where you live). And unlike SVO, it has actually to be processed initially.
But the large and quickly growing around the world band of homebrewers don't mind-- they make a supply every week or once a month and quickly get utilized to it. Many have actually been doing it for several years.
Anyway you need to process SVO too, especially WVO (waste veggie oil, utilized, cooked), which lots of people with SVO systems use since it's inexpensive or totally free for the taking. With WVO food particles and impurities and water need to be removed, and it most likely ought to be deacidified too. Biodieselers state, "If I'm going to need to do all that I might also make biodiesel instead." But SVO types scoff at that-- it's much less processing than making biodiesel, they say. To each his own.
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