Make your own Biodiesel Part 2

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 business offer 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 better for health.

If you make it from used cooking oil it’s not just cheap however you’ll be recycling a troublesome waste item. Best of all is the GREAT feeling of freedom, self-reliance and empowerment it will give you. Here’s how to do it– whatever you require to understand.

Straight grease fuel (SVO) systems can be a tidy, effective and affordable option. 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, as well as fuel heating.

With the German Elsbett single-tank SVO system for circumstances you can utilize petro-diesel, biodiesel or SVO, in any combination. Just launch 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 have to start 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 details on straight grease 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 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 great as petro-diesel– see Using biodiesel in winter season). Unlike SVO,

it’s backed by numerous long-lasting tests in numerous countries, including millions of miles on the roadway.

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 further advancement.

On the other hand, biodiesel can be more costly, depending just how much you make, what you make it from and whether you’re comparing it with brand-new oil or used oil (and depending on where you live). And unlike SVO, it needs to be processed first.

But the large and worldwide band of homebrewers do not mind– they make a supply every week or once a month and quickly get used to it. Many have been doing it for many years.

Anyway you need to process SVO too, specifically WVO (waste grease, used, prepared), which lots of people with SVO systems utilize since it’s low-cost or complimentary for the taking. With WVO food particles and impurities and water should be gotten rid of, and it most likely should be deacidified too. Biodieselers state, “If I’m going to need to do all that I might also make biodiesel rather.” But SVO types belittle that– it’s much less processing than making biodiesel, they state. To each his own.