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 the big oil companies 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 much better for health.

If you make it from utilized cooking oil it’s not just inexpensive but you’ll be recycling a bothersome waste product. Best of all is the GREAT sensation of freedom, independence and empowerment it will give you. Here’s how to do it– whatever you need to understand.

Straight grease fuel (SVO) systems can be a clean, efficient and economical choice. Unlike biodiesel, with SVO you need to customize the engine. The very best method is to fit an expert 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 use 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 likewise two-tank SVO systems which pre-heat the oil to make it thinner. You have to begin the engine on regular 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 information on straight vegetable oil systems in my blog.

3. Biodiesel or SVO?

Biodiesel has some clear benefits over SVO: it operates in any diesel, without any conversion or modifications to the engine or the fuel system– simply put it in and go. It likewise has much better cold-weather residential or commercial properties than SVO (however not as great as petro-diesel– see Using biodiesel in winter season). Unlike SVO,

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

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

On the other hand, biodiesel can be more expensive, depending just 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 has actually to be processed first.

But the large and quickly growing worldwide band of homebrewers do not mind– they make a supply weekly or when a month and quickly get utilized to it. Many have actually been doing it for many years.

Anyway you have to process SVO too, particularly WVO (waste grease, utilized, cooked), which lots of people with SVO systems utilize because 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 must be deacidified too. Biodieselers state, “If I’m going to have 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 state. To each his own.