Make your own Biodiesel Part 2

Anybody can make biodiesel. It’s simple, you can make it in your cooking area– and it’s BETTER than the petro-diesel fuel the big oil companies 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 used cooking oil it’s not only low-cost but you’ll be recycling a problematic waste product. Most importantly is the GREAT feeling of freedom, self-reliance 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 tidy, effective and cost-effective option. Unlike biodiesel, with SVO you need to modify the engine. The very best 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 instance you can utilize petro-diesel, biodiesel or SVO, in any mix. Just start up and go, stop and switch off, like any other car. Journey to Forever’s Toyota TownAce van utilizes 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 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 change back to petro- or biodiesel before you stop the engine, or you’ll coke up the injectors.

More details on straight vegetable oil systems in my blog.

3. or SVO?

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

it’s backed by many long-term tests in lots of nations, consisting of 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 experimental and require 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 initially.

But the big and quickly growing around the world band of homebrewers do not mind– they make a supply each week or when a month and soon get used to it. Many have actually been doing it for several years.

Anyway you need to process SVO too, specifically WVO (waste grease, utilized, prepared), which many individuals with SVO systems utilize due to the fact that it’s cheap or free for the taking. With WVO food particles and impurities and water need to be eliminated, and it probably needs to be deacidified too. Biodieselers say, “If I’m going to have to do all that I might also make biodiesel instead.” But SVO types discount that– it’s much less processing than making biodiesel, they state. To each his own.