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 the huge 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 only cheap but you'll be recycling a frustrating waste product. Best of all is the GREAT feeling of freedom, independence and empowerment it will give you. Here's how to do it-- everything you need to understand.
Straight vegetable oil fuel (SVO) systems can be a tidy, reliable and affordable alternative. Unlike biodiesel, with SVO you need to modify the engine. The finest way 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 circumstances you can utilize petro-diesel, biodiesel or SVO, in any mix. Just start up and go, stop and turn off, like any other automobile. 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 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 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 site.
3. Biodiesel or SVO?
Biodiesel has some clear advantages 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 likewise has much better cold-weather homes than SVO (however not as good as petro-diesel-- see Using biodiesel in winter season). Unlike SVO,
it's backed by numerous long-term tests in lots of nations, including millions of miles on the roadway.
Biodiesel is a clean, safe, ready-to-use, alternative fuel, whereas it's reasonable to say that lots of SVO systems are still experimental and need additional development.
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 utilized oil (and depending upon where you live). And unlike SVO, it has to be processed first.
But the big 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 used to it. Many have actually been doing it for several years.
Anyway you have to process SVO too, especially WVO (waste vegetable oil, utilized, cooked), which many individuals with SVO systems utilize since it's cheap or complimentary for the taking. With WVO food particles and pollutants and water must be removed, and it most likely should be deacidified too. Biodieselers state, "If I'm going to need to do all that I might too make biodiesel rather." But SVO types scoff at that-- it's much less processing than making biodiesel, they say. To each his own.