Make your own Biodiesel Part 2
Anybody can make biodiesel. It's easy, you can make it in your kitchen area-- and it's BETTER than the petro-diesel fuel the big oil business 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 utilized cooking oil it's not only cheap but you'll be recycling a bothersome waste product. Best of all is the GREAT feeling of liberty, independence and empowerment it will offer you. Here's how to do it-- whatever you require to know.
Straight vegetable oil fuel (SVO) systems can be a clean, reliable and cost-effective choice. Unlike biodiesel, with SVO you have to customize the engine. The finest way is to fit a professional 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 example you can use petro-diesel, biodiesel or SVO, in any combination. Just start up and go, stop and turn off, like any other cars and truck. Journey to TownAce van utilizes 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 start the engine on normal 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 switch back to petro- or biodiesel before you stop the engine, or you'll coke up the injectors.
More info on straight veggie oil systems in my blog site.
3. Biodiesel or SVO?
Biodiesel has some clear benefits over SVO: it works in any diesel, without any conversion or adjustments to the engine or the fuel system-- just put it in and go. It likewise has better cold-weather homes 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 lots of nations, including millions of miles on the road.
Biodiesel is a tidy, safe, ready-to-use, alternative fuel, whereas it's fair to say that lots of SVO systems are still speculative and require further development.
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 new oil or used oil (and depending upon where you live). And unlike SVO, it needs to be processed initially.
But the big and quickly growing around the world band of homebrewers don't mind-- they make a supply weekly or when a month and quickly get utilized to it. Many have been doing it for years.
Anyway you have to process SVO too, particularly WVO (waste grease, utilized, prepared), which lots of people with SVO systems utilize because it's inexpensive or free for the taking. With WVO food particles and impurities and water should be removed, and it probably should be deacidified too. Biodieselers state, "If I'm going to have to do all that I may also make biodiesel instead." But SVO types discount that-- it's much less processing than making biodiesel, they say. To each his own.