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 huge oil companies offer 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 used cooking oil it's not only cheap however you'll be recycling a bothersome waste item. Best of all is the GREAT feeling of flexibility, independence and empowerment it will give you. Here's how to do it-- whatever you need to understand.
Straight vegetable oil fuel (SVO) systems can be a clean, effective and affordable choice. Unlike biodiesel, with SVO you need 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, along with fuel heating.
With the German Elsbett single-tank SVO system for circumstances you can use petro-diesel, biodiesel or SVO, in any mix. Just launch and go, stop and switch off, like any other vehicle. Journey to Forever's Toyota 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 need to begin the engine on common petroleum diesel or biodiesel in one tank and then change 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 info on straight grease systems in my blog.
3. Biodiesel or SVO?
Biodiesel has some clear advantages over SVO: it works in any diesel, without any conversion or adjustments 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). Unlike SVO,
it's backed by lots of long-lasting 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 fair to state that systems are still experimental and require further advancement.
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 on where you live). And unlike SVO, it needs to be processed initially.
But the large and rapidly growing worldwide band of homebrewers don't mind-- they make a supply weekly or as soon as a month and quickly get used to it. Many have actually been doing it for years.
Anyway you need to process SVO too, especially WVO (waste grease, utilized, cooked), which many individuals with SVO systems use due to the fact that it's inexpensive or complimentary for the taking. With WVO food particles and pollutants 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 rather." But SVO types scoff at that-- it's much less processing than making biodiesel, they state. To each his own.