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 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 just cheap however you’ll be recycling a troublesome 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 need to understand.

Straight grease fuel (SVO) systems can be a clean, and affordable alternative. Unlike biodiesel, with SVO you need to modify the engine. The best method is to fit a professional 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 utilize petro-diesel, biodiesel or SVO, in any mix. Just launch and go, stop and turn 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 need to begin the engine on normal 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 information 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 better cold-weather properties than SVO (but not as good as petro-diesel– see Using biodiesel in winter season). Unlike SVO,

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

Biodiesel is a tidy, safe, ready-to-use, alternative fuel, whereas it’s fair to state that many SVO systems are still experimental and need further 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 utilized oil (and depending upon where you live). And unlike SVO, it has actually to be processed first.

But the large and rapidly growing around the world band of homebrewers don’t mind– they make a supply each week or once a month and quickly get used to it. Many have been doing it for many years.

Anyway you need to process SVO too, especially WVO (waste grease, used, prepared), which lots of people with SVO systems use because it’s cheap or free for the taking. With WVO food particles and pollutants and water must be eliminated, and it probably ought to be deacidified too. Biodieselers say, “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.