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 huge oil business sell 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 better for health.

If you make it from used cooking oil it’s not just cheap however you’ll be recycling a problematic waste product. Best of all is the GREAT sensation of freedom, self-reliance and empowerment it will give you. Here’s how to do it– everything you require to know.

Straight grease fuel (SVO) systems can be a clean, reliable and economical option. Unlike biodiesel, with SVO you have to modify the engine. The best method is to fit an expert 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 circumstances you can utilize petro-diesel, biodiesel or SVO, in any mix. Just start up and go, stop and turn off, like any other vehicle. Journey to Forever’s Toyota TownAce van uses 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 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 info on straight grease systems in my blog.

3. Biodiesel or SVO?

Biodiesel has some clear advantages over SVO: it operates in any diesel, with no or modifications to the engine or the fuel system– just put it in and go. It also has better cold-weather residential or commercial properties than SVO (however not as excellent as petro-diesel– see Using biodiesel in winter season). Unlike SVO,

it’s backed by many long-lasting tests in many nations, including countless miles on the roadway.

Biodiesel is a clean, safe, ready-to-use, alternative fuel, whereas it’s fair to say that numerous SVO systems are still speculative and need additional 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 brand-new oil or used oil (and depending upon where you live). And unlike SVO, it needs to be processed initially.

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

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