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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 big oil business sell 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 utilized cooking oil it’s not just low-cost but you’ll be recycling a bothersome waste product. Best of all is the GREAT sensation of liberty, self-reliance and empowerment it will offer you. Here’s how to do it– everything you need to know.

Straight veggie oil fuel (SVO) systems can be a tidy, reliable and economical choice. Unlike biodiesel, with SVO you have to modify the engine. The best 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 example you can use petro-diesel, biodiesel or SVO, in any mix. Just launch and go, stop and change off, like any other cars and truck. 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 ordinary 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 veggie oil systems in my blog.

3. Biodiesel or SVO?

Biodiesel has some clear advantages over SVO: it operates in any diesel, without any conversion or adjustments to the engine or the fuel system– just put it in and go. It also has much better cold-weather properties than SVO (however not as excellent as petro-diesel– see Using biodiesel in winter). Unlike SVO,

it’s backed by lots of long-term tests in numerous nations, including millions of miles on the roadway.

Biodiesel is a tidy, safe, ready-to-use, alternative fuel, whereas it’s reasonable to state that lots of SVO systems are still speculative and need 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 brand-new oil or utilized oil (and depending on where you live). And unlike SVO, it has to be processed initially.

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

Anyway you need to too, particularly WVO (waste veggie oil, used, cooked), which many individuals with SVO systems utilize due to the fact that it’s cheap or complimentary for the taking. With WVO food particles and pollutants and water should be gotten rid of, and it probably must be deacidified too. Biodieselers state, “If I’m going to need to do all that I may as well make biodiesel instead.” But SVO types belittle that– it’s much less processing than making biodiesel, they state. To each his own.