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 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 inexpensive however you’ll be recycling a problematic waste product. Most importantly is the GREAT feeling of liberty, self-reliance and empowerment it will offer you. Here’s how to do it– everything you require to know.

Straight grease fuel (SVO) systems can be a clean, effective and affordable option. Unlike biodiesel, with SVO you have to customize the engine. The best method is to fit an expert singletank SVO system with replacement injectors and optimised for veg-oil, as well as fuel heating.

With the German Elsbett single-tank SVO system for instance you can use petro-diesel, biodiesel or SVO, in any combination. Just launch and go, stop and turn 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 have to begin the engine on normal 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 benefits 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 also has much better cold-weather residential or commercial properties than SVO (however not as great as petro-diesel– see Using biodiesel in winter season). Unlike SVO,

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

Biodiesel is a tidy, safe, ready-to-use, alternative fuel, whereas it’s reasonable to state that many SVO systems are still experimental and need additional advancement.

On the other hand, biodiesel can be more costly, 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 on where you live). And unlike SVO, it has to be processed first.

But the big and quickly growing worldwide band of homebrewers don’t mind– they make a supply weekly or when a month and soon get utilized to it. Many have actually been doing it for several years.

Anyway you need to process SVO too, especially WVO (waste grease, used, cooked), which many individuals with SVO systems utilize since it’s cheap or free for the taking. With WVO food particles and pollutants and water must be removed, and it probably needs to be deacidified too. Biodieselers say, “If I’m going to need to do all that I may as well make biodiesel instead.” But SVO types scoff at that– it’s much less processing than making biodiesel, they say. To each his own.