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Make your own Biodiesel Part 2

Wayne Pettis edited this page 2025-01-18 12:20:20 +11:00

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 companies offer 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 utilized cooking oil it's not only cheap however you'll be recycling a problematic waste item. Best of all is the GREAT sensation of liberty, independence and empowerment it will provide you. Here's how to do it-- everything you need to know.


Straight grease fuel (SVO) systems can be a tidy, efficient and economical choice. Unlike biodiesel, with SVO you have to modify the engine. The very best way 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 instance you can utilize 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 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 regular petroleum diesel or biodiesel in one tank and after that 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 grease systems in my blog site.


3. Biodiesel or SVO?


Biodiesel has some clear benefits over SVO: it operates in any diesel, with no conversion or modifications to the engine or the fuel system-- just put it in and go. It likewise has 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-term tests in numerous countries, consisting of countless miles on the road.


Biodiesel is a clean, safe, ready-to-use, alternative fuel, whereas it's fair to say that many SVO systems are still experimental and need additional 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 or used oil (and depending on where you live). And unlike SVO, it has to be processed initially.


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


Anyway you need to process SVO too, specifically WVO (waste veggie oil, utilized, cooked), which lots of people with SVO systems utilize because it's low-cost or complimentary for the taking. With WVO food particles and pollutants and water must be gotten rid of, and it probably ought to be deacidified too. Biodieselers say, "If I'm going to have to do all that I might too make biodiesel instead." But SVO types scoff at that-- it's much less processing than making biodiesel, they say. To each his own.