Make your own Biodiesel Part 2

Anybody can make biodiesel. It’s easy, you can make it in your kitchen– and it’s BETTER than the petro-diesel fuel the big oil companies 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 utilized cooking oil it’s not just low-cost however you’ll be recycling a troublesome waste item. Best of all is the GREAT sensation of flexibility, self-reliance and it will offer you. Here’s how to do it– everything you need to know.

Straight grease fuel (SVO) systems can be a clean, efficient and affordable alternative. Unlike biodiesel, with SVO you need to customize the engine. The very 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 circumstances you can utilize petro-diesel, biodiesel or SVO, in any mix. Just start up and go, stop and change 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 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 details on straight grease systems in my blog.

3. Biodiesel or SVO?

Biodiesel has some clear benefits over SVO: it operates in any diesel, with no conversion or adjustments to the engine or the fuel system– just put it in and go. It likewise has much better cold-weather properties than SVO (but not as excellent as petro-diesel– see Using biodiesel in winter season). Unlike SVO,

it’s backed by many long-term tests in many countries, consisting of countless miles on the roadway.

Biodiesel is a tidy, safe, ready-to-use, alternative fuel, whereas it’s fair to say that many SVO systems are still experimental and require more advancement.

On the other hand, biodiesel can be more costly, 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 to be processed first.

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

Anyway you have to process SVO too, specifically WVO (waste grease, utilized, cooked), which many individuals with SVO systems use since it’s inexpensive or free for the taking. With WVO food particles and pollutants and water must be removed, and it most likely ought to be deacidified too. Biodieselers say, “If I’m going to have to do all that I might too make biodiesel rather.” But SVO types scoff at that– it’s much less processing than making biodiesel, they say. To each his own.