1 Make your own Biodiesel Part 2

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Anybody can make biodiesel. It's simple, you can make it in your kitchen-- and it's BETTER than the petro-diesel fuel the huge 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 just cheap however you'll be recycling a frustrating waste item. Most importantly is the GREAT sensation of flexibility, self-reliance and empowerment it will provide you. Here's how to do it-- everything you need to know.

Straight vegetable oil fuel (SVO) systems can be a clean, reliable and economical choice. Unlike biodiesel, with SVO you need to modify the engine. The very best way is to fit an expert 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 circumstances you can utilize petro-diesel, biodiesel or SVO, in any mix. Just launch and go, stop and switch off, like any other vehicle. Journey to Forever's Toyota TownAce van uses an Elsbett single-tank system. More

There are likewise 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 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.

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3. Biodiesel or SVO?

Biodiesel has some clear advantages over SVO: it works in any diesel, without any conversion or modifications to the engine or the fuel system-- just put it in and go. It likewise has better cold-weather residential or commercial properties than SVO (but not as great as petro-diesel-- see Using biodiesel in winter season). Unlike SVO,

it's backed by many long-lasting tests in numerous countries, including millions of miles on the roadway.

Biodiesel is a clean, safe, ready-to-use, alternative fuel, whereas it's fair to say that lots of SVO systems are still experimental and need additional advancement.

On the other hand, biodiesel can be more pricey, depending just how much you make, what you make it from and whether you're comparing it with new oil or used oil (and depending on where you live). And unlike SVO, it has to be processed initially.

But the large and rapidly growing around the world band of homebrewers do not mind-- they make a supply every week or once a month and quickly get used to it. Many have actually been doing it for years.

Anyway you have to process SVO too, especially WVO (waste grease, used, prepared), which lots of people with SVO systems utilize since it's inexpensive or free for the taking. With WVO food particles and impurities and water should be removed, and it most likely needs to be deacidified too. Biodieselers state, "If I'm going to have to do all that I may also make biodiesel instead." But SVO types belittle that-- it's much less processing than making biodiesel, they say. To each his own.