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Make your own Biodiesel Part 2

Anybody can make biodiesel. It’s easy, you can make it in your cooking area– and it’s BETTER than the petro-diesel fuel the huge 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 better for health.

If you make it from used cooking oil it’s not just cheap but you’ll be recycling a troublesome waste item. 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 clean, effective and affordable alternative. Unlike biodiesel, with SVO you have to customize the engine. The very best method 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 example you can use petro-diesel, biodiesel or SVO, in any combination. Just begin up 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 have to start 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 info on straight grease in my blog.

3. Biodiesel or SVO?

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

it’s backed by numerous long-term tests in numerous countries, including countless miles on the road.

Biodiesel is a clean, safe, ready-to-use, alternative fuel, whereas it’s reasonable to say that numerous SVO systems are still experimental and need further advancement.

On the other hand, biodiesel can be more expensive, depending 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 actually to be processed first.

But the big and quickly growing worldwide band of homebrewers do not mind– they make a supply each week or as soon as a month and quickly get utilized to it. Many have actually been doing it for years.

Anyway you need to process SVO too, specifically WVO (waste grease, used, prepared), which many people with SVO systems use because it’s cheap or totally free for the taking. With WVO food particles and impurities and water need to be eliminated, and it most likely must be deacidified too. Biodieselers state, “If I’m going to need to do all that I might too make biodiesel instead.” But SVO types belittle that– it’s much less processing than making biodiesel, they state. To each his own.