Anybody can make biodiesel. It’s simple, you can make it in your kitchen 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 utilized cooking oil it’s not just cheap however you’ll be recycling a troublesome waste product. Most importantly is the GREAT feeling of flexibility, self-reliance and empowerment it will provide you. Here’s how to do it-- whatever you require to know.

Straight veggie oil fuel (SVO) systems can be a clean, efficient and affordable alternative. Unlike biodiesel, with SVO you need 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 circumstances you can use petro-diesel, biodiesel or SVO, in any combination. Just launch 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 likewise 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 then switch to SVO in the other tank when the veg-oil is hot enough, and switch 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, with no conversion or modifications to the engine or the fuel system-- simply put it in and go. It also has better cold-weather homes than SVO (but not as good as petro-diesel-- see Using biodiesel in winter season). Unlike SVO,

it’s backed by lots of long-lasting tests in many nations, including millions of miles on the road.

Biodiesel is a clean, safe, ready-to-use, alternative fuel, whereas it’s fair to state that lots of SVO systems are still experimental and require additional .

On the other hand, biodiesel can be more pricey, 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 upon where you live). And unlike SVO, it has actually to be processed initially.

But the big and rapidly growing worldwide band of homebrewers don’t mind-- they make a supply every week or once a month and quickly get utilized to it. Many have been doing it for several years.

Anyway you have to process SVO too, specifically WVO (waste grease, utilized, cooked), which lots of people with SVO systems use since it’s inexpensive or free for the taking. With WVO food particles and pollutants and water must be eliminated, and it probably needs to be deacidified too. Biodieselers state, “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.