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 better for health.

If you make it from used cooking oil it’s not just low-cost but you’ll be recycling a frustrating waste item. Best of all is the GREAT sensation of flexibility, independence and empowerment it will offer you. Here’s how to do it-- everything you require to know.

Straight vegetable oil fuel (SVO) systems can be a clean, efficient and economical option. Unlike biodiesel, with SVO you need to customize the engine. The finest 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 use petro-diesel, biodiesel or SVO, in any combination. Just launch and go, stop and turn off, like any other cars and truck. Journey to Forever’s Toyota TownAce van utilizes 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 start the engine on common 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 information on straight grease systems in my blog.

3. Biodiesel or SVO?

Biodiesel has some clear benefits over SVO: it works in any diesel, without any conversion or adjustments to the engine or the fuel system-- simply put it in and go. It also has much better or commercial properties than SVO (but not as excellent as petro-diesel-- see Using biodiesel in winter season). Unlike SVO,

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

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

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 brand-new oil or used oil (and depending upon where you live). And unlike SVO, it has to be processed initially.

But the large and rapidly growing worldwide band of homebrewers don’t mind-- they make a supply each week or when 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 numerous individuals with SVO systems utilize since it’s low-cost or totally free for the taking. With WVO food particles and pollutants and water should be removed, and it most likely should be deacidified too. Biodieselers state, “If I’m going to need to do all that I may also make biodiesel instead.” But SVO types belittle that-- it’s much less processing than making biodiesel, they state. To each his own.