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 business 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 only low-cost however you’ll be recycling a problematic waste item. Most importantly is the GREAT sensation of freedom, self-reliance and empowerment it will give you. Here’s how to do it-- whatever you need to understand.

Straight veggie oil fuel (SVO) systems can be a clean, reliable and economical choice. Unlike biodiesel, with SVO you have to modify the engine. The finest 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 instance you can utilize petro-diesel, biodiesel or SVO, in any combination. Just start up and go, stop and change off, like any other car. 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 start the engine on ordinary 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.

More details on straight vegetable oil systems in my blog.

3. Biodiesel or SVO?

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

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

Biodiesel is a tidy, safe, ready-to-use, alternative fuel, whereas it’s reasonable to state that lots of SVO systems are still speculative and more advancement.

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

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

Anyway you have to process SVO too, particularly WVO (waste grease, utilized, cooked), which many individuals with SVO systems utilize due to the fact that it’s cheap or totally free for the taking. With WVO food particles and impurities and water must be eliminated, and it probably ought to be deacidified too. Biodieselers say, “If I’m going to have to do all that I may also make biodiesel rather.” But SVO types belittle that-- it’s much less processing than making biodiesel, they state. To each his own.