Anybody can make biodiesel. It’s simple, 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 much better for health.

If you make it from utilized cooking oil it’s not only low-cost however you’ll be recycling a troublesome waste product. Most importantly is the GREAT feeling of flexibility, independence and it will offer you. Here’s how to do it-- everything you need to understand.

Straight grease fuel (SVO) systems can be a clean, effective and cost-effective alternative. Unlike biodiesel, with SVO you have 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, as well as fuel heating.

With the German Elsbett single-tank SVO system for circumstances you can utilize petro-diesel, biodiesel or SVO, in any combination. Just start up and go, stop and turn off, like any other automobile. 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 have to begin the engine on normal petroleum diesel or biodiesel in one tank and after that 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 details on straight grease systems in my blog site.

3. Biodiesel or SVO?

Biodiesel has some clear benefits 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). Unlike SVO,

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

Biodiesel is a tidy, safe, ready-to-use, alternative fuel, whereas it’s fair to state that lots of SVO systems are still speculative 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 brand-new oil or utilized oil (and depending upon where you live). And unlike SVO, it needs to be processed initially.

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

Anyway you need to process SVO too, particularly WVO (waste vegetable oil, utilized, prepared), which lots of people with SVO systems use since it’s inexpensive or totally free for the taking. With WVO food particles and pollutants and water should be gotten rid of, and it probably must be deacidified too. Biodieselers say, “If I’m going to have to do all that I might too make biodiesel rather.” But SVO types scoff at that-- it’s much less processing than making biodiesel, they say. To each his own.