Anybody can make biodiesel. It’s simple, you can make it in your kitchen-- and it’s BETTER than the petro-diesel fuel the big oil companies offer you. Your diesel motor will run better and last longer on your home-made fuel, and it’s much cleaner-- better for the environment and much better for health.

If you make it from utilized cooking oil it’s not only inexpensive however you’ll be recycling a troublesome waste item. Best of all is the GREAT sensation of freedom, independence and empowerment it will give you. Here’s how to do it-- whatever you need to understand.

Straight grease fuel (SVO) systems can be a tidy, reliable and cost-effective choice. Unlike biodiesel, with SVO you need to customize the engine. The very best method is to fit an expert 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 instance you can use petro-diesel, biodiesel or SVO, in any combination. Just begin up 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 also two-tank SVO systems which pre-heat the oil to make it thinner. You need to begin the engine on ordinary petroleum diesel or in one tank and after that 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 veggie oil systems in my blog site.

3. Biodiesel or SVO?

Biodiesel has some clear advantages over SVO: it operates in any diesel, without any conversion or modifications to the engine or the fuel system-- just put it in and go. It also has much better cold-weather residential or commercial properties than SVO (but not as great as petro-diesel-- see Using biodiesel in winter). Unlike SVO,

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

Biodiesel is a clean, safe, ready-to-use, alternative fuel, whereas it’s fair to say that many SVO systems are still experimental and need more development.

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 needs to be processed first.

But the large and rapidly growing around the world band of homebrewers do not mind-- they make a supply every week 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, specifically WVO (waste vegetable oil, used, cooked), which many individuals with SVO systems utilize because it’s low-cost or complimentary for the taking. With WVO food particles and impurities and water should be eliminated, and it most likely ought to be deacidified too. Biodieselers state, “If I’m going to need to do all that I may too make biodiesel rather.” But SVO types scoff at that-- it’s much less processing than making biodiesel, they state. To each his own.