Anybody can make biodiesel. It’s easy, you can make it in your kitchen area-- and it’s BETTER than the petro-diesel fuel the huge 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 used cooking oil it’s not only cheap however you’ll be recycling a troublesome waste product. Best of all is the GREAT feeling of flexibility, self-reliance and empowerment it will provide you. Here’s how to do it-- whatever you require to understand.

Straight veggie oil fuel (SVO) systems can be a clean, efficient and cost-effective option. Unlike biodiesel, with SVO you need to modify 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 example you can utilize petro-diesel, biodiesel or SVO, in any mix. Just begin up and go, stop and turn off, like any other vehicle. 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 start 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 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 also has much better cold-weather homes than SVO (however not as good as petro-diesel-- see Using biodiesel in winter season). Unlike SVO,

it’s backed by numerous long-lasting tests in numerous countries, including countless miles on the roadway.

Biodiesel is a clean, safe, ready-to-use, alternative fuel, whereas it’s reasonable to state that many SVO systems are still speculative and require additional 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 new oil or utilized oil (and depending upon where you live). And unlike SVO, it has actually to be processed initially.

But the big and rapidly growing around the world band of homebrewers do not mind-- they make a supply each week or once a month and quickly get used to it. Many have been doing it for several years.

Anyway you need to process SVO too, particularly WVO (waste grease, used, cooked), which many individuals with SVO systems utilize since it’s cheap or totally free for the taking. With WVO food particles and impurities and water need to be gotten rid of, and it most likely ought to be deacidified too. Biodieselers say, “If I’m going to need to do all that I may also make biodiesel instead.” But SVO types discount that-- it’s much less processing than making biodiesel, they say. To each his own.