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 big oil business sell 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 just low-cost but you’ll be recycling a problematic waste product. Most importantly is the GREAT sensation of freedom, independence and empowerment it will provide you. Here’s how to do it-- whatever you require to understand.

Straight grease fuel (SVO) systems can be a tidy, reliable and cost-effective option. Unlike biodiesel, with SVO you need to customize 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 mix. Just launch and go, stop and turn off, like any other automobile. 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 have to start the engine on regular 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 information on straight grease systems in my blog site.

3. Biodiesel or SVO?

Biodiesel has some clear benefits over SVO: it operates in any diesel, with no conversion or modifications to the engine or the fuel system-- simply put it in and go. It likewise has better cold-weather residential or commercial properties than SVO (but not as good as petro-diesel-- see Using biodiesel in winter). Unlike SVO,

it’s backed by lots of long-lasting tests in lots of nations, including countless miles on the road.

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

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 new oil or utilized oil (and depending upon where you live). And unlike SVO, it needs to be processed first.

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

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