Anybody can make biodiesel. It’s simple, you can make it in your kitchen area-- and it’s BETTER than the petro-diesel fuel the big oil business offer 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 much better for health.

If you make it from used cooking oil it’s not only cheap but you’ll be recycling a bothersome waste product. Most importantly is the GREAT sensation of flexibility, independence and empowerment it will give you. Here’s how to do it-- whatever you require to understand.

Straight veggie oil fuel (SVO) systems can be a tidy, effective and cost-effective alternative. 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 example you can use petro-diesel, biodiesel or SVO, in any combination. Just launch and go, stop and turn off, like any other cars and truck. 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 normal petroleum diesel or biodiesel in one tank and then 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 veggie oil systems in my blog.

3. Biodiesel or SVO?

Biodiesel has some clear advantages over SVO: it works in any diesel, with no conversion or adjustments to the engine or the fuel system-- just put it in and go. It also has better cold-weather properties than SVO (however not as excellent as petro-diesel-- see Using biodiesel in winter). Unlike SVO,

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

Biodiesel is a clean, safe, ready-to-use, alternative fuel, whereas it’s reasonable to say that many SVO systems are still speculative and require more advancement.

On the other hand, biodiesel can be more pricey, depending just how much you make, what you make it from and whether you’re comparing it with brand-new oil or utilized oil (and depending on where you live). And unlike SVO, it needs to be processed first.

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

Anyway you have to process SVO too, specifically WVO (waste vegetable oil, utilized, cooked), which many individuals with SVO systems utilize due to the fact that it’s low-cost or totally free for the taking. With WVO food particles and pollutants and water should be eliminated, and it most likely must be deacidified too. Biodieselers state, “If I’m going to need to do all that I may too make biodiesel instead.” But SVO types scoff at that-- it’s much less processing than making biodiesel, they say. To each his own.