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 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-- much better for the environment and much better for health.

If you make it from utilized cooking oil it’s not just low-cost however you’ll be recycling a bothersome waste product. Most importantly is the GREAT feeling of flexibility, self-reliance and empowerment it will give you. Here’s how to do it-- everything you require to understand.

Straight grease fuel (SVO) systems can be a tidy, efficient and affordable alternative. Unlike biodiesel, with SVO you need 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, along with fuel heating.

With the German Elsbett single-tank SVO system for instance you can use petro-diesel, biodiesel or SVO, in any combination. Just start up and go, stop and turn off, like any other car. 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 begin the engine on ordinary 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.

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3. Biodiesel or SVO?

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

it’s backed by many long-term tests in numerous countries, consisting of millions of miles on the road.

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

On the other hand, biodiesel can be more costly, 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 upon where you live). And unlike SVO, it needs to be processed initially.

But the large and quickly growing around the world band of homebrewers don’t mind-- they make a supply weekly or when a month and soon get used to it. Many have been doing it for years.

Anyway you have to too, particularly WVO (waste grease, used, prepared), which lots of people with SVO systems utilize due to the fact that it’s inexpensive or free for the taking. With WVO food particles and impurities and water should be removed, and it probably ought to be deacidified too. Biodieselers state, “If I’m going to have to do all that I may as well make biodiesel instead.” But SVO types discount that-- it’s much less processing than making biodiesel, they say. To each his own.