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 business sell you. Your diesel motor will run better and last longer on your home-made fuel, and it's much cleaner-- much better for the environment and better for health.

If you make it from utilized cooking oil it's not just inexpensive however you'll be recycling a problematic waste item. Best of all is the GREAT sensation of freedom, independence and empowerment it will offer you. Here's how to do it-- everything you need to know.

Straight grease fuel (SVO) systems can be a tidy, effective and affordable option. Unlike biodiesel, with SVO you have to customize the engine. The best method is to fit a professional 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 circumstances you can utilize petro-diesel, biodiesel or SVO, in any combination. Just begin up and go, stop and change 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 need to start the engine on regular petroleum diesel or biodiesel in one tank and after that switch 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.

3. Biodiesel or SVO?

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

it's backed by numerous long-lasting tests in many countries, including millions of miles on the road.

Biodiesel is a tidy, safe, ready-to-use, alternative fuel, whereas it's fair to say that numerous SVO systems are still experimental and require 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 it with new oil or utilized oil (and depending upon where you live). And unlike SVO, it has actually to be processed first.

But the big and rapidly growing around the world band of homebrewers don't mind-- they make a supply each week or as soon as a month and quickly get used to it. Many have actually been doing it for many years.

Anyway you need to process SVO too, especially WVO (waste grease, utilized, prepared), which many individuals with SVO systems utilize due to the fact that it's inexpensive or complimentary for the taking. With WVO food particles and impurities and water need to be eliminated, and it most likely must be deacidified too. Biodieselers state, "If I'm going to have to do all that I might too make biodiesel rather." But SVO types discount that-- it's much less processing than making biodiesel, they state. To each his own.