Anybody can make biodiesel. It’s easy, you can make it in your cooking area-- and it’s BETTER than the petro-diesel fuel the huge oil business sell 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 troublesome waste product. Best of all is the GREAT sensation of liberty, 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 option. Unlike biodiesel, with SVO you have 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 instance you can utilize petro-diesel, biodiesel or SVO, in any combination. Just launch and go, stop and turn off, like any other automobile. Journey to Forever’s Toyota TownAce van utilizes 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 ordinary petroleum diesel or biodiesel in one tank and then change to SVO in the other tank when the veg-oil is hot enough, and switch 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 site.

3. Biodiesel or SVO?

has some clear advantages over SVO: it operates 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 residential or commercial properties than SVO (but not as good as petro-diesel-- see Using biodiesel in winter season). Unlike SVO,

it’s backed by lots of long-term tests in lots of countries, consisting of countless miles on the roadway.

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

On the other hand, biodiesel can be more expensive, depending just how much you make, what you make it from and whether you’re comparing it with new oil or used oil (and depending upon where you live). And unlike SVO, it has actually to be processed initially.

But the large and rapidly growing around the world band of homebrewers don’t mind-- they make a supply every week or once a month and quickly get utilized to it. Many have been doing it for many years.

Anyway you have to process SVO too, specifically WVO (waste grease, utilized, cooked), which many individuals with SVO systems utilize since it’s inexpensive or complimentary for the taking. With WVO food particles and impurities and water need to be removed, and it most likely ought to be deacidified too. Biodieselers say, “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 state. To each his own.