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 companies 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 utilized cooking oil it’s not just cheap but you’ll be recycling a frustrating waste item. Best of all is the GREAT sensation of freedom, self-reliance 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 clean, effective and economical choice. Unlike biodiesel, with SVO you need to customize the engine. The very best way is to fit an expert 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 mix. Just start up 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 common petroleum diesel or biodiesel in one tank and then 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 advantages over SVO: it operates 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 homes than SVO (however not as excellent as petro-diesel-- see Using in winter season). Unlike SVO,

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

Biodiesel is a tidy, safe, ready-to-use, alternative fuel, whereas it’s fair to say that many 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 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 once a month and quickly get utilized to it. Many have actually been doing it for years.

Anyway you have to process SVO too, specifically WVO (waste veggie oil, used, prepared), which lots of people with SVO systems use since it’s cheap or complimentary for the taking. With WVO food particles and pollutants and water should be eliminated, and it most likely must be deacidified too. Biodieselers say, “If I’m going to need to do all that I might too make biodiesel instead.” But SVO types discount that-- it’s much less processing than making biodiesel, they state. To each his own.