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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 huge oil business offer 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 used cooking oil it's not just cheap but you'll be recycling a problematic waste item. Most importantly is the GREAT feeling of freedom, self-reliance and empowerment it will give you. Here's how to do it-- everything you require to know.

Straight veggie oil fuel (SVO) systems can be a tidy, effective and affordable option. Unlike biodiesel, with SVO you need to customize the engine. The finest way 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 instance you can utilize petro-diesel, biodiesel or SVO, in any combination. Just launch and go, stop and turn off, like any other vehicle. Journey to Forever's Toyota TownAce van utilizes an Elsbett single-tank system. More

There are also 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 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 info 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 modifications to the engine or the fuel system-- simply put it in and go. It likewise has better cold-weather homes than SVO (but not as great as petro-diesel-- see Using biodiesel in winter). Unlike SVO,

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

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

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

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 quickly get used to it. Many have actually been doing it for many years.

Anyway you need to too, specifically WVO (waste vegetable oil, utilized, cooked), which lots of people with SVO systems use because it's cheap or totally free for the taking. With WVO food particles and pollutants 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 may too make biodiesel instead." But SVO types belittle that-- it's much less processing than making biodiesel, they say. To each his own.