Bio-fuels
I have converted dozens of vehicles to run directly on vegetable oil, make my own biodiesel, built biodiesel reactors, process waste oils into fuel.
I wrote a book on biofuels, biodiesel and vegetable oil for McGraw-Hill, published in 2008 – read more about it here.
There is a lot of confusion with about vegetable oil, waste oil, SVO and biodiesel… I will attempt to explain here:
Biodiesel is vegetable oil, usually used cooking oil, chemically modified to make it more diesel like. This is suitable for almost all diesel vehicles and is the simple way to run on bio-fuels because it requires no conversion of the vehicle.
Vegetable Oil is just that, vegetable oil. Instead of the fuel being modified to make it more compatible with the engine, the engine is modified to make it more compatible with the fuel. Sometimes new cooking oil is used (often referred to as SVO) and sometimes used cooking oil is used (often referred to as UCO or WVO).
Other Solutions exist to make the fuel and/or engine more compatible such as mixing the vegetable oil in other compounds to make it less viscous, I’d treat these as more experimental.
Please read my Words Of Caution for more information.
