Running a Diesel Car on a Used Cooking Oil

It is known throughout that diesel engines were originally designed to run on vegetable oil and to the mechanical and technical person, the diesel engine was invented by Rudolf Diesel. He was the one who came up with the idea of combusting engine using a vegetable oil. In the modern times, not all engines are equipped to use vegetable oil as fuel without some additional processing or conversions.

To be able for any ordinary diesel engine to accept vegetable oil, WVO centrifuges and filters were created to help in the conversion process. To convert the vegetable oil into a biofuel, one has to simply heat the vegetable oil in the tank or fuel lines before it is injected directly to the engine. An extra tank is needed for this process, a heater system for heating it and a filter to avoid clogging. Filtration can take weeks, but there is another way to maximize the filtration process, and that is by the use of WVO centrifuges.

A common way to do it is to start your engine using the petroleum-based diesel fuel for a certain time until the vegetable heats up. Getting the right temperature will automatically get the engine to switch to the vegetable oil as fuel. Once the car is switched off, the engine will switch back to the standard diesel to clear the fuel lines of vegetable oil preparing for the next time it is going to be used.

Climate is an obstacle to using vegetable oil, so it is best to heat the vegetable oil properly as it may harden. The key to this is to have the vegetable oil in liquefied form to flow smoothly in the fuel lines.

Of course there are other ways of running your car using vegetable oil. Best to have your engine converted into a vegetable oil ready. It may cost some money, but the cost of conversion is far outweighed by what you can save using vegetable oil.

So where can you get vegetable oil? Easy, you can get them from your own kitchen or in restaurants and food manufacturers. All you need is a good filtration equipment and voila! You are ready to go!

The Power Generated from Waste Vegetable Oil

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We all know that Waste Vegetable Oil can be converted to Biodiesel. To get the total understanding of what a biodiesel is, this refers to a non-petroleum-based diesel fuel that consist of short chain alkyl esters (methyl or ethyl) through the process of transesterification of the vegetable oil or animal fat which can either be used alone or blended together with conventional petrodiesel in unmodified diesel engines.

Biodiesel is distinguished from the straight vegetable oil (SVO) used as fuels in some converted diesel engines.

How biodiesel was discovered and where… goes back to 1937 in Belgium. It was discovered by G. Chavanne of the University of Brussels when they were performing the procedure for the transformation of vegetable oil for their uses as fuels.

There are many uses for biodiesel. It can either be used in its pure form or can be blended with petroleum diesel as what we have stated above, at any concentration in most modern diesel engines. Biodiesel has different solvent properties than petrodiesel and will degrade natural rubber gaskets and hoses in vehicles (mostly the ones manufactured before 1992). One thing about biodiesel is that it has been known to break down deposits of residue in the fuel lines where petrodiesel has been used.

Biodiesel is distributed globally. Their sources are everywhere – you can get them in your own homes, local markets, restaurants and in food manufacturers. Waste Vegetable oil is the way to go for a healthy and clean living; as well as being cost-effective it really is the best alternative fuel.

There are a lot of resources there concerning WVO. Be part of raising awareness to the uses of waste vegetable oil. For more information on Waste Vegetable Oil and how to convert them into biofuel, you can visit www.wvodesigns.com. Think about the future and think about the next generation. The success of the future depends on how well man takes care of his environment. Earth matters no matter what.