About the book
Run Your Diesel Vehicle on Biofuels is a heavily illustrated guide that shows how to run any diesel engine on vegetable oil, used cooking oil or biodiesel!
Learn how how to run any diesel vehicle on biofuels for a cleaner, more environmentally-friendly ride. Run Your Diesel Vehicle On Biofuels tells you everything you need to know to make the switch from expensive, environment-damaging fossil-fuels to cheap (and, in many cases, free), cleaner fuel for your vehicle.
Practical, empowering and decidedly apolitical, this unique guide focuses on both making biodiesel and on converting your engine to run on vegetable oil. The authors have gone to a great deal of effort to separate erroneous and disingenuous information from the facts, with myth-busting tips and a critical review of how biofuels could truly be sustainable or an eco-nightmare.
Inside you’ll find do-it-yourself, step-by-step, instructions, accompanied by a wealth of helpful illustrations and photographs, for projects such as building your own biodiesel reactor, converting your engine to run directly on vegetable oil and collecting and processing used cooking oil.
Projects include:
- Collecting waste oil
- Building a waste-oil processor
- Making biodiesel
- Building a biodiesel reactor
- Converting your car to run on vegetable oil (SVO)
Run Your Diesel Vehicle on Biofuels covers:
- History of the Diesel Engine
- Benefits of Biofuels
- Where to Obtain Raw Ingredients
- Theory of Fuel Conversion (biodiesel)
- Building a biodiesel reactor
- Engine Conversion (SVO)
- Commercial Available Conversion Kits
- Assembling Your Own Conversion Kit
- Other Solutions Such as Blending and Thinners
- Collecting & Processing Waste Oil (WVO)
- Disposal of Waste
- Law, Regulations and Tax
- Health and Safety
- Limitations of Environmental Benefits