Vegetable Oil Diesel

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Fill your tank with vegetable oil Diesel engines can run on just about anything, including used cooking oil. An entire industry is emerging to provide brave 'biodiesel' pioneers with the ingredients for petroleum-free motoring. Greasecar Vegetable Fuel Systems The Greasecar Vegetable Oil Conversion System is an auxiliary fuel modification system that allows all diesel vehicles to run on straight vegetable oil in any climate. Greasy solution to high fuel prices Kretschmer, a New York city resident and Block Island weekender, avoids the vicissitudes of fuel prices by running his 1985 Mercedes diesel station wagon off used vegetable oil. Recipe for biodiesel from used cooking oil Vegetable oil will react very similarly to diesel fuel under the conditions inside a diesel engine; i.e. when it is highly compressed, it will heat up and ignite, causing the air in the cylinder to expand, and to push the pistons, in time. Straight vegetable oil as diesel fuel Vegetable oil can be used as diesel fuel just as it is, without being converted to biodiesel. The downside is that straight vegetable oil (SVO) is much more viscous (thicker) than conventional diesel fuel or biodiesel, and it doesn't burn the same in the engine Using Vegetable oil as a diesel fuel Vegetable oil comes in very many shapes and sizes, with varying properties. The most important consideration is melting point. Vegetable Oil as Vehicle Fuel This is a how-to on using veg oil to make your diesel car go, easily, safely and cheaply. It's really very easy, very green and very legal. Veggie Powered My car is a Peugeot 405 TD with a two tank kit from Neoteric in Canada. With a two tank system you start the car on diesel, or bio-diesel, and switch over to veggie via a 6 port valve when the car has warmed up