Biodiesel is the New Petroleum, Veggie Oil for Gas

Used Vegetable Oil Biodiesel

According to current statistic, theoretically, petroleum will be finished very soon. But practically, petroleum will never finish. When the remaining petroleum starts to decrease, the price for petroleum will increase. Crude oil price on 1861 was $0.49, and prize on June 2008 was $139. At a point where the price of the petroleum is high enough, human will search for alternative energy source. For example: biodiesel. Biodiesel which was expensive to do research and used by human will not be expensive anymore when the petroleum price is high enough. Alternative resources will replace petroleum in future; we will not need petroleum anymore. The use of biodiesel out of waste vegetable oil can be a great help to ease the problem of world’s great demand for fuel.

There are so many benefits of using this source to replace fossil fuels. Some of these include reduced air pollution, reduced greenhouse gas emissions, and conservation of limited fossil fuels. There are two different ways that you can use vegetable oil as a fuel in engines.

The first way is you can use straight vegetable oil either waste frying oil or fresh- pressed oil, however you will need an extra fuel tank and a system for heating and filtering the oil before it reaches the engine. The reason why you will need this is because pure vegetable oil is too thick to work in the engine unless the oil is heated up.

The other way is to simply convert the vegetable oil into biodiesel which can be used in a diesel engine without any modifications. Biodiesel is a fuel source made from vegetable oil when a chemical reaction occurs between methanol and lye. It can be created either from using waste vegetable oil from the food industry, or you have the other option of using fresh-pressed vegetable oil. This is something that is now being made to sell commercially in thousands of countries all around the world.

Either way, both processes can help reduce the world’s great demand for fuel. As of Year 2000 up to date, United States alone was producing in excess of 11 billion liters of waste vegetable oil annually, mainly from industrial deep fryers in potato processing plants, snack food factories and fast food restaurants. If we can just make this waste vegetable oil be converted into biodiesel, almost 1% Of US oil consumption can be offset. Plus the fact that it can also help save our environment. Some of the toxic air pollutants can be reduced including soot, particulates, carbon monoxide, and sulphur oxides. Waste vegetable oils can be a great source of money, from waste to money, by converting it to biodiesel.

To know more, visit www.wvodesigns.com. The goal of this site is to provide detailed design information relating to the use of Waste Vegetable Oil as fuel. Designs include vehicle conversion, collection systems and processing equipment. They have also developed centrifuge for processing WVO, WMO and Bio-diesel.

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