Run Your Diesel Vehicle on Biofuels: Do-It-Yourself Manual. Make Your Own Fuel, Convert Your Car

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Run Your Diesel Vehicle on Biofuels has all the information you need to make the switch from expensive, environment-damaging carbon fuel to cheap (and, in many cases, free), clean fuel for your car. Practical and decidely apolitical, this unique guide focuses on technical details, parts, and instructions for even the most inexperienced of "home-brew" biodiesel hobbyists.

Inside you'll find step-by-step instructions accompanied by helpful illustrations for such projects as building and properly using a homemade biodiesel reactor, which enables you to power your car on vegetable oil purchased at a fraction of the price of gas--or even on second-hand oil obtained from restaurants free of charge.

Run Your Diesel Vehicle on Biofuels also includes a list of international parts suppliers and various manufacturers' warranty statuses regarding vehicles converted to biodiesel.

Projects Include

• Collecting Waste Oil
• Building a Waste Oil-Processor
• Creating Biodiesel Fuel
• Converting Your Car to Professional Standards
• Constructing Heat Exchangers

Table of Contents

Foreword | Preface | Acknowledgments

• Chapter 1. Introduction
• Chapter 2. History of Diesel and the diesel engine
• Chapter 3. How does a diesel engine work?
• Chapter 4. Collecting waste vegetable oil
• Chapter 5. Biodiesel chemistry
• Chapter 6. Fuel modification: making biodiesel
• Chapter 7. Biodiesel reactors and processors
• Chapter 8. Engine modification--running on SVO
• Chapter 9. Using WVO in your SVO engine
• Chapter 10. Other options and solutions
• Chapter 11. Engine conversion or fuel conversion
• Chapter 12. Waste streams
• Chapter 13. Health and safety
• Chapter 14. Biofuel ethics
• Chapter 15. Biodiesel and vegetable oil are not just for cars!
• Chapter 16. Epilogue

Appendix | Index

About the Authors

Jon Starbuck has written websites and taught courses on the subject of vegetable oil and biodiesel. Gavin D. J. Harper is the author of McGraw-Hill's Solar Energy Projects for the Evil Genius and other project books.

Run Your Diesel Vehicle on Biofuels: Do-It-Yourself Manual. Make Your Own Fuel, Convert Your Car