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 straight 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 waste 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!
