Biodiesel Expansion

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This article is for those who are a little more experienced at making biodiesel at home and who wish to progress from using straight vegetable oil to waste oil. As users of biodiesel fuel know vegetable oil will react very similarly to diesel fuel in a diesel engine. Like diesel fuel, biodiesel will ignite when compressed causing air in the engine cylinders to expand. This is the energy that pushes the engine pistons into motion.

The reason you must make biodiesel is that if you burned straight unprocessed oils in the diesel engine it would simply congeal and then clot your fuel injectors and engine like cholesterol hardening human arteries.

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There are many biodiesel recipes for removing the fatty acids from oil.

Here is a very common and reputable recipe for making biodiesel at home from waste oil.

You will need:

Used or fresh vegetable oil (that has been strained so that it is free of particulates such as food crumbs) Lye Methanol Isopropyl Alcohol (99% IPA) eyedropper- or other type of 1 milliliter dropper PH paper (to test for acidity ) an old blender plastic or glass measuring cups or beakers, with metric measures– and/or a gram scale plastic, glass or stainless stirrers and spoons, plastic buckets

1. Dissolve 1 gram NaOH (Sodium Hydroxide- Lye) in 1000 ml. of water. This is your NaOH solution. 2.

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