| This article is for those who are a little more | | | | for removing the fatty acids from oil. Here is a |
| experienced at | | | | very common and reputable recipe for making |
| making biodiesel at home and who wish to | | | | biodiesel at home from waste oil. |
| progress from using | | | | You will need: Used or fresh vegetable oil (that |
| straight vegetable oil to waste oil. As users of | | | | has been strained so that it is free of particulates |
| biodiesel fuel | | | | such as food crumbs) |
| know vegetable oil will react very similarly to | | | | Lye |
| diesel fuel in a diesel engine. Like diesel fuel, | | | | Methanol |
| biodiesel will ignite when | | | | Isopropyl Alcohol (99% IPA) |
| compressed causing air in the engine cylinders to | | | | eyedropper- or other type of 1 milliliter dropper |
| expand. This is | | | | PH paper (to test for acidity ) |
| the energy that pushes the engine pistons into | | | | an old blender |
| motion.The reason you must make biodiesel is | | | | plastic or glass measuring cups or beakers, with |
| that if you burned straight | | | | metric measures-- |
| unprocessed oils in the diesel engine it would | | | | and/or a gram scale |
| simply congeal and | | | | plastic, glass or stainless stirrers and spoons, |
| then clot your fuel injectors and engine like | | | | plastic buckets 1. Dissolve 1 gram NaOH (Sodium |
| cholesterol hardening | | | | Hydroxide- Lye) in 1000 ml. of water. This is your |
| human arteries.Read more on how to Make Your | | | | NaOH solution. |
| Own Biodiesel There are many biodiesel recipes | | | | 2. |