Posted on February 3, 2010.
Vegetable oil used for biodiesel More than 45 million tons of greenhouse gas emissions are produced each year by the combustion of diesel trucks. Of course we are trying to find new and creative ways to save our environment and how to do is to use vegetable oil as a renewable source of fuel for transport and use of heating.
There are so many advantages of using this source to replace fossil fuels and some of these include reduced air pollution, reducing emissions of greenhouse gases, and conservation of limited fossil fuels. There are two ways that you can use vegetable oil as fuel in engines.
The first is that you can use vegetable oil or waste cooking oil or fresh-pressed oil, but you'll need an extra tank and a heating and filtering the oil before that it reaches the engine. The reason you need it is because pure vegetable oil is too thick to work in the engine unless the oil is heated up.
The other way is simply to convert vegetable oil into biodiesel that can be used in a diesel engine without modification. Biodiesel is a fuel made from vegetable oil when a chemical reaction occurs between methanol and lye. It can be created either using waste vegetable oil from the food industry, or if you have the possibility of further use of oil from vegetables in a hurry.
This is something that is now underway to sell commercially on thousands of countries around the world, but with the right equipment and enough time it can also be done right at home. Some toxic air pollutants that are reduced include soot, particulates, carbon monoxide and oxides of sulfur, nitrous oxide, however, may increase slightly.
