Bio diesel?

Question

Whats involved to converting to bio deisal? And will it still run on regular diesel?

Answer 1

The heat of the compression in a diesel will burn lube oil. There is nothing to convert ,but be sure of your source and filter it well and no water .

Answer 2

There is a process for biodiesel from waste vegetable oil which makes work it just the same as petrodiesel.  You can run it in any regular diesel engine. Produces glycerine as a byproduct.

Then there is a conversion to let your car run on waste fry oil.  I'm not sure whether that would allow use of regular diesel.

Answer 3

There is no conversion for the vehicle. The vehicle also will run on regular diesel.

Based on a friend who converted his van to run on biodiesel, I recommend:

Do not fill up biodiesel into your regular tank, for two reasons: It needs to be filtered. Set up a separate heavy-duty plastic tank, that is filtered before it enters the existing engine infrastructure. Secondly, biodiesel has a higher viscosity. If you can place it close to the engine, that will help but if you cannot then you will need to devise a method to heat up the biodiesel before it reaches the engine. If you don't, it will gunk up and block passages.

To switch from petrodiesel to biodiesel, he just physically removed the diesel to the biodiesel connections.

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It helps alot if you have introductory knowledge of mechanical engineering. If you don't, there are kits sold that range from 1,000$ or more that will make it easier.