Converting Your Diesel to Vegetable Oil

Converting Your Diesel to Vegetable Oil The diesel engine was originally designed by Rudolf Diesel to run on vegetable oil, and later came to be run on mineral fuels. Rudolf thought that this engine could assist farmers to be more self sustaining, and not... More

Converting Your Diesel to Vegetable Oil The diesel engine was originally designed by Rudolf Diesel to run on vegetable oil, and later came to be run on mineral fuels. Rudolf thought that this engine could assist farmers to be more self sustaining, and not have to rely on outside inputs for their mechanisation. Today most farm vehicles have a diesel motor, which many farmers could be operating from resources grown on their own farm. Today s diesel vehicles are not designed to operate on straight vegetable oil without modification to either the oil or the vehicle. Most people modify the oil into a thinner fuel called Fatty Acid Methyl Esters otherwise known as Biodiesel. At VegieCars, we prefer to modify the Fuel System rather than the fuel. Biodiesel The backyard production of Biodiesel involves building a processing plant which heats the oil, then mixing in a chemical which is a mixture of Methanol and Caustic Soda, called Sodium Methoxide, which acts as a catalyst to break the m Less