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How to Make Biodiesel [Paperback]

Dave Derby , Jon Halle
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  • Paperback: 124 pages
  • Publisher: Low-Impact Living Initiative; 1st ed. edition (1 Mar 2005)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0954917103
  • ISBN-13: 978-0954917104
  • Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 15.6 x 0.7 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 172,391 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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How To Make Biodiesel is a practical guide to how to make diesel fuel from vegetable oil. It covers the environmental benefits of biodiesel, gives a beginners' introduction to the chemistry involved, step by step instructions, and also explains the legal situation for making biodiesel in the UK.

About the Author

Jon Hallé and Dan Carter
are directors of GoldenFuels Ltd, a biodiesel production cooperative in Oxfordshire, UK: goldenfuels.com. Jon and Dan tutor on LILI’s biodiesel course.

Dave Darby
is director of LILI.


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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
credentials 24 Dec 2007
By booyaka
Format:Paperback
I live near Oxford, and I buy biodiesel from the authors. They set up a workers co-operative and built a commercial plant in 2003 and have been supplying high-quality biodiesel from 100% waste oil since then. They have designed and used domestic reactors. They run about 8-10 biodiesel courses a year for LILI and for CAT. Very few people know more about biodiesel and if there are excerpts from this book on Wikipedia, then they were copied from the book, not the other way round.
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A must for all of you interested in recycling, renewables and saving money.

If you have any engines that run on diesel (e.g. car, boat, generator), and an interest in chemistry then this book is for you.

It is very well structured with explanations in the right order so that everything makes sense.

The background surrounding environmental issues and how a diesel engine actually works are covered before moving onto the chemistry of biodiesel manufacture and what is needed for a reactor.

The chemistry section is explained very clearly, albeit longwinded (which it has to be due to the nature of the subject - remember organic chemistry lectures - say no more!).

By the time you're reading the section about the reactor, you will already be thinking how you are going to clear a space in the garden shed and start building.

The last main section of the book explains how to go about doing it all legally and keeping Customs & Excise happy.

I reccomend this to anyone who is interested in setting up their own reactor to produce biodiesel - the fuel of the future.

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This book contains a recipe for making biodiesel on your own, but I wouldn't follow it.

The book looks a little like it's copied piecemeal from various websites, and it propagates a lot of the myths about biodiesel [...]. The authors don't have any credentials that they tell us of, and they don't cite many sources, and sometimes the ones they cite are parodies. At least one of them was a wikipedia clone!

Making biodiesel is serious business, you'll be dealing with explosive fumes, and methanol can easily blind and kill you if you're careless or unlucky. While the authors do warn about that, it seems like they've done most of their research for this book on web forums, and that does not inspire confidence.
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