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CONVERT TO BIODIESEL FOR A MORE ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY RIDE
Run Your Diesel Vehicle on Biofuels has everything you need to make the switch from expensive, environment-damaging carbon fuel to cheap (and, in many cases, free), clean fuel for your vehicle. Practical and decidedly apolitical, this unique guide focuses on technical details, parts, and instructions.Inside, you'll find step-by-step instructions accompanied by helpful illustrations for such projects as building and properly using a homemade biodiesel reactor, which enables you to drive you car on vegetable oil purchased at a fraction of the price of gas or even on second-hand oil obtained from restaurants free of charge. Run Your Diesel Vehicle on Biofuels also includes a list of international parts suppliers and various manufacturers' warranty statuses regarding vehicles converted to biodiesel.
Projects include:
- Collecting waste oil
- Building a waste-oil processor
- Creating biodiesel fuel
- Converting your car to professional standards
- Constructing heat exchangers
Run Your Diesel Vehicle on Biofuels covers:
• History and functions of the diesel engine • Benefits of biofuel • Where to obtain raw ingredients • Theory of fuel conversion • Existing conversion kits o Blends, emulsions, and thinners • Processing and discarding waste oil • Laws and regulations • Green retail o Health and safety • Limitations of environmental benefits
About the Author
Jon Starbuck has written websites and taught courses on the subject of vegetable oil and biodiesel.
Gavin D. J. Harper is the author of McGraw-Hill's Solar Energy Projects for the Evil Genius and other project books.
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20 of 20 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Run Your Diesel Vehicle on Biofuels: A Do-It-Yourself Manual
I really rate this book, the authors have done an excellent job of bringing DIY-biodiesel-books right up to date. Some of the bestselling biodiesel books out there are painfully out of date, some full of dangerous advice and information, and this is not one of them.
Of course this book is not just about biodiesel, in fact only about half of it is, it brings together all the other options too; such as engine conversion, running on straight vegetable oil or used chip-shop oil, how to convert your engine, how to make biodiesel, how to clean used oil, how to test your fuel is up to the job; it even tells you how to tell the con-men from the good guys and has a small section on "other options" such as blending vegetable oils with solvents.
Pitched at audiences both sides of the Atlantic, neither overly technical or simplistic, the book is friendly in tone, easy to read, hundreds of illustrations and dozens of DIY projects.
As the authors say themselves: "there is nothing in the book which you can't find on the Internet for free" but a book is a much nicer thing to read and the Internet is full of nonsense and idiots who don't know what they are talking about. This book does a brilliant job of separating the BS from the facts.
Highly recommended, whatever your level of experience with Biofuels, this book is the best I have read on the subject.
I really rate this book, the authors have done an excellent job of bringing DIY-biodiesel-books right up to date. Some of the bestselling biodiesel books out there are painfully out of date, some full of dangerous advice and information, and this is not one of them.
Of course this book is not just about biodiesel, in fact only about half of it is, it brings together all the other options too; such as engine conversion, running on straight vegetable oil or used chip-shop oil, how to convert your engine, how to make biodiesel, how to clean used oil, how to test your fuel is up to the job; it even tells you how to tell the con-men from the good guys and has a small section on "other options" such as blending vegetable oils with solvents.
Pitched at audiences both sides of the Atlantic, neither overly technical or simplistic, the book is friendly in tone, easy to read, hundreds of illustrations and dozens of DIY projects.
As the authors say themselves: "there is nothing in the book which you can't find on the Internet for free" but a book is a much nicer thing to read and the Internet is full of nonsense and idiots who don't know what they are talking about. This book does a brilliant job of separating the BS from the facts.
Highly recommended, whatever your level of experience with Biofuels, this book is the best I have read on the subject.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
If you are interested in the biofuel field then you could give yourself a head start with this well written and well presented book. When you become interested in a subject it can be difficult to be sure of your sources of information and this book provides not only good basic information but more importantly points you towards others who can further your studies both in the UK and America.
If you intend to make your own biodiesel then I strongly recommend you get this book first, and save the time, trouble, and money that you will nodoubt waste if you buy your equipment on the basis of most sellers claims.
If you intend to make your own biodiesel then I strongly recommend you get this book first, and save the time, trouble, and money that you will nodoubt waste if you buy your equipment on the basis of most sellers claims.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
There are a few books on biodiesel but this one is the most up to date (some of the others are quite dated). It gives very practical step by step instructions and everything else you need to make and use biodiesel or veg oil to run your vehicle. I'd thoroughly recommend it.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Business Saboteur
This man is a saboteur and a cad. He is scared and to protect his own dangerous technology he systematically discredits other technology in direct competition to his. Read more
Published 4 months ago by The Future
Biofuels
Very interesting reading and a comprehensive overview to making bio-diesel, both from fresh and waste oils. Read more
Published 5 months ago by ADCOCKERELL
Caution!
Anyone thinking of converting to Bio-Fuel needs to proceed with caution!- Short & long term damage is a real possibility with modern cars! Read more
Published 5 months ago by Mr. John Hickman
Very detailed
Enormous amount of practical, well-presented information. It could have been hard work for me to get through but it wasn't. Highly recommended.
Published 17 months ago by Elizabeth O
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