Conversion of Diesel Vehicle into Vegetable Oil Vehicle

Conversion of diesel vehicle engine into a bio-diesel vehicle is fairly a straightforward process. You can do it yourself if you have the know-how. There many firms to do in the market.

• Diesel, bio-diesel and vegetable oil differences: People know well about diesel. But when it comes to bio-diesel and vegetable oil as fuel, most people are using this alternatively. It is because, most of the diesel engines can run on some form of vegetable oils, bio-diesel and diesel.

• Diesel: This is the actual diesel for what the diesel engines designed and available in the gas stations.
• Bio-diesel: Rather than crude petroleum, it is developed from vegetable oil. It is developed through transesterification process. In this process, the oil chemically reacts with alcohol.
• Vegetable oil: This is the oil that we use in kitchen. It is commonly derived from hemp, palm, corn, soy and other vegetables.

• Components: You need individual components or conversion kit to do the job. The basic components are a cable loom, control electronics, a heat exchanger, an electric fuel oil heater, an electric switching unit, a controller and an optional fuel tank. The second fuel tank is required to store an amount of diesel for ignition and the vegetable oil. To switch between tanks, the switching unit is useful. The heat exchanger and heater are useful to increase the temperature of vegetable oil up to a required point for efficient fuel burning.

• Second tank and fuel conversion kit: If you have the confidence to install the conversion kit do it, do it yourself. Otherwise, let the mechanic do it. The conversion kit contains a second tank, fuel preheater, a heat exchanger, a controller for switching fuels as mentioned above. The second tank contains vegetable oil. Vehicle will start with the diesel. You can switch to vegetable oil once the engine is warm enough. Before the vegetable oil enters into the fuel injector, through the heat exchanger hoses will run into the second tan to heat oil.

• Vegetable oil: You can get the vegetable oil either purchasing new or acquire from a used form. Some restaurants will give it for free to avoid the charge of disposing and hassle. You have to remove all the food particulars from it using oil filter.

• Installation process: Most kits available in the market at present are designed for do it yourself. You can understand these easily by seeing. Fix the second fuel tank that contains vegetable oil. Seals and rubber hoses from older vehicles are disreputable after a long time exposure to heated vegetable oil, they will break down. If you find a new set of additional filters hoses and seals, include them in installation. You need to set up a system which pumps waste heat from radiator to vegetable oil or second tank. If the kit do not have it, you need alternative to keep it heat and to run the fuel system smoothly.

Vegetable oil or bio-diesel are more environmental friendly than traditional combustion oils. These are cheaper too. Before conversion of your diesel oil engine into vegetable oil engine, make sure that your vehicle engine supports bio fuel compatible.