Although I've heard of using
leftover cooking oil for biodiesel fuel production, the idea seemed out of reach for many homeowners (or even small restaurants and fast-food joints) who would love to turn a trashed item into a revenue producer or fuel for something else.
If you're into investigating this premise completely, there are apparently several resources that will teach you how to refine that used cooking oil into an alternative fuel for use in, well, whatever. Have a need to run an engine on biodiesel? This may be worth looking into, once you've done the math on return on investment.
The FuelPod2 product takes that
leftover cooking oil and converts it into biodiesel from a unit no larger than a smaller home propane tank. It operates by compressor and looks like it could be stashed int he corner of a garage or even in a small shed.
The technology here is very interesting, the the Fuel2Pod looks like a commercially available product with the potential to power quite a few diesel engines using all that leftover cooking oil. The only problem is that we'd all need to eat more foods prepared in cooking oil. What's your choice?
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Better FuelPod2 link: http://www.greenfuels.co.uk/news.htm
ReplyJudging by surrounding McDonalds and other fast food joints, there's no shortage of used cooking oil. And those places will usually happily arrange for you to take it, since they normally have to pay someone to come get it.
Diesel engines can also just use the cooking oil itself (filtered, of course). This requires blending with real diesel fuel, or using a mechansim to switch to oil once the engine has started on regular diesel and the oil has heated enough to flow properly.