Vegetable Oils and Biofuels
Bernadette Ancog
January 12, 2009
Vegetable Oils can be made into Biofuel. First let us define biofuel. Biofuel is comparable to the petroleum-based diesel fuel, it is organic as it is derived from vegetable oil. This is an alternative fuel that came from 100% renewable organic resources.
So what is vegetable oil? It is simply the oil produced or extracted from plants and has similar fuel composition to that of the diesel fuel. Examples are the oil from coconut, peanut, palm, corn, rapeseed, babassu, artichoke, sunflower, soy bean, hemp, perilla, honge (found in India), ben (seeds of the Moringa Oleifera), and many others.
Biofuel can be made from Waste Vegetable Oil (WVO), which is a used vegetable oil, where one can get in restaurants and food manufacturers. Restaurants and Food Manufacturers get rid of their used vegetable oil. That´s why biofuel is very cheap and anyone can convert the WVO at home provided you have the equipment to convert it; but if not, you can get it from anywhere. One such outfit where you can get a WVO centrifuge (replacement for WVO Filters - which can take weeks in filtering the used oil) is www.WVOdesigns.com. What WVO centrifuge can do is converting the used oil to biofuel. This is a replacement of WVO filters. The filtering process of WVO can take several weeks, but through the centrifuge, it will actually maximize the time in filtering the used oil. There are different designs and sizes and WVODesigns.com have one that is very handy.
There are a lot more articles about biofuel and WVO in http://www.wvodesigns.com/index.php/WVO-Blog.html. It´s a very informative site. This is to raise awareness that we all have to be responsible to our environment. If we are not careful in what we do, it will always come back to us. Our environment reflects on what we do with it. Remember, this is not only good for the environment, but it is also an answer to the rising economic crisis especially in the fuel prices. So, think about it. You are not only saving the environment, you are also saving yourself money on the fuel.
So what is vegetable oil? It is simply the oil produced or extracted from plants and has similar fuel composition to that of the diesel fuel. Examples are the oil from coconut, peanut, palm, corn, rapeseed, babassu, artichoke, sunflower, soy bean, hemp, perilla, honge (found in India), ben (seeds of the Moringa Oleifera), and many others.
Biofuel can be made from Waste Vegetable Oil (WVO), which is a used vegetable oil, where one can get in restaurants and food manufacturers. Restaurants and Food Manufacturers get rid of their used vegetable oil. That´s why biofuel is very cheap and anyone can convert the WVO at home provided you have the equipment to convert it; but if not, you can get it from anywhere. One such outfit where you can get a WVO centrifuge (replacement for WVO Filters - which can take weeks in filtering the used oil) is www.WVOdesigns.com. What WVO centrifuge can do is converting the used oil to biofuel. This is a replacement of WVO filters. The filtering process of WVO can take several weeks, but through the centrifuge, it will actually maximize the time in filtering the used oil. There are different designs and sizes and WVODesigns.com have one that is very handy.
There are a lot more articles about biofuel and WVO in http://www.wvodesigns.com/index.php/WVO-Blog.html. It´s a very informative site. This is to raise awareness that we all have to be responsible to our environment. If we are not careful in what we do, it will always come back to us. Our environment reflects on what we do with it. Remember, this is not only good for the environment, but it is also an answer to the rising economic crisis especially in the fuel prices. So, think about it. You are not only saving the environment, you are also saving yourself money on the fuel.
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