What emissions are produced?
Compared with diesel, burning VO produces less carbon, no sulfur, and less carbon monoxide. • What type of vegetable oil is best? Non-hydrogenated oils with low cloud-point are the easiest to filter and handle. Canola (AKA rapeseed) is the standard-bearer in Europe. • Where will I find VO to use for fuel? Restaurants that fry with large quantities of oil are a good place to start, if you want to recycle. There is also a growing supply of ready-filtered waste VO and non-food-grade oils on the market. • How do I filter waste VO? There are loads of filtration resources online and for every kind of budget. There are the commercially-available filtration systems with heaters, pumps, centrifuges, hoses, bells, and whistles. And then theres the brown-paper-bag method. The main idea is this: You have a filter in your VO fuel system. You want to remove all water and large particles from your oil pre-fuel-tank, as well as smaller particles that would quickly clog up the fuel lines and filter. Yo
