Over 45 million tonnes of greenhouse gases are produced every year from the burning of diesel in trucks. Of course we are trying to find new creative ways to save our environment and one way to do this is to use vegetable oil as a renewable source of fuel for transportation and also the use of heating.
There are so many benefits of using this source to replace fossil fuels and some of these include reduced air pollution, reduced greenhouse gas emissions, and conservation of limited fossil fuels. There are two different ways that you can use vegetable oil as a fuel in engines.
The first way is that you can use straight vegetable oil either waste frying oil or fresh- pressed oil, however you will need an extra fuel tank and a system for heating and filtering the oil before it reaches the engine. The reason why you will need this is because pure vegetable oil is too thick to work in the engine unless the oil is heated up.
The other way is to simply convert the vegetable oil into biodiesel which can be used in a diesel engine without any modifications. Biodiesel is a fuel source made from vegetable oil when a chemical reaction occurs between methanol and lye. It can be created either from using waste vegetable oil from the food industry, or you have the other option of using it from fresh-pressed vegetable oil.
This is something that is now being made to sell commercially in thousands of countries all around the world, however with the right equipment and enough time it can also be made right at home. Some of the toxic air pollutants that are reduced include soot, particulates, carbon monoxide, and sulphur oxides, however nitrous oxide emissions may increase slightly.
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