Recycle My Oil
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As of 2009 the United Sates produces over a 100000000 gallons a year of waste vegetable oil. Filtered Waste Vegetable Oil (WVO) can be used straight in diesel vehicles with conversion kits, or can be refined into bio-diesel - also usable in vehicles. Bio-diesel refining involves some toxic substances - methanol for example - and reduces the cost differential between conventional and recycled fuel. Nerveless there is still a use for the waste product as an alternative to gasoline consumption. One wvo recycling company in Colorado EPR inc. has an oil gathering service that will gather restaurant or food service WVO on a regular basis for free. Many companys make arrangements with restaurants/food service to gather and re-use WVO (with or without further refinement) in their converted cars. Over 45 million tons of greenhouse gases are created every year from the burning of diesel in trucks. The recent fuel prices are cause for inventive ways to act responsible environmentally speaking and one way, is to use waste vegetable oil as a renewable resource of fuel for vehicles. There are so many benefits of using this well to replace fossil fuels and some of these include concentrated air pollution, condensed greenhouse gas emissions, and conservation many other valuable resources found on the planet. 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. If your goal is to go modification free on your diesel your best bet is to use not just WVO but Bio-Diesel. Bio-diesel is a fuel supply that can be made from waste vegetable oil when a chemical reaction is induced between methanol and lye. You can create it from waste vegetable oil that can be collected from most restaurants, or you can use fresh pressed oil but that can be costly. World wide this is being produced today to be sold on the commercial market, due to the fact that anyone can get the right equipment it can even be made in your home. Some of the toxic air pollutants that are abridged include soot, particulates, carbon monoxide, and sulphur oxides, however nitrous oxide emissions may increase slightly.
Mirrored from Mindzle - Living Green Smart - Sustainable Living Articles.