Used vegetable oil can be used as fuel.
With many concerned about the high cost of automobile fuel, more and more people are looking to alternative fuels like biodiesel and reused waste oils. Information about conversion of diesel autos is spreading quickly, and many brave souls are taking up the challenge to minimize the use of imported petroleum products. Waste vegetable oil is no longer simply an inconvenient by-product of culinary endeavor. It is a viable fuel option to be used like diesel fuel in cars that have been converted to accept the oil.
Instructions
1. Collect the oil into a large plastic bucket with lid. This can be the type of bucket that large quantities of paint or other home improvement products come in. You can often get these for free at businesses that use a lot of these products and have to dispose of the containers. They will be happy to let you take some away if you ask nicely.
2. Let the oil settle for at least 24 hours. Allowing it to settle for two weeks is best. This allows the solid material in the oil to gather at the bottom for easier removal. If you are going to use the waste vegetable oil for fuel, you do not want these large solid particles in your diesel engine
3. Set up your filtering system. You can purchase elaborate filtering and pump systems, but they can be expensive and do little more than a simple homemade filter system. Get an empty plastic bucket with lid. Cut a hole in the top with a box cutter, scoring lines in a circle and then punching out the plastic. Put the filtering cloth or filtering bag into the bucket and put the cut lid on top of it. The third bucket will be your storage tank for the filtered oil. Again score and punch out a slightly larger hole in the lid than the first hole you made. Place the lid on the third bucket, put the second bucket on top of that, fitting it together to hold securely.
4. Pour the oil from your first bucket, your collection bucket, into the bucket with the filter bag. A large funnel, like a radiator filler jug, will work well for this purpose. Try not to lose too much of the waste vegetable oil to spillage.
5. Allow the oil to gradually flow through the filtering cloth or bag into your storage tank bucket. This could take some time, especially if the temperature is cold. The oil will be more viscous in cold temperatures.
6. Allow the oil to settle again so that any remaining particles left in the oil will be left at the bottom. Use only the clean, filtered oil at the top of the storage tank bucket.
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