yes some fuel pumps won’t tolerate it but you can still make bio-diesel with vegetable oil to run it on those vechicles by adding lye/sodium hydroxide & methanol but this is very dangerous process there are some dodgy bio-diesel processors being sold on eBay and good sensible advice is always paramount when making bio-diesel.

as for it being illegal that’s a load of rubbish as well,In the UK anyone can burn up to 2,495 litres of vegetable oil a year in their car (providing it is suitable) Tax free that’s a cool 555 gallons of fuel.

if your car does around 60 mpg then that’s over 33,000 miles, cleaning the oil by filtering it can mean it costs as little as 10p to process or as much as 70p to process, I’d still rather pay 70p a litre that the current £1.38 for diesel.

Mileage is similar to that of diesel and it is necessary to add 5 or 10% petrol to the oil in the winter to aid starting because veg oil doesn’t have any anti-freeze in it and becomes thicker when the weather is colder, in the summer months you can simply run the car on neat filtered veg oil. people who make bio-diesel run cars that are not compatible to run on plain veg oil.

The hardest thing these days is finding a reliable supply of liquid waste vegetable oil, paperwork must be filled out and waste transfer notes must be handed out to suppliers.

so all this guff about it being illegal is a nonsense in the UK. That kind of free advice is usually born of jealousy and these types are the idiots who know nothing but will try it on and tell tales to the environment agency who will pay you a visit only to confirm that you are not using red diesel as fuel. which is illegal.

want to save yourself 2 to 3 grand a year? my filter system is a bit more technical and initially cost £200 to set up but paid for itself in three months. so if you have half a day a week to spare you could save yourself a packet and prevent a lot of waste veg being tipped down the drains at the back of restaurants and takeaways which ultimately ends up in our watercourses and rivers.

the cost of filling my 2.0 litre diesel tank these days is around £15 a tankful against £89 for ordinary diesel. I even had a jealous neighbor try to report me for filling the car up with anything but road diesel the inspectors sent me a report certificating my veg oil process as safe and meeting current regulations, no further action was taken. if you exceed the 2,495 litre per year allowance then you pay tax on the whole amount, this is why it is important to keep records of usage.

all the waste solids I create from the filtering process is collected free by a bio-diesel maker so there is no waste left unprocessed, the by product from making bio-diesel is soap, the soap can be used in garages/gardens to wash your hands in.

So lets have no more of this it is illegal nonsense do the if your interested do the research and dont take the word of someone who clearly doesn’t know what he/she is talking about.

Just to make everyone aware who recycle their used cooking for free, you can actually sell it to a company such as ourselves (www.webuywasteoil.co.uk) and we will then process the waste oil accordingly.

You might as well make some money if you are planning to recycle it!

Regards,
Scott

why do people get away with scaremongering when in fact they nothing at all about a particular subject?

We are currently working on a project recycling used engine oil to a low grade heating oil. There is a free collection service nationwide for anyone with 200l. Used engine oil has some potentially nasty properties so be careful moving it about.

I’d look for some information on old cooking oil as there may be implications for your health working with it as a wood treatment. We’re assured that oil engine oil is excellent at this job too.

Besides lighting a BBQ or fireplace fire, is there any other use or way to recycle? The oil is “clean” as in, never having been used, but truly rancid, as in bad-smelling and tasting. Help, please?

“Recycle That Cooking Oil”
Pilot program hopes to connect Fryolators to boiler rooms
http://www.bu.edu/today/2009/09/28/recycling-cooking-oil

Why not give it a try!

http://www.livingfuels.co.uk

“One of the old blokes on our allotment site uses old veg oil for weather proofing exterior woodwork- fences and such.”

So wouldn’t there be a risk the fences get eaten by critters too?

I’m in California and didn’t want to throw out my old cooking oil. Is there somewhere I can take it or will someone pick it up?

Thanks,
Mario

for further information on fat, oil and grease disposal

Stump Removal

To remove a stump for free, just pour any salty, oily cooking liquid onto the area you want removed. Bacon grease is especially effective. The small gnawing animals will come out and chew the wood to get the salt and oil. A large porcupine can chew up to three inches off a section all by himself. They are notorious for destroying wooden tool handles to get the salt left from sweat.

I am working on stump number three of six on my neighbor’s property. It has taken five years to destroy two large pine stumps and number three is about 50% gone. You cannot even see where the first one was, the second is hard to spot, and the third is going fast.

–hope this helps?

esterize to produce biodiesel and glycerine. glycerine can then be mixed with unused oil to make soap (coconut oil is best) and biodiesel can be used neat in diesel engines. change the fuel filter after the first few tanks and make sure the engine has no rubber parts (if older than 1992).

above all – don’t reuse for cooking. once heated more than a couple of times the molecular bonds change creating trans fatty acids which stick to the inside of arteries and cause more problems than saturated fat.

cheers