Biodiesel is a diesel fuel that is made by reacting vegetable oil (cooking oil) with other common chemicals. Biodiesel may be used in any diesel automotive engine in its pure form or blended with petroleum-based diesel. No modifications are required, and the result is a less-expensive, renewable, clean-burning fuel.
Correspondingly, can I burn vegetable oil in my diesel truck?
Assuming you have a diesel engine, you could use vegetable oil with no other modifications. However, vegetable oil has very high viscosity. It’s so thick that the engine has a hard time atomizing the fuel completely when it is sprayed into the combustion chamber.
Subsequently, how do you use diesel cooking oil?
The waste cooking oil is refined into biodiesel by a process called ‘transesterification’. This changes the molecular structure so that it behaves like mineral diesel refined from hydrocarbon oils. To use biodiesel, you do NOT need to modify your vehicle – you use it as you would use normal diesel fuel.
How is used cooking oil converted to biodiesel?
Transesterification process
Biodiesel is produced from triglycerides in the presence of alcohol with catalyst through transesterification reaction. The biodiesel production from waste cooking oil with methanol in the presence of nano-sized calcium oxide nano-catalyst was done at a laboratory scale.