SVO:
Powering Your Vehicle With Straight Vegetable Oil
by Forest Gregg
The
benefits of straight vegetable oil (SVO) as an alternate fuel
for diesel engines are many. SVO is cheap, carbon-neutral, uses
a waste product, and does not depend upon centralized corporate
infrastructure.
Authors
Christopher Goodwin and Forest Gregg are the founder and designer,
respectively, of Frybrid, the most respected vegetable oil conversion
company in the United States. They have many combined years of
expertise in the use of straight vegetable oil as a fuel and have
sifted through the masses of contradictory, erroneous, and confusing
information on the subject, extracting the very best information
available.
Chapters
include:
Vegetable
oil sources, extraction, and refining
Viscosity
Chemical degradation
Fuel properties
Contaminants
System design
Engine modifications
SVO is the only book available that explains exactly what is necessary
to convert a diesel vehicle and how to do it properly. It gives
readers the tools to sort through the different companies and
online plans to find something that works well. While technical
in nature, this fully illustrated book is very accessible. Each
concept is introduced and described in great detail.
Designed
to educate new consumers, it is also a resource for current conversion
owners.
