Links

Links to sites of interest to SVO converters

Please feel free to contact to have your site included or if you are unhappy to have your site linked.

These links are not often updated.
For more recent technical information see the OBED wiki
http://wiki.obed.org.uk

SVO Discussion

http://www.vegetableoildiesel.co.uk/forum/index.php
Goat Industries UK based discussion forum

http://pub41.bravenet.com/forum/show.php?usernum=3470269378
UK based web discussion forum - limited archive and not widely used

http://biodiesel.infopop.cc/6/ubb.x?a=frm&s=447609751&f=159605551
SVO section of the larges vegoil fuels web discussion forum. USA based

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vegoil-diesel
UK based e-mail discussion group

UK SVO

http://www.doctordiesel.co.uk
http://www.veggiediesel.co.uk
Infrormative site with details of fuel injection equipment with expereinces from experimenting with vegetable oil.

http://www.goatindustries.co.uk
Info and conversion kits

http://www.biofuels.fsnet.co.uk/challenge.htm
Biodiesel site with interesting assessment of SVO use check..

http://www.dieselveg.com
Commercial SVO conversions.

http://www.vegoilmotoring.com/
Daniel Blackburn gives SVO info

http://www.veggiepower.org.uk
Information about vegetable oil fuels

http://www.geocities.com/vegoilcar
Info and conversions

http://www.geocities.com/vegbiofuel/
information about conversions

European SVO

http://www.folkecenter.net/gb/rd/transport/plant_oil/
Danish NGO promoting SVO and other Renewables, lots of good info.

http://www.bv-pflanzenoele.de/index.html
German PPO/SVO association

http://www.oilpress.com
Swedish company that makes oil presses. Info on SVO conversions

http://www.elsbett.com
German company running vehicles on vegoil since the 1970's
Offer a kit that converts vehicles to run solely on vegetable oil.

http://people.freenet.de/sthl/
German SVO site good info

http://personal.inet.fi/yritys/ekolaiho/mustarddiesel.html
A Finnish project with straight mustard oil/diesel mix no conversion

http://www.rerorust.de/
German site Mercedes diesel SVO no conversion

http://www.biocar.de/
German company offering SVO kits. Site also contains research paper looking at running vehicles on vegoil through a biocar kit(in German) Part English translation available here (thanks Stephan)

http://rapsoel.onlinehome.de/images/com.tipps_zum_umbau.htm
German site detailing VW Passat 1.9Tdi conversion

http://www.diesel-therm.com/
German company offering SVO kits

http://www.fmso.de/
German site containing extensive forum and database with details of hundreds of vehicles running vegoil.

http://www.biodrive.ch/
Swiss conversion kits and fuel grade waste oil supplies.

http://home.arcor.de/strutzberg/Auto/Ge_En/vw_passat_b4.htm
German site detailing VW Passat 1.9Tdi conversion

http://www.jatropha.org/
German site promoting use of oil plants for energy in developing countries

http://www.solaroilsystems.com
Dutch site offering Elsbett conversions and promoting SVO use in Europe

http://www.pflanzenoel-auto.de
Vegetable oil in the Citroen Xantia - experiences and tips
German site, good information even if you dont have a Xantia

http://www.rapsmobil.de/
VW Combi conversion with lots of fabricated parts

http://www.salatoel-kombi.tk
Soenke's salad oil site. Good SVO info from Germany. Lots of VW info. IP reactions to SVO

http://www.fatty-fuels.de/
German forum with lots of good links.

http://www.pflanzenoel-motor.de
The united workshops for vegetable oil technology (VWP). Quality SVO conversions by experienced company. Converting tractors for the '100 tractor program' where new tractors are being converted for single tank SVO and monitored.

http://www.frittenoel.de.tt
BIGmics' plantoil heaters

http://home.t-online.de/home/ulf_hausmann/Umbau.htm
Golf TD conversion.

http://fmpo.de/poelforum/index.php
German forum

http://www.pflanzenoeltechnik-nord.de
German conversions company

http://www.salatoelbomber.de
German conversions

http://www.oliomobile.org
French website lots of information.

http://www.eilishoils.com/
Irish company offering

http://www.rapoleum.com/index.php
Irish farmers producing rape fuel

USA and Canada SVO

http://webconx.green-trust.org
alternative energy web site. SVO and biofuel info.

http://www.veggievan.org.
USA based biodiesel and SVO site co-hosts the best english language SVO message forum and offers a book about SVO and Biodiesel

http://www.geocities.com/vwfatmobile

http://www.greasecar.com/
Hampshire USA based sells conversion kits

http://www.greasel.com/
USA based conversion kits

http://www.biofuels.ca
Canadian SVO conversions. Other vegetable oil based products site contains E Beggs masters thesis 'Renewable Oil Fuels and Diesel Engines as Components of Sustainable System Design' well worth a read.

http://www.sonicinema.com/car/index.html
Conversion workshops

http://www.grease-works.com/
Corvallis Biofuels Co-op- SVO/WVO and biodiesel

http://www.veggieavenger.com/
Project Veggie Avenger. Biodiesel/SVO information

http://danalinscott.netfirms.com/
"Vegoil Conversions of Diesel Engines" Dana Linscotts' vegoil site. Good FAQs, sells plans online for pre-filtering and conversion kit fabrication.

http://www.captain-morgan.org
"Morgan Crawford, a graduate student in the Environmental Science and Policy Department at USF is working on developing the use of unprocessed waste cooking oil." Informative site containing a number of studies.

http://www.geocities.com/patricktormey/greenmachine.html
Patrick Tormey documents Mercedes conversion
"This is my 1979 Mercedes 200D, which I've converted to run on WVO."

Other SVO

http://www.goodgrease.com/
Compiled vegetable oil fuel web information

http://www.journeytoforever.org
Hong Kong to Cape Town promoting biofuels and sustainable agriculture. Good SVO and biodiesel information. Biofuel mailing groups.

http://www.shortcircuit.com.au
Australian SVO.
http://www.shortcircuit.com.au/warfa/Veg-oilOptions.pdf shows possible fuel line set ups

http://www.bebioenergy.com/
Australian farmer promoting SVO/biodiesel

http://www.agropower.biz
Promoting SVO in India

SVO related technical papers

http://www.pages.drexel.edu/~ajl23/Biodiesel04.pdf
Triglycerides-based diesel fuel Research paper examining mainly biodiesel lists compositions of a number of different plant oils

http://acta.chem-soc.si/45/45-1-69.pdf
Research paper investigating the relationship between veg oil viscosity/temperature

http://bengal.missouri.edu/~pavt0689/Review_Utilization_of_Rapeseed_Oil.pdf
Research paper investigating emissions from burning vegetable oil in diesel engines(long download time)
http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel_library/ro_rev.html
Above reformatted as html - much quicker download

http://ss.jircas.affrc.go.jp/engpage/jarq/33-2/Togashi/togashi.html
Japanese research paper looking into running unheated oil in diesel engines

http://www.regional.org.au/au/gcirc/6/214.htm
Irish research paper looking at different grades of unheated rapeseed oil in diesel engines

http://www.nf-2000.org/secure/Fair/F484.htm
Detailed report from European SVO research project by Advanced Combustion Research for Energy from Vegetable Oils (ACREVO).

http://www.shortcircuit.com.au/warfa/paper/paper.htm
"Waste Vegetable Oil as a Diesel Replacement Fuel" by Phillip Calais,
Environmental Science, Murdoch University, Perth, Australia, and A.R.
(Tony) Clark, Western Australian Renewable Fuels Association Inc.

http://www.univ-orleans.fr/ESEM/LME/Commun/Doc/pdf/21Resume1.pdf
University of Orleans ‘Using sunflower oil as a Diesel fuel in a DI engine’ – Insulating the piston to reduce deposit formation

http://www.geocities.com/ublatz/TDI-Probleme.htm
German study of running Tdi engines on vegetable oil.

http://www.biofuels.ca/ebeggsthesis.pdf
"Renewable Oil Fuels and Engines as Components of Sustainable System Design" by Ed Beggs

http://journeytoforever.org/biodiesel_SVO-palm.html
"Palm Oil as a Fuel for Agricultural Diesel Engines: Comparative Testing against Diesel Oil" by Gumpon Prateepchaikul and Teerawat Apichato

http://www.jrc.es/pages/iptsreport/vol74/english/TRA1E746.htm
"Unmodified Vegetable Oil as an Automotive Fuel" Report examining SVO. Written at the request of the European Commission

http://www.ryanarmstrong.net/
"AUTOMOTIVE SVO CONVERSION" Report on academic project -
" The primary motivation for this project is to explore the use of Straight Vegetable Oil (SVO) as an alternative fuel source for compression combustion engines"

http://www.supergen2005.interbase.net/docs/3%20Jamieson%20Marine%20Microalgae%20Presentation.pdf
UK Presentation on Algea oil production

http://www.bundesverband-pflanzenoele.de/pdf/TFZ_Abgasuntersuchungen.pdf
Report of emissions from tractors on diesel and when modified on diesel and PPO

http://www.ufop.de/downloads/MAN_GreenPower.pdf
MAN B&W Report on running large diesel engines on rapeseed, palm, used cooking oil and fish oils. Interesting Data

http://www.codeart.org/en/technique/energie/huile_de_palme_combustible_moteur/060627s-Engine%20running%20on%20palm%20oil-%20anglais.pdf
Report on 150 Hours Tests of Engines on Palm Oil

http://www.rio5.com/proceedings/Biomass/Coelho_et_al_311-318.pdf
The Use Of Palm Oil for Electricity Generation in the Amazon Region

http://www.extremesamoa.com/myweb5/coconut%20oil%20for%20fuel.pdf
The effect of coconut oil and diesel fuel blends on diesel engine performance and exhaust emissions

http://hdl.handle.net/2060/19840018745
Utilization of alternative fuels in diesel engines

UK Biodiesel and Blends

http://www.biodieselfillingstations.co.uk/
Biodiesel outlets in the UK

http://www.ukbiodiesel.biz
Allied Biodiesel Industries (UK)
Trade association of biodiesel producers

http://www.sundancerenewables.org.uk/
South wales not for profit producing biodiesel and providing other sustainable energy solutions

http://www.biodiesel.co.uk/
BABFO- The British Association for Biofuels and Oils
Promoting biofuel use in the UK

http://www.northwales.org.uk/bio-power/index.htm
Bio-Power Network vegoil based fuels. Promoting solvent/waste vegetable oil blended fuel.

http://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/biodiesel.htm
Health and Safety Executive Leaflet- Domestic production of biodiesel – health and safety warning. Points to ponder although generally considered to be slightly over stated considering other dangerous chemicals regularly handled in domestic situation.

UK Taxation

http://www2.europarl.eu.int/omk/sipade2?PUBREF=-//EP//NONSGML+REPORT+A5-2002-0218+0+DOC+PDF+V0//EN&L=EN&LEVEL=3&NAV=S&LSTDOC=Y
EU report on biofuels and taxation

http://www.hmce.gov.uk/forms/notices/bn10-02.htm
UK HMCE Duty on biodiesel with definition of biodiesel that would appear to include SVO

http://www.hmce.gov.uk/
Business Brief 10/05
HMCE Reference: BB 10/05: 07 April 2005

Resources

http://www.ufop.de/hilfe.html
Internet pages of the Union for the Promotion of Oil and Protein Plants

http://www.carmen-ev.de/
Bavarian renewables organisation
"The purpose of C.A.R.M.E.N. is to promote the research, study, development and use of renewable raw materials to safeguard the future of rural areas, as well as to meet environmental, social and economic demands"
Publishes NAWAROS renewables newsletter
http://www.carmen-ev.de/en/aktuelles/nawaroscontent.html

http://www.clean-vehicles.com/cgi-bin/cleanv/tech/information.pl?type=cs
Over 75 biofuel related reports and publications archived as .pdf files at UK based clean-vehicles.com

http://www.eng-tips.com/
Technical work forums for engineering professionals

http://cr4.globalspec.com/
More engineering forums

http://ntrs.nasa.gov
National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics technical reports (search for diesel)

http://c3energy.com/alt_energy/
Mechanical science files providing diesel engine info.

http://www.vv.se/publ_blank/bokhylla/miljo/2002_144/2002_144.pdf.
Ecotraffic - report on sustainable fuels to the sweedish government.

http://www.tpub.com/mechanics.htm
Free html mechanics publications

http://koal2.cop.fi/leonardo/
Vegetable oil and biodiesel educational resource

http://www.mercedesshop.com/shopforum/forumdisplay.php3?s=&forumid=15
Mercedes diesel discussion forum.

http://mbca.cartama.net/forumdisplay.php?f=5
Dielsel forum at Mercedes Benz Club of America

http://www.turbodieselregister.com/forums/archive/topic/79713.html
Forum for Dodge and cummins diesel truck engines

http://forums.tdiclub.com/categories.php
VW diesel forum

http://www.hostboard.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=forum&f=4037&DaysPrune=1000&SUBMIT=Go
VW diesel forum

http://www.isuzu.co.jp/world/technology/clean/index.html
Isuzu - Clean Diesel technology - modern diesel engine development

http://www.thedieselplace.com
Chevy diesel and Duramax information

http://www.dodge50.co.uk/
Dodge 50 information

http://wolfram.schneider.org/dict/dict.cgi?plang=en&db=tuc
Good German / English dictionary

http://www.k-wz.de/vmotor/dieselme.html
Diesel engine animation

http://www.andyspares.com/discussionforum/default.asp
Forum for french cars/vans (XUD diesel engine)

http://www.unitedvans.com/index.asp
2nd hand spares

http://www.dieselbike.net/
Diesel motorbike website

http://www.ross-tech.com/index.html
VAG-COM supplier. Use your laptop to talk to your Volkswagen Audi Group computer. Powerfull diagnostic tool. Soon to offer a BMW/Mini diagnostic solution.

http://en.openobd.org/
VAG group OBD opensource project

http://www.vehicle-wiring-products.co.uk/VWPweb2000/homepage/home.html
Automotive wiring components and tools

http://www.enginemuseum.org/eoe.html
Details of the oil engines developed by Herbert Akroyd Stuart

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=418121314557067951&q=diesel+engine
1950s Film about the development of the diesel engine.

http://www.noria.com/learning_center/category_article.asp?articleid=301&relatedbookgroup=OilAnalysis
testing oil for water using the visual crakle method

http://www.tanksystem.de/info_oelmuehlen_pflanzenoel_anbieter_umruester/oelmuehlen_pflanzenoel_anbieter_umruester.php?show_umruester=ja
Database of German conversion companies

http://www.pumpenfriedhof.tk/
Database of damaged injectoion pumps

http://www.tpub.com/content/constructionbituminous/TM-5-3895-373-34/index.htm
Perkins 4236 turbo engine maintenence, including pump and injector servicing

http://www.vwdiesel.net/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=4353&highlight=pump+assembly
Bosch VE pump rebuild

http://www.diesel-rk.bmstu.ru/Eng/index.php?page=Main
Powerfull engine simulation software - free remote use for non comercial purposes!

http://www.itocuk.co.uk
Isuzu Trooper owners club with discussion forum