SVO Powering Your Vehicle with Straight Vegetable Oil ~ by Forest Gregg


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SVO Powering Your Vehicle with Straight Vegetable Oil ~ by Forest Gregg

Fuel your diesel engine with STRAIGHT vegetable oil

IS STRAIGHT VEGETABLE OIL FOR YOU?

Packed with expert technical advice and practical tips, SVO stands out as the only book that explains exactly what is necessary to convert a diesel vehicle and how to do it properly. An experienced designer and researcher in the straight vegetable oil field, author Forest Gregg has sorted through the mass of information about straight vegetable oil and presents the best of the best in a format that is easy to read and easy to use.

SVO explains the environmental and economic reasons for choosing straight vegetable oil. Cheap, carbon-neutral, and independent from centralized corporate infrastructure, this alternative fuel is gaining popularity both with the environmentally conscious and with those who enjoy tinkering with diesel engines.

SVO is fully illustrated and explains topics such as:

Vegetable Oil sources, extraction and refining
Viscosity
Chemical degradation
Fuel properties
Contaminants
System Design
Engine Modifications

SVO is the only book available that explains excately what is necessary to convert a diesel vehicleand how to do it properly. 50 illustrations.

Even as renewable biofuels come under scrutiny, SVO passes the test with flying colours. Backed with documented research and hands-on experience, Forest Gregg leads us through the complexities of vegetable oils and diesel engines, coming out the other side with a practical and relatively simple means to run diesel vehicles safely on recycled or commercial cooking oil

- Richard Freudenberger, publisher of BackHome magazine.

Forest Gregg's SVO is a definitive work. It's well researched, thorough, and will be an enduring reference point for the SVO community.
- Lyle Still, author of Biodiesel Power: The Power, Passion and Politics of the Next Renewable Fuel and Small is Possible: Life in a local economy.

About the author: Forest Gregg, a former researcher with Frybrid - a leader in the development of vegetable oil conversion systems - has worked as a designer, fabricator and installer of SVO conversion systems.