SVO: Powering Your Vehicle with Straight Vegetable Oil

by Forest Gregg, Christopher Goodwin

"There is a lot of information out there about the pros and cons of biofuels - more cons than pros recently. but still, nothing seems to beat Straight Vegetable Oil (SVO). It's cheap, carbon-neutral, uses a waste product and does not depend upon centralized corporate infrastructure. And now there is a definitive guide to fueling your diesel engine with this alternative fuel. SVO-Powering Your Vehicle with Straight Vegetable Oil cuts through the masses of often contradictory, erroneous and confusing information on the subject and provides a practical guide. It also, importantly and uniquely, explains what is necessary to convert a diesel engine and how to do it properly. there are facts, figures, charts, grpahs, diagrams, and lots of technical detail but, with all its detail, the book is still very accessible. Gregg knows his stuff; he is a former researcher with Frybrid, a leading developer of veggie oil conversion systems, and has worked as a designer, fabricator and installer of SVO conversion systems." - Natural Life Magazine

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.

Forest Gregg is a  designer for Frybrid, the most respected vegetable oil conversion company in the United States. He has sifted through the masses of contradictory, erroneous, and confusing information on the subject, extracting the very best information available. Chapters
Vegetable oil sources, extraction, and refiningViscosityChemical degradationFuel propertiesContaminantsSystem designEngine modificationsSVO 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.

240 pages, Paperback

First published July 1, 2008

Reviews

[Smellsofbikes · Rating 4 out of 5]

Enormously comprehensive book on modifying diesel cars to run on vegetable oil in addition to diesel. It goes into extensive detail on how diesel engines work, and how SVO differs from diesel, and ways to minimize those differences to keep the engine running with the same lifetime as if it were running on standard diesel.

[Simon · Rating 3 out of 5]

good info but heavily biased towards frybrid systems(author works for them) not as informative as Veg My Ride DVD

[University of Chicago Magazine]

Forest Gregg, AB'04, AM'12
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[Travissimo · Rating 4 out of 5]

great book.