Contact details
Biofuel (SW) Ltd.
Unit 11
Hill Barton Business Park
Sidmouth Road
Clyst St. Mary
Exeter
EX5 1DR
01395 232999
0797 3865 526
0781 1211 486
e-mail: info@biofuelsw.co.uk
Protecting the environment
Where does it comes from?
Vegetable oil is produced from oil seeds which are grown in the UK and many other countries around the world.
In the UK the crop is grown for this purpose is oil seed rape.
You can buy the oil in the supermarket as cooking oil.
The seeds are grown as a normal crop by farmers using traditional and sustainable methods. After harvest the seed is crushed and the oil extracted. It then enters the food industry for both commercial and domestic use and is used in many ways. Most is used in frying operations and has a full and useful life. At the end of that life it is discarded as waste!
This waste can and should be retrieved and reprocessed into bio-diesel, not just added to the waste mountain!How is it made?
The vegetable oil in its natural form (waste or new) is much thicker than mineral oils, more viscous and as a result, whilst it is combustible, is too thick to easily run through filters and the fine jets within diesel engines.
Therefore the 'raw' vegetable oil is processed in our own facility using the 'Transesterification process' which breaks the structure of the oil and removes the glycerine elements from it. After carefully filtering this system, it produces a diesel with properties in parallel to those of mineral based fuel.
The resulting bio-diesel is then usable in any diesel vehicle without any modification.
Frequently asked questions
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Torbay Distributor
Contact Will for directions and times.
Telephone
0784 161 5399 or
0779 0035 043
Trelawney,
Barton Hill Road,
Torquay.
TQ2 8LT
Collection of (fill ups/small) bio-diesel on Monday to Friday from 9am - 4pm at Unit 11 Hill Barton Business Park.
The storage systems are tailored to your own needs. Please ask for details.
Yes! It is perfectly legal to both make and use bio-diesel provided that Customs and Excise are paid the relevant duties.
Yes, provided that your car has a diesel engine.
There is no need for any expensive modifications.
In fact the diesel engine was originally designed to run on vegetable oils before mineral diesel was available in many parts of the world.
The high cost of production compared with fossil fuels and the lack of any tax concessions until 2003 made bio-diesels too expensive to be effective.
With the increase in fossil fuel prices and the rebate in duty that now exists, bio-fuels are now competitive.
More like doughnuts!
Rather sweeter than the acrid fumes produced from mineral diesel. The exhaust gasses are much less carcinogenic than fossil fuel emissions and have a much lower effect on the greenhouse gasses of other fuels.
Yes! It is produced from vegetable oils that are grown as normal crops so is 'carbon neutral' and fully sustainable.
Also the fuel is fully bio-degradeable in 28 days thus posing no threat to the environment.
Most likely! The manufacturers have ignored bio-fuels up to now because of the small amounts available. However Germany does and has for many years used larger amounts of bio-fuels with no problems but the manufacturers have ignored to do any work with the fuels so no advice is available from them. They offer no good advice not to use bio-fuels.