AdBlue can I make my own

[Jez1966]

A quick check and @ 10k miles @ 5% AdBlue usage you'd save £132 @ £1.70 vs £1.00.
That is more than the saving advertised for turning your boiler flow temperature down and other COLC money saving adverts.
Seems the goverment could save us tax payers ,000,000 by not advertising how to save so little.

 

[Steve and Denise]

I just looked it up it’s around 600 - 700 miles per litre.

So if you do 10,000 miles a year you will save a max amount of around £12.
If my maths is correct .

Not on our Iveco 10ltrs every 1,000 miles, it’s been back to Iveco and they say it’s within parameters

 

[G7UXG]

Bought some the other day at our local independent service station. 87.9 pence per litre . I’ll be filling up and taking a jerry can full before I go to France.

 

[Tombola]

Course you can..give it a go.
Not my thing tho for such small savings..BUT if you can find out how to make diesel..then I'm in.

 

[jockaneezer]

I wonder how much it would cost to just delete the adblue system ?

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[Littlewheels]

But most importantly, it won't be blue!

It’s not blue,certainly in my experience it’s clear and crystallises if you over spill any.

 

[Tombola]

 

[InvictaMoto]

I know a bloke that could sell you a few gallons of pig pee. You'd have to collect it at source. Might be safer to buy adblue from Aldi.

 

[donkey]

I noticed 5l for £6.99 in a store in Peterborough. At that price I would not entertain making my own.

Geoff

 

[The Coops]

Check with your local window cleaner if they use the water wash system. its about 3p a litre for deionised water most big cities will have a water dispenser where they fill the tanks up ( quick google check will also tell you.

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[Coastal Cruiser.]

Not on our Iveco 10ltrs every 1,000 miles, it’s been back to Iveco and they say it’s within parameters

Sounds a lot, not checked mine but I know I’m using nowhere near that, maybe half or even a third.
I know I went from home down to Croatia around Italy then put about 15ltrs in on the way back in Belgium!!

 

[Jez1966]

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Quote "It is therefore impossible to ontain top-quality AdBlue which meets the standards mentioned above by manufacturing it at home".
Having work in a very bsi/iso/astm world, reading the 3 page ISO22241-1 for AdBlue: Pure Urea 32.5% (no anticaking agent etc) and 67% Pure Water - Deionized. It may not be possible to meet their standards and they will try and make you believe that.
Have any of you checked the labelling of the AdBlue you've bought conforms to ISO 22241-1?
Quoting Marcel Pagnal, of Paul Mages "Everyone thought it was impossible, except an idiot who did not know and who created it."
Remember the tabacco companies that said smoking was good for you?

 

[chaser]

Be a lot simpler to buy a van that doesn't need it.

 

[rosalan]

The original question is 'can I make my own?' Well can I? Can I turn urine into urea? That could be a saving! Then scrape the ice out of my freezer and weigh them both ready to mix. Trouble is, I don't use AdBlu.

 

[Jez1966]

Sounds a lot, not checked mine but I know I’m using nowhere near that, maybe half or even a third.
I know I went from home down to Croatia around Italy then put about 15ltrs in on the way back in Belgium!!

Be a lot simpler to buy a van that doesn't need it.

Yes somthing Euro 5 or before, though these may be less diesel efficient so off set AdBlue cost.

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[Guigsy]

My understanding is adblue gets injected into the exhaust before the catalytic converter. The water has to be distilled or of it'd quickly clog up with mineral deposits. I guess the same is true of the urea, if there's anything else in it, it might not cleanly decompose. Anything left behind could clog the injector or ruin the cat.

 

[Coolcats]

8l AdBlue per 100l diesel so 8%.
Everyone seems to have missed the actual question "AdBlue can I make my own".

As AdBlue starts off being shipped as urea prills and the distributors just add the purified water the answer would have to be yes with a small caveat that says you would be responsible for both the correct % of mix and assurance the water was of the suitable type.

I reckon it’s more difficult to make a good whiskey beer or wine.

You can make Gunpowder easily enough you just need to ensure the right % of the raw materials to make it effective. ( no I’m not going in to details on that one).

 

[Coolcats]

Course you can..give it a go.
Not my thing tho for such small savings..BUT if you can find out how to make diesel..then I'm in.

Here we go an article on making your own diesel, a mate did this a while back but didn’t do it for long my guess is it’s a bit of a faf

How to Prepare Used Cooking Oil for Biodiesel: 13 Steps

Biodiesel is a combustible fuel that is biodegradable and made from vegetable oil or animal fat. It is desirable as an alternative to petroleum fuel because it uses renewable resources that are less damaging to the environment to produce...

www.wikihow.com

 

[Tombola]

Here we go an article on making your own diesel, a mate did this a while back but didn’t do it for long my guess is it’s a bit of a faf

How to Prepare Used Cooking Oil for Biodiesel: 13 Steps

Biodiesel is a combustible fuel that is biodegradable and made from vegetable oil or animal fat. It is desirable as an alternative to petroleum fuel because it uses renewable resources that are less damaging to the environment to produce...

www.wikihow.com

An old uncle of mine used to power his peaugot 504 on recycled oil mix..smelt like chips when he started it up..had to inform revenue or whoever and they charge tax on a certain portion.

 

[The Wino]

An old uncle of mine used to power his peaugot 504 on recycled oil mix..smelt like chips when he started it up..had to inform revenue or whoever and they charge tax on a certain portion.

I've got a friend who lives just up the coast who ran history fishing boat and car on homemade biodiesel he has a machine that processes it. I think there's a limit to the amount you can make for your own use below that it's tax free although it's a few years since he chatted about it . I seem to recall him saying it only is safe to use with certain fuel injection systems.

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[Margaux2]

Am I reading this right, you are going to all this trouble to save 7 pence a lt

I read this as saving £0.7 per litre???

 

[rammygb]

From research AdBlue is 32.5% Urea + 67.5% Deionized water sells for approx £1.7 per litre.

I can buy Deionized water 25l for £19
Urea 5kgs £34
@32.5g urea per litre 5kgs will produce 154 Litres.
150 Litres of Deionized water = £115
So home brew £1 per litre, less if you buy larger volumes but I'm not drinking it..

Am I missing something?
No duty so why not make your own?

Get it removed and mapped job done

 

[poisondwarf]

I cant understand why its so expensive everywhere i pay my local tyre and exhauste garage £10 for a drum With out checking sure its 10litres

£10.00 for 10 litres of AdBlue is very cheap. That is what Screwfix (and the likes of) used to charge before prices exploded.
These days I usually buy 2 x 10l of AdBlue from Aldi when they they have it in stock (and when I need it obviously)
The current Aldi price is around £17.99 for 1 x 10l tub of the stuff.
I m a Vito van driver doing around 30k miles per year.

 

[poisondwarf]

Not on our Iveco 10ltrs every 1,000 miles, it’s been back to Iveco and they say it’s within parameters

WOW, that does appear to be heavy usage

 

[Guigsy]

I believe that adblue consumption is related to sustained engine load, particularly at higher revs. If you do a lot of motorway miles with the cruise on at 70mph, you're going to burn through more than someone who's mainly on winding a-roads.

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[suavecarve]

I just looked it up it’s around 600 - 700 miles per litre.

So if you do 10,000 miles a year you will save a max amount of around £12.
If my maths is correct .

Or 6 litres of wine.

Anyone know a pig keeper (asking for a friend)

 

[suavecarve]

Sounds a lot, not checked mine but I know I’m using nowhere near that, maybe half or even a third.
I know I went from home down to Croatia around Italy then put about 15ltrs in on the way back in Belgium!!

Belgium price couple of weeks ago was a euro a litre. Luxembourg, I got some at 1.50 but saw it at 1.79. I thought i was well and truly done at 1.50

 

[Daffy64]

From research AdBlue is 32.5% Urea + 67.5% Deionized water sells for approx £1.7 per litre.

I can buy Deionized water 25l for £19
Urea 5kgs £34
@32.5g urea per litre 5kgs will produce 154 Litres.
150 Litres of Deionized water = £115
So home brew £1 per litre, less if you buy larger volumes but I'm not drinking it..

Am I missing something?
No duty so why not make your own?

Surely if Adblue is 32.5% Urea and a litre is 1,000cc then by your calculations then you would need 325g of urea??

A quick google suggests that Urea is 1.3 times heavier than water so you would need 325cc of Urea so 422g per litre.

It’s probably worth bringing into the equation the cost of an adblue dosing unit as you’ll probably need one at some time in the near future.

 

[Jimbohorlicks]

£5.99 /5litres, Home Bargains yesterday. A handier 5 litre size comes with pouring spout also.

 

[Jimbohorlicks]

Not on our Iveco 10ltrs every 1,000 miles, it’s been back to Iveco and they say it’s within parameters

Here's a handy calculator

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