Anyone familiar with these?

Ron Schroeder

Unfortunatly, veggie oil is harder to burn than waste motor oil. Most waste motor oil burners have trouble with veggie oil. Settling the motor oil fo as long as possable helps. I would suspect a floating pickup would help.

Mark Hunt

I have a customer that wants one


of these waste oil boilers.

Any info appreciated.

Mark H

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Dave DeFord_3

Seem to be OK..

I have a friend that as been heating his garage with one for several years. The only problem I have heard of is getting clean used oil & I believe it was the ignitor fouling with carbon on occasion. Typically he uses drain oil from cars for his fuel. I have also known him to use fuel oil. Some oil change places use them to heat their facility. I guess the biggest problem would be getting uncontaminated used oil on a regular basis and the issues related to dealing with it. Something you might also want to let your customer know about is the heavy metal contamination that is typically associated with used motor oil. I'm not sure if burning this oil would release these metals in a harmful form or not. Good luck.

Rely_2

waste oil

how big a garage. We have a owner of a bus company and they have a hard time getting enough oil fron 80 buses to heat the building.Plus if they add #2 heating oil to waste oil tank the pump takes it personally , not made to move thin oil got to love it.

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Guy_6

consistent

I would think that you would need to be consistent in the oil that you burn in order to maintain consistent combustion. Heavy oil (motor) would burn considerably different than light (transmission or fuel oil).

How much Vegetable oil do you think is discarded every day by the big fast food chains?

Dave DeFord_3

It's a pole barn..

I would guess 40x60. I do know that he gets more oil than he generates. I think that he gets if from oil change places and a neighbor that owns an auto shop. As I stated that's the biggest problem that I see, a steady supply of oil. I don't have any idea what type of pump he uses but I do know that he was happy when I gave him 165 gallons of heating oil I had that I didn't need.

Boilergeek

Try cleanburn.com I have used a few of them with no problems.

Mark Hunt

Omni burner

Just got off the phone with the folks that make this burner.

Check it out here.

Tell me what you think.

Mark H

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Mark Hunt

Too big


The customer just wants to heat a small portion of his garage and make bio-diesel fuel.

He has a nearly unlimited source of cooking oil and his wife is driving a bio-diesel hybrid.

Thanks!

Mark H

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Ron Schroeder

Hi Mark,

The smallest is .6gph. Very few regular burners are fired below that rate. You could probably underfire the Omni too.

I think one of the waste oil burner manufacturers has a .5gph model.

But remember that burning waste oil in a residence is against most codes.

Ron

Ron Schroeder

If the Biodiesel is good enough, he could just burn it in a conventional burner. Webster now makes a biodiesel compatable fuel unit.

Dirk Wright

Waste oil burners are illegal for residential use. See NFPA 31.