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Vegtable Oil Boiler

Theealchemist
Theealchemist Member Posts: 59
in THE MAIN WALL
Bob. We recently installed a Viessmann boiler for process heating to produce bio-diesel from local grease waste. The Burner is made to run off waste vegetable oil. I'm not sure if # 2 oil burners can run off straight veggie oil but this burner has 10,000 hrs on it............

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  • Bob Gagnon plumbing and heating
    Bob Gagnon plumbing and heating Member Posts: 1,373
    Vegtable Oil Boiler

    Can you run vegtable oil in an oil burner? I saw two diesel cars a couple of weeks ago that were running on 100% used vegtable oil.

    Thanks, Bob Gagnon

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  • Mike C._4
    Mike C._4 Member Posts: 56
    veg oil options, cont'd

    look on Yahoogroups for a group called "altfuelfurnace" which focuses on peoples' successful techniques to convert Beckett-type oil burners to burn veg and other waste oils
  • Robert O'Brien
    Robert O'Brien Member Posts: 3,562
    Can you run vegtable oil in an oil burner?

    Yes,but not unless highly modified.Trevor is right about the Yahoo group,they can point you in the right direction.Good Luck!

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  • Tim_41
    Tim_41 Member Posts: 153
    viscoscity

    THe veg oil has to be thinned in order to be atomized. In the cars, you run the car on diesal until the veg oil comes up to temp. Than, you switch over to the oil. For an oil burner, I would assume the same would be true. Maybe a tank of veggie oil with a heat exchanger in it would work. It sounds like fun doing it.
  • hot_rod
    hot_rod Member Posts: 23,391
    It can be a bear to handle and strain

    I have a few friends running their Dodge Cummins on straight cooking oil. Around about 65F it starts to get solid. So you need to heat it to filter the fish and chips out.

    Getting the water out is also hassle some guys use a centerfuge to spin the water and junk out. It can be a lot of work.

    My friend Nathan is off grid, runs his trucks and standby Perkins diesel generator on grease. I made a HX to run off his Hardy OWF to keep the grease tanks warm enough to filter and handle the stuff. His whole 5 acres smells like rancid grease now ;) even his lawn is slippery, and that end of the county smells like wood smoke year 'round.

    His truck does smell good when you drive behind him. Makes me hungary for a Big Mac.

    Life in the Ozarks.
    Bob "hot rod" Rohr
    trainer for Caleffi NA
    Living the hydronic dream
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