oil tank heaters

joe_31

any burner mechanics in colder areas use a product made to put into an oil tank to keep oil warm? It is designed to fit into the tank like an aquarium heater and controled by a thermostat to stop heating when surrounding area gets 40deg. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks

ed wallace

oil tank heater

if its an outdoor tank build a shed around it, install a 100 watt lite bulb to warm the tank, and do top take off of the oil line either thru a bushing or my preferance a float gauge

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Weezbo

first.

below ground tanks are in order. OH O! I offended the Welders in the crowd! even with underground tanks the lines being either copper (mostly) or black iron have to enter the building. condensate builds up,... ice! hence the need for tiger loops. however....cold is cold and so a small inside day tank can do wonders .

Earthfire

try this link

http://preferredutilities.com/tank_internal.asp

Ed_13

Tank Heater

Do you have a gell problem? If so why not a kero/#2 blend or straight kero? Also, there are some good addatives for anti gell. Just a thought.

Ed

John_16

Oil Tank Heater

I have a unit, like the one you describe, in serevice for this past winter. I DID NOT treat my tank with anything at all, to see what would happen. Well nothing happened. Thats good. The Oil in the tank just kept flowing, even with the -0 degree days.

jweglarz@hotmail.com

oil tank heater

jj, where did you get it? do you know the distributor? customer does not want kero in the tank

John_16

tank heater

National Magnetic sensors makes the one I used. Info in private mail.

John_16

Oil Tank Heater

I have used this unit this winter with no additive and no pour point depressant. Had no trouble. Go to www.floatswitch.com click on National Magnetic Sensors, then click products. From there click on Series 80000
Remote Fuel indicator, then click literature-OIL HEAT BROCHURE. look at page 2, see the * on the bottom. They don't make it easy to find, do they. Good Luck, John G

Steve Eayrs

I have not used a tank heater, but

would think that you would be creating a fair amount of condesate, and therefore sludge in the fuel tank, by heating the oil.
Would be interesting to me to see the amount of buildup in the tank after a few years of heating it.
We don't even like to install two pipe fuel systems, (use a lot of tigerloops) partly for the same reason. The returning oil is warmer and does warm up the tank some, but it seems to me that we are also finding a lot more sludge in such tanks. Could be just because most of them are older tanks too.

The only thing that gets delivered most of the year around here, (Alaska) is #1 oil, unless you specify #2.
Asking for lots of problems in a cold spell using #2. Even if the tank is heated, what about the line to the boiler? Ever try to suck jello up a straw?


Steve