Green Flame On Oil Burner.

Josh M._2

Jim 10 CO2 is a little high for a beckett. I can't even get that with an industrial power burner. What does your O2 and CO look like. You can get a really high CO2 and still have horrible combustion. You need atleast one other reading to determine what your cumbustion is. Just by your description I think that you could be on either side to the triangle.

jim_49

Green Flame on Oil Burner

I recently serviced a rheem oil furnace with AFG beckett burner. After burning out excess oil in chamber,the flame was still green. I thought it was strange that after 2 days it was still burning green, tried adj. the air but still no change. CO2 is 10, no smoke, what do you think . Possible contaminates in oil or toxic waiste in oil?? 20 yrs in the bus. so i'm no rookie.

Bill Nye_2

Josh

11-12% CO2 is a common every day normal for almost any burner combination, I don't understand? This is oil , not gas.

Jim too much air maybe? I would change the nozzle and try again. Adjust so you have a little smoke, and then go from there until no smoke. Let us know how you make out.

Weezbo

I have seen green flame too,

might look for impingement(Draw setting) or might have something to do with electrodes...recheck everything...i no longer remember what the cause was..i think it was impingement.

eleft_4

jim

Do you have a chemical contaminating the combustion air? Look around ...Freon, bleach, paint thinner, jewelry cleaner, cleaning fluid etc.

Happy New Year

al

jim_49

I tried adj the air band to high smoke and yellow flame with still some green highlites. Alot of air and all green. Perfect flame by sight and still all green. Never seen a fire this color before except when I washed down a saturated boiler, but the color faded fast to a normal looking flame. Still baffled..

Weezbo

Hmmm....any possibility some underground pipe was

burned could be some clux as green is a colour for copper burning maybe its some copper oxides from some silver braze ...

Robert O'Connor_7

jim...

Had a job ten years ago in a large print shop turns out the paint thinner was the cause...eleft nailed it first...Robert O'Connor/NJ

joe_31

green flame

had 3 sloan interburners flame green seemed to be from copper coat [an anti seize compound] used on bolts to hold together a cast chamber on one it did go away after a while. on the other two. i have no idea but both basements had partial dirt floors. radon gas? poor oil consistency from damp and cold root cellar? i dont know i have done this job for 30yrs only seen it 3x with those burners also high co2 [12.5-14.0] had to do a lot of adjusting to lower it to 11.5

Ken D.

Green Flame

I agree with the copper angle. I once had a piece of copper tube in a combustion chamber that caused a green flame. Possible chemicals in the oil causing copper errosion? Also the old soot sticks that were basically rock salt would make the flame be blue-green. Chemical contaminations to combusion air is also a possilbility as previously suggested.

Ken_8

You don't suppose ...

there's a leprachaun livin' inside dat ting now do ya?

Dem critters could live anywheres ya know.

I wouldn't lie to ya.

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