Mark Do an internet product search for "waste oil heater" and you will find some. These are designed to burn waste engine crankcase oil, transmission fluid oil, and other lubricating liquids common to car repair shops. They usually say that the viscosity needs to be 50 or less. If using WVO that is liquid at room temperature, there may not be any need to heat the fuel. One might even look into heating oil furnaces (or even boilers if putting up a new building) substituting WVO for the heating oil. Again a small heater may be required to have the WVO at a suitable viscosity. No sense reinventing the wheel providing the current off-the-shelf products are reasonably priced.
At 17:05 Tuesday, you wrote: >At 04:12 PM 1/7/2003 -0800, you wrote: > >Have you considered the use of off-the-shelf waste oil burners being used > >in garages? These are using waste engine crankcase oil with the smaller > >units putting out 145KBTUs. Most garages like restaurants have to pay > >others to take away the waste oil. Most of the manufacturers will not > >knowingly sell these for residential use most likely due to liability > >threats while they will as space heaters for garages, workshops, and > >manufacturing plants full of working people. This is another source of > >inexpensive fuel AND the mechanisms to safely convert that fuel to heat. I > >suspect any room-temperature WVO may be equally useable as fuel for these > >shop furnances. Maybe the local 10-minute oil change place would be > >willing to donate your fuel supply? > > >A-ha. Interesting. Anybody out there doing this with WVO? I know that it's >been tried with homemade waste oil burners (couple designs at >journeytoforever). i didn't realize that there were commercially produced >ones. Where does one find them? >Thanks, >Mark Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
