Convert Fuel Oil Furnace To Waste Oil

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Convert fuel oil furnace to waste oil.

Converting a home heating oil furnace to burn waste motor oil waste vegetable oil biodiesel. It s totally different type of furnace then you home heating system burner. Fuel oil is the same as diesel fluid. Not to the furnace but to the fuel.

These burners are designed around a cnc machined aluminum preheater block. How i burn waste oil in my fuel oil furnace. Parts tools needed with a full explanation demonstration for a diy project. The waste oil heater in our truck shop 350 000btu reznor does not share that much in common with a regular oil burner.

These impurities are filtered off in a waste oil burner but in a fuel oil burner they would be trapped in the sprayer or released into the air. Waste oil being mainly comprised of used engine crankcase oil should be in the ball park of 60 70 cs or 300 400 sus at room temperature which is apparently a lot thicker than the 2. Ok this is my 1st youtube post. If you were to heat waste oil in a standard burner the impurities in the oil would clog the sprayer.

This is a standard home heating furnace that i burn used engine oil in with a small mod. On nov 12 2019 you cannot convert a fuel oil burner into a waste oil burner for safety purposes. If i m going to have any chance of pulling this off cheaply easily i ll have to get the waste oil s viscosity to match that of the furnace oil. It is not a good idea to put used motor oil in you home heating oil.

Fuel oil i believe is more like kerosene than motor oil. It ll easily clog the filter. And experimenting with different fuels. You need a special waste oil burner to burn waste oil.

It takes compressed air to make the thicker oil atomize properly and it has several more safety and limit switches than a fuel oil unit.