durasmack

WVO is hard to run in a truck, but how would it do in a garage heater? Many people on this site have kero/diesel forced air garage heaters that suck down a lot of diesel or kerosene every winter.... how well would those run on wvo? how well would whole house oil furnaces run on WVO? I guess the biggest problem would be keeping the fuel warm? or is there somthing else that I am missing here???

infidel

There are conversion kits that allow regular fuel oil heaters to burn waste motor, hydraulic, ATF, etc oils. Many big shops and quick lube joints use these for their heating.
Adding WVO to the mix would be as simple as pouring it in.

Iron Mike

What's WVO?

thecatsfan

Wesson Vegetable Oil?

durasmack

Waste Vegetable Oil (used deep fry oil)

Iron Mike

OOHHHHH!!! Well's that's my one new thing to learn today. Thanks.

P.J

There are garage heaters desinged to burn on whatever you can dump in them (common sense limiting of course).
I used to work in a shop that heated the whole place via radiant floor heat. They had a pit with a 750 gallon waste oil tank feeding a 300,000 BTU bioler. We recycled diff oil, motor oil, etc.
I guess it is a bit different on the viscosity level.

12PACK

Will any of these heaters burn synthetic oil? The reason I ask is the shop that handles our work trucks uses one. I mentioned I had some oil I wanted to get rid of and was told to bring it down. When I said it was synthetic, they told me to forget it as they couldn't burn it.

There is a neighboring town that will take the stuff for free so I can still be enviormentally friendly.

SHARPMACHINE

So can a fuel furnace be converted to use waste oil or wvo or ???????

infidel

http://www.heco.net/wasteoil.htm

mainer

I've been thinking about running a furnace on WVO for awile. You could have 2 tanks, 1 for wvo and 1 for K1. The wvo one you could cut the top off then run your tubing to keep it worm, they you would set u a zone for keeping the wvo at temp. You then would have to set up a way to switch over from K1 to wvo, dosen't seem like to much of a problem to me. I have been told that the O-rings in the furnace dont like the wvo, and you need to keep an eye on them. I dont know this for sure. I think it would work fine.

Coop