Converting from oil heat to gas - and going green with HE boiler

[Nothere1]

Originally Posted by my54ford

OK, I'm a Diesel mech too and have a Chief boiler operator ticket. I have worked extensively with the U of M diesel program scientist in the use of soy based bioD in power generation ( much of this work was used to develop Minnesota Bio diesel standard) I can tell you categorically that the best use of bio-d is in boilers. When used in a CI-rice in blends above 20% the NOx raises exponentially. When used in a boiler you can us much higher blend up to 100% and maintain low emission rates. Any oil fired boiler used in PG run F/O preheaters as standard equipment............just saying...

I can't argue on this as I think you know more on the soy side than I do. Thank you for your chime in as I didn't know if their were any draw backs to using soy bio-diesel in boilers. It doesn't sound like a bad idea, I, and others I known, have used 'road blends' and it works great. There is a lot of truckers not liking soy biodiesel so I'm glade we have found a great use for it, keep more jobs in the Midwest.

[Nothere1]

Originally Posted by Ohiogirl81

Wow, you guys must keep your thermostat at 80 degrees! With the thermostat at 65 degrees, in suburban Philadelphia, I use about 200-250 gallons of oil each season. And that was with a 40-year-old furnace, which I just replaced last April.

There's no natural gas source in my neighborhood, so oil is pretty much my only choice.

A friend of mine in Iowa has a corn waste furnace, he said it's pennies on the dollar for his winter heating. The only drawback, he said, was his entire house smells like popcorn for six months.