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I read in a Mother Earth News article that back in the 70's they put additives in engine oil to keep it from flashing in the hotter running engines. The article also stated that it's harder to find places that give oil away. You also have to filter the impurities and water out of it before you can even use it in a burner made for burning HHO, let along a homemade one. Has anyone here had any experience with burning waste oil?
They don't make them anymore but when I lived in Alaska there was a direct vent room heater that burned waste oil. It also burned a variety of other things if no waste oil was available of course. There was no requirement to remove or filter anything other than whatever filter the unit had. Additives are expected in these things and they don't differentiate between different types of oils and whether or not they are synthetic. Synthetic oil is made from regular petroleum oil and so are the additives. Waste oil furnaces burn just about anything petroleum based including transmission and hydraulic fluids.
Back in the 80's when I worked in a gas station as teenager they had a waste oil burner, I don't even think the thing had a filter. As I recall there was some kind of removable cast iron plate and that thing would be caked with a hard carbon residue that had to be removed daily. It was like a half inch thick and it stunk, I can smell it right now, very unique smell.
Modern waste oil burners are highly engineered,efficient and clean burning devices. The trick to any non traditional heating source is FUEL. The cheaper you can get it the better......
... The article also stated that it's harder to find places that give oil away. ...
If they aren't giving it away, are they getting some money for the stuff from the "recycling" system?
(Last I heard, they filtered it and ran it in off shore diesel engines, but that was many years ago.)
I know a couple repair shops that run on used oil and hydraulic fluid. Generally, if you don't have 500 gallons of used oil a year to burn, it's probably not worth it.
When I was a kid I worked in a cannery that generated steam from bunker crude. They didn't even bother to refine it.
I know a couple repair shops that run on used oil and hydraulic fluid. Generally, if you don't have 500 gallons of used oil a year to burn, it's probably not worth it.
When I was a kid I worked in a cannery that generated steam from bunker crude. They didn't even bother to refine it.
We used to run bunker C in some engines. lots of BTU but real polluting. I change the oil on a landfill engine every 1000 hours.. about 7 times a year 300 gallons a pop. My bigger engines are 800 gallons a change out. and the older tech units are 1800 gallons but we don't change those out very often. all total we generate about 2000 gallons of waste oil a year................
Neighbor of mine had a trucking business....6-7 dump trucks, local work....and they did all their own maintenance in his shop. He had a BIG shop made wood stove that heated it. He pumped their scrap oil to a 55gal drum mounted up on the wall 4-5' higher than the stove, rigged a small copper line from one of the drum fittings to the stove. Just drilled a hole in the top of the stove for the line, set a small inline valve in the copper feed line to let the oil drip onto the wood fed in the stove, and got rid of all his oil that way in the winter.
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