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Posted by Jeffrey Lebowski on December 27, 2006, 11:12 pm
> Jake wrote:
>
> >>
> >> How about one that burns FREE fuel?
> >>
> >> http://www.cleanburn.com/cbDesign.cfm
> >
> >Fish,
> >
> >Do you have any experience with this brand? We tried a couple once
> >before and I was not happy with the results... very high maintenance and
> >units being especially 'picky' about the oil..
> >
> >What kinds of oil can you burn? The oil we use in the heavy diesels is
> >much 'dirtier' after use... and some of the generator units use very
> >high flashpoint synthetics....
> >
> >Most of our waste oil comes from these two types of equipment.
> >
> >I couldn't find any good info on the website... so I'd welcome your
> >experience here...
> >
> >Jake
>
> Sorry Jake, I have zero experience with waste oil furnaces. Closest I
> got was a customer 5-6 years ago that thought he wanted one. It was a
> Jiffy Lube place.
>
> Here's a real interesting link, a project right up Sam's alley.
> A waste oil burner that uses no electricity!
>
> http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel_library/ethanol_motherearth/me4.html
Not even gonna click it man...thx anyways...something about alcohol abuse
coming to mind already here.
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Perhaps surprisingly, I actually go though very little waste oil here 10
gallons in a good year perhaps...thing is though....what little I do end up
with is generally so very heavily contaminated, mostly water but also having
metal fines...
I do have a neighbor that has a fairly large mechanic shop, I would est at
appx 5000 sf ( he is an excavating contracter )....has a waste oil heating
system and he seems quite happy with it...hydronic withpex tubing in the
floor...recalling (perhaps) a beckett pump...fairly large boiler...
Notably, seems to me like he's forever messing around....filtering,
/de-watering, mixing, etc. all of the "free oil" that the local folks bring
him..generally at least several barrels going on at any given time...each
one at some various sundry stage of preparation prior to it's actual use....
So, what with my own waste oil being literally so messed up, better to just
incinerate it here on-site or even pour it around the wooden fence posts to
help keep em from rotting...this rather than risking fucking up his heating
system.
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