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Rising Heating Oil Prices Raise Benefits of Waste Oil Burners

Sunday, March 28th, 2010
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Gas prices are going up and so are heating costs. We are almost done with winter but trust me, it will be back sooner than you think.

If you have been a longtime reader of my site than you know that there are few items I endorse more than waste oil burners.  I have not seen very many investments that give the type of rate of return that these do.

Quite frankly, a heating system outfitted with this type of oil burner will eliminate your heating costs.  Not reduce them.  Not just make your monthly heating costs a little bit lighter on your pockets.

I really do mean that changing over your heating set-up from a conventional boiler or furnace into a waste oil boiler or waste oil furnace will save you TONS of money in the long run.

As many of you know I have seen first hand what these alternative energy heating systems can do.  My January heating bill was $10.00 and I live in one of the coldest states in the union.

It was not by accident or chance that my bill was that price.  It was because I generate heat for my home and business from used motor oil.

My supply is not natural gas, electricity, or more commonly heating oil.  All those items seem to be going up daily.  Instead, I generate all my heat from a constant source that is free and environmentally friendly.

Boy, do I feel sorry for residents in Fairbanks.  Most of the residents up there are paying $500-$600 a month for heating oil to heat their homes.

For all the owners of conventional oil burners, fear not.  I have have written several articles for you including how to troubleshoot everything known to man.  I even made a post about how these burners work to heat your homes.

But for residential owners who have extra cash and want to save a little bit of money in the future please read this.

Like I have said before it was the best item I ever spent my money on.

Best Heating System You can Get

Thursday, November 12th, 2009
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Do you think I regret my decision in purchasing a waste oil burner at all when my natural gas bills come in?

Its the best heating system I could have every gotten.

As you can see from the picture below my total heating expense for this month was $9.00.  I live in the coldest state of the the country and my gas bill is only nine dollars!  Sometimes I cannot believe this whole idea of mine actually worked.

How do you think I am able to do this?  The answer is I bought a waste oil boiler back in 2007.

I have a company that generates tons of used waste oil and it was becoming a pain to get rid of it.  I was having a company come by and pick it up every other week and it was becoming a huge pain.  At times they wanted to charge me for it as well even though they planned to re-sell it to companies who make asphalt.

October Natural Gas Bill

October Natural Gas Bil

So as you may already know every furnace or boiler has an oil burner in them.  Some of them run off natural gas, some run on electricity, but most of them throughout this country (especially on the east coast) run off heating oil.   I  had found out, from doing a lot of research, that you can purchase oil burners especially designed to run off used motor oil.

I was skeptical as usual (its very hard to convince me of anything) but the idea of being able to completely heat your home, office, or any building you own off a product that’s considered waste by most people was just too tempting to pass up.

I live in Alaska and as you may or may not know winter in this area lasts for six to seven months.  And as you might have guessed it gets extremely cold (duh!). So you can also imagine how much a person stands to save if he could totally erase a heating bill from his monthly expenses.

I have already saved thousands by purchasing my Energy Logic waste oil boiler.  Every ounce of heat I use now is absolutely free.  As of now I can run my home and garage at 80 degrees or 60 degrees and it does not matter.

As I have stated before every winter the gas company have become suspicious of me tampering with the meter.  I have told the meter guys over and over again that I am not running my home off natural gas.

They do not seem to believe me.  Most people have no idea that this type of alternative energy technology even exists.  Those guys have every home in their grid on their computer system and cannot accept the fact that I only owe them $9.00 a month when its -20 Fahrenheit outside.  I think its hilarious.  If I were in their shoes I would think the exact same thing.

So I know for a fact that once the weather dips down to bellow zero (its actually been fairy warm for November) I’ll be seeing some of the meter guys come wanting to talk to me and ask me all sorts of questions because they think I am lying to them.

Investing in my waste oil burner for my boiler has helped me become more self sufficient and has allowed me to reduce my heating bill to absolutely nothing (well, $9.00 for the hook-up fee).

I have not had any problems with my set-up at all.  I have taken the time and funds to maintain my expensive machine and it has never given any problems whatsoever.  You have to filter the oil, make certain no condensation gets into your burner, and do annual tune ups every years.  If you do this I can almost guarantee that you will have the same results.

Oil Burner Nozzles

Tuesday, August 25th, 2009
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If your oil burner in your boiler or furnace is not lighting up, running rough, or not running as efficiently as it could be its highly likely that there is something wrong with your oil burner nozzle.

Its these devices that meters the flow of heating fuel, natural gas, or waste oil (for alternative energy fans) to the combustion chamber.  These nozzles are specifically designed to spray a very fine mist of fuel in a pre-set pattern to be ignited as its coming out.

The pattern, to my knowledge,  is different depending on what type of combustion chamber you have.

The opening on these nozzles is not big at all.  They are extremely small and usually come with a stainless filter at the back opening to filter any moisture or contaminants that have not been filtered out already.  Having said that its extremely easy for oil burner nozzles to get plugged.

The spinner will oftentimes wear on the inside changing the flame pattern.  It happens all the time.  These things are extremely delicate and you would be surprised by how little it takes for them not to be working at 100% efficiency level.

I would highly recommend you get your nozzles changed at least once a year to make sure you have everything working exactly the way it should.  If you get an annual tune up on your heating boiler or furnace they usually change the nozzle, other various filters (oil and air), and drain your tanks.

On a side note you would be surprised by how much moisture builds up in your holding tank where you store your heating oil.  Your may not think there is any condensation in there but water is one of the main culprits in oil burner nozzles clogging up.

There are three types of nozzles from what I know and they are: solid cone, semisolid cone and hollow cone.  You only need to know this information if you plan to change them out yourself.  Please do not try to attempt to do this if you do not know what you are doing.  Me and my business partner will change them out from time to time because the distributor who installed it for us walked us through it step by step.  Because we have a waste oil boiler we try to change them out semi-annually.  Even having said that I sometimes get a professional to do it because I do not like the hassle.

But anyway, you need to know which type of nozzle your boiler or furnace uses because each one of the types just mentioned has a different spray pattern.  You do not want to put the wrong one on!