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Title: New section for oil/bio/glycerol burners?
Post by: Tony on February 27, 2013, 03:24:11 PM
Seems to be a point of interest and doesn't fit anywhere else here - shall we make a new section to discuss burners?  This could include household heating using oil fired boilers on biodiesel, or stationary engine CHP operation.

Just gauging interest.
Title: Re: New section for oil/bio/glycerol burners?
Post by: Oilybloke on February 27, 2013, 05:19:28 PM
Very interested, I need to bone up on this!
Title: Re: New section for oil/bio/glycerol burners?
Post by: greasemonkey on February 27, 2013, 05:22:57 PM
YES!

Currently covered in a thick layer of black WMO soot.
Title: Re: New section for oil/bio/glycerol burners?
Post by: Dickjotec on February 27, 2013, 05:39:32 PM
Yes, always seeking help with the CHP and considering heating a hot tub with a Turk burner.
Dick
Title: Re: New section for oil/bio/glycerol burners?
Post by: therecklessengineer on February 27, 2013, 06:10:15 PM
Yes! I'm particularly interested in trying to persuade my workshop oil fired boiler into running on WMO.
Title: Re: New section for oil/bio/glycerol burners?
Post by: Tony on February 27, 2013, 06:29:03 PM
Done  :)
Title: Re: New section for oil/bio/glycerol burners?
Post by: photoman290 on February 27, 2013, 06:50:07 PM
give me a few days and i will do a proper write up with pics of my waste oil burner. not sure if i can do a wiki page. f not i will put the design up here and someone else can do one. my patience with this sort of thing is very short nowadays. ;D
Title: Re: New section for oil/bio/glycerol burners?
Post by: nathanrobo on February 27, 2013, 07:39:08 PM
Oh yes!  B nice if it included oil fired / bio fired boilers.  I was thinking of fitting a boiler on one side of the house (opposite side to the gas boiler), that heats water in the central heating system so that as it returns to the gas boiler hot, it doesn't cut in.

A section that indicated a cost comparison with Gas would b good too :-)
Title: Re: New section for oil/bio/glycerol burners?
Post by: greasemonkey on February 27, 2013, 08:36:09 PM
Sound as a pound. Its great fun experimenting with these ideas. Even if there is no particular purpose in mind, and it is a sense of achievement when it goes right. It's never as simple as it looks, but I think it is worth doing so you don't have to go through the learning curve so far when you actually find a use for a burner.