Does anyone use hot water to heat up their oil for processing.

[dgs]

My bio room is bl**dy freezing in Winter, so I'm thinking of installing an oil c/h unit that I will use for heating the room and also to heat the processor.

A copper coil in the processor and wash/drying tank with suitable fittings in the side of the poly tanks. I will use 50/50 bio/kerro for the fuel and would hope to buy a second hand unit, preferably fitted with a riello 40 burner which i know work really well on bio/kerro blends.

Does anyone on here do a similar thing.

[Manfred]

I think julesandtash uses his palm bio to heat his house and workshop, so he might also use it to heat his oil up.

[Jamesrl]

I used to, I built a fully double skinned reactor.

[K.H]

Room? Room? i would kill for a room, try outside if you want cold 

[Head Womble]

Room? Room? i would kill for a room, try outside if you want cold 

Typical, the builder can't even put his own bio shed up.

[Julian]

Room? Room? i would kill for a room, try outside if you want cold 

Typical, the builder can't even put his own bio shed up.

Probably as well he's not built  a shed ... he'd only cover it in wine labels.

[Head Womble]

Room? Room? i would kill for a room, try outside if you want cold 

Typical, the builder can't even put his own bio shed up.

Probably as well he's not built  a shed ... he'd only cover it in wine labels.

Where would he get so many wine labels from I wonder ?

[Jamesrl]

He could build the walls with wine bottles, save sticking the labels on.

[Dickjotec]

My bio room is bl**dy freezing in Winter, so I'm thinking of installing an oil c/h unit that I will use for heating the room and also to heat the processor.

A copper coil in the processor and wash/drying tank with suitable fittings in the side of the poly tanks. I will use 50/50 bio/kerro for the fuel and would hope to buy a second hand unit, preferably fitted with a riello 40 burner which i know work really well on bio/kerro blends.

Does anyone on here do a similar thing.

I do an initial heat with water in a coil. I run it from the ch boiler I run on bio. The boiler and/ or lister heat a heat store then the water is pumped where needed to heat the house, cabin, hot tub and/ or processor as needed. I tend to get the processor up to 40 ish degrees so I can go down and immediately do a glyc wash with NaOH glyc while the lister takes over on an immersion heater and coil to get it up to processing temp. The boiler also melts the glyc with a coil ready to wash. The boiler is on a timmer.

[dgs]

Sounds very efficient Dickjotec.

How converted/ purified is the bio that you run the boiler on. Presumably your heat store is very well insulated.

[Dickjotec]

Heat store is a 205 clip top drum very well insulated and in the engine bunker, which is predominantly underground, and insulated. The boiler is also in the bunker so the bunker is always warm. The heat store goes up to about 55c the boiler then goes off  and then the heating runs for a couple of hours till it drops to 40c and the pumps switch off. This is not the only heat we have in the house and cabin, just background.
The bio for the boiler is not very pure with a 5/45 fallout of around 2. I have run it on a mix of bio and oil and it is fine but needs cleaning much more often. I have a heater on the nozzel that gets it up to about 60c before the boiler fires.