Available now for downloading as a 35-page Acrobat pdf e-book – see below
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Available now for downloading as a 35-page Acrobat pdf e-book – see below |
Free heating!
This waste oil heater will save you thousands of dollars in heating bills.
Roger Sanders' improved version of the Mother Earth News waste oil
heater solves all the problems that made the original MEN version
difficult to use.
Roger's
design is simple, reliable and easy to use – it's quiet and uses no
electricity – it has reliable oil flow and a wide heat range – it's easy
to light and easy to clean.
"It is a practical design that you can use day in and day out for
seriously heating your dwelling or workshop without costing you a lot of
time and frustration," he says.
Now, after five years of use, much experimentation, many upgrades, and
hundreds of letters from readers and builders, Roger has updated his
original waste oil heater project with a great deal of new information
and new options.
This Second Edition
has far more detail and information based on practical experience.
Fully illustrated with many photographs and design drawings, there are
whole new sections on:
Automation
– and more.
Easy to build:
"The design of the heater is non-critical, and easy for DIYers to build
with common tools. You don't have to build a heater exactly like mine
to make it work."
The burner in action
Heat range:
The heater runs smoothly at any temperature from 180 to 1,000 degrees F
(82 to 538 degrees C) – for more heat, all you have to do is increase
the oil-flow by opening the needle valve on the oil feed.
"My heater will put out an awful lot of heat. My shop is poorly
insulated, yet the heater has no trouble holding a room temperature of
100 degrees F (38 degrees C), when the outside temperature is –20
degrees (–29 degrees C). That's a 120-degree temperature gradient (67
degrees C) in what is essentially a 4-car garage. That's a lot of heat."
Quick, simple, efficient:
"The burner is incredibly simple and is quick and easy to clean.
Cleaning takes only seconds as all you need do is lift the burner out of
the heater and scrape its flat conical surface with a putty knife.
"This design allows me to obtain excellent heat control over a very
wide temperature range. I can get huge amounts of heat or turn it down
to where the heater is just barely warm.
"It
is like using a large combustion chamber for high heat and a small one
for low heat. As a result, the heater burns efficiently and uses a
minimum of fuel for any given heat setting."
Fuel consumption:
"When turned down to a low setting, the heater will burn less than a
gallon of oil per day (3.8 liters). When the heater is running on
'high', it can burn about one gallon per hour."
Environmental issues:
"Commercial waste oil heaters use large amounts of electricity, which
is expensive and defeats the idea of using 'free' fuel and being
environmentally responsible. They atomize the oil through a nozzle. The
contaminants in the oil are atomized as well, and a blower is used,
causing the contaminants to be blown out the flue into the atmosphere.
The contaminants include toxic substances such as heavy metals (lead,
zinc, cadmium. chromium) that are better left behind in a burner rather
than being discharged into the atmosphere where we can breathe them.
"So vaporization heaters like the MEN heater are more 'green' than an
atomization heater. My heater distills the oil, automatically removing
heavy metals from the oil before burning it. This heater effectively
eliminates airborne, heavy metal pollution. I consider my heater to be
environmentally friendly and essentially pollution-free."
Detailed design plans
Carbon emissions and greenhouse gases:
"Commercial waste oil heater emissions also include carbon monoxide
gas, a deadly poison, along with the global warming gases carbon dioxide
and methane. My heater does not burn the carbon in the oil. It remains
as solid carbon molecules we know as soot. The soot molecules flow out
of the flue with the exhaust gases and you see this as smoke – less than
what you would see from a wood stove, but still visible. Soot molecules
are actually carbon molecules, they simply drop out of the air as
harmless carbon. Soot is a more benign way to deal with the carbon in
oil than burning it."
Using waste vegetable oil (WVO):
"Many readers will want to burn waste vegetable oil. Once started with a
second shot of kerosene, veggie oil burned okay. A pool of liquid
vegetable oil formed on the burner and the heater ran reliably and
cleanly using only pure vegetable oil."
Automation:
"The heater I actually use is self-cleaning and it operates under
thermostatic control. It has safety features so there is no possibility
of an oil spill, and I only have to clean it once a month." – Detailed
discussion of automation options.
Everything you need to know! Keep warm and cut the bills!
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