for the last few years we have amassed 4000-6000 litres of waste oil per
year.
This is mainly used engine oil from industrial diesels but also a small
percentage of gear oils, hydraulic oils and diesel fuel.
This is stored in ibc's and taken away when all four are filled.
An increasingly costly process.

Does anyone know of an economical way of either using this waste for heating
purposes or a more economical method of disposal.

Thanks,
Nick.

Nick wrote:

Does anyone know of an economical way of either using this waste for heating
purposes or a more economical method of disposal.

My mate's dad heats his workshop in winter with a purpose-built heater
running on waste oil. I believe it drips the oil onto a hot cast-iron
plate where it burns, inside a heavy iron casing. A fan blows air round
the outside of this casing and into the room. Lighting it is somewhat
involved; you have to stuff a few diesel-soaked rags into the bottom to
heat the plate up before it can start burning oil. Apparently though you
can buy self-starting versions, at a price.

He has a big tank outside (domestic heating oil tank surplus to
requirements) that slowly fills up over the summer and gets used during
winter.

Pete

Nick wrote:

for the last few years we have amassed 4000-6000 litres of waste oil per
year.
This is mainly used engine oil from industrial diesels but also a small
percentage of gear oils, hydraulic oils and diesel fuel.
This is stored in ibc's and taken away when all four are filled.
An increasingly costly process.

Does anyone know of an economical way of either using this waste for heating
purposes or a more economical method of disposal.

Thanks,
Nick.

Thats a lot of fuel.
http://www.wiki.diyfaq.org.uk/index....e=Oil#Disposal


NT

On Feb 7, 10:22*pm, Pete Verdon
d wrote:
Nick wrote:
Does anyone know of an economical way of either using this waste for heating
purposes or a more economical method of disposal.

My mate's dad heats his workshop in winter with a purpose-built heater
running on waste oil. I believe it drips the oil onto a hot cast-iron
plate where it burns, inside a heavy iron casing. A fan blows air round
the outside of this casing and into the room. Lighting it is somewhat
involved; you have to stuff a few diesel-soaked rags into the bottom to
heat the plate up before it can start burning oil. Apparently though you
can buy self-starting versions, at a price.

He has a big tank outside (domestic heating oil tank surplus to
requirements) that slowly fills up over the summer and gets used during
winter.

Pete

I have seen a 'home-made' heater of that sort which dripped oil onto a
hot ex-heavy truck brake drum some six inches deep which acted as the
burn pot.
It might be possible to use a modified oil stove/heater (not the
paraffin-oil/kerosene wick type) that uses a carburetor, by filtering
the oil carefully first. But they are now uncommon. I have an old oil
stove carburetor but don't have such a heater any more to try it.
There is/was a drive through auto service station in this city that as
long as 20 years ago was burning the waste oil from engine changes in
a furnace that heated the premises by hot air. Made a lot of sense
with outside doors opening and closing as vehicles were serviced and
moved through. Here we now pay a waste oil disposal charge and
understand that it is shipped to a refinery for 'reprocessing'.
Have also heard of mixing it with sawdust and burning. If one had a
plentiful supply, such as at a sawmill, could be used for plant
heating. Probably not environmentally acceptable?
In some places where wood is primary fuel there are outdoor wood
furnaces; in other words the actual burner is located in an outside
shed or building, to keep wood chips etc., ash removal and smoke away,
and hot air or hot water is routed into the residence for heating.
Such a system could perhaps be modified to primarily burn (or add)
waste oil.

Nick wrote:
for the last few years we have amassed 4000-6000 litres of waste oil per
year.
This is mainly used engine oil from industrial diesels but also a small
percentage of gear oils, hydraulic oils and diesel fuel.
This is stored in ibc's and taken away when all four are filled.
An increasingly costly process.

Does anyone know of an economical way of either using this waste for heating
purposes or a more economical method of disposal.


You can make a burner for this stuff, but the real problem is getting
rid of dissolved pollutants.

The will clog filters and burner nozzles, and push some pretty illicit
compounds into the atmosphere.


Thanks,
Nick.

On Sat, 7 Feb 2009 23:56:56 -0000, Nick wrote:

Does anyone know of an economical way of either using this waste for
heating purposes or a more economical method of disposal.

Commercial waste oil burners are available one of the local garages has
one to heat the workshop. The suggestions of drip/wick/sawdust burners
will almost certainly fall foul of pollutions controls these days. You
need a high temperature burn to (hopefully) break down the nasties in the
waste oil. Your mix of oils might be a problem as well.

I'm sure google will be far more helpful than here.

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Cheers
Dave.

Pete Verdon wrote:
Nick wrote:

Does anyone know of an economical way of either using this waste for
heating purposes or a more economical method of disposal.

http://www.wasteoilheaters.co.uk/



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Dave - The Medway Handyman
www.medwayhandyman.co.uk

In article ,
Nick wrote:
for the last few years we have amassed 4000-6000 litres of waste oil per
year.
This is mainly used engine oil from industrial diesels but also a small
percentage of gear oils, hydraulic oils and diesel fuel.
This is stored in ibc's and taken away when all four are filled.
An increasingly costly process.

Does anyone know of an economical way of either using this waste for
heating purposes or a more economical method of disposal.

Garage/workshop heaters for just this purpose were certainly available
once - they usually had to be started on paraffin. Then would burn any old
oil. Probably fallen foul of pollution regs these days - although one I
remember didn't even have a flue to the outside...

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*It is easier to get older than it is to get wiser.

Dave Plowman London SW
To e-mail, change noise into sound.

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember "Nick" saying
something like:

Does anyone know of an economical way of either using this waste for heating
purposes or a more economical method of disposal.

Waste oil heaters have been available for years. I don't mean the
workshop heaters, I mean pressure jet /syphon burners that use waste
oil. They're not cheap - around the £2K mark, but with that amount of
waste oil to burn in one, it would pay for itself quickly.

The Medway Handyman wrote:
Pete Verdon wrote:
Nick wrote:

Does anyone know of an economical way of either using this waste
for heating purposes or a more economical method of disposal.

My mate's dad heats his workshop in winter with a purpose-built
heater running on waste oil.

http://www.wasteoilheaters.co.uk/

Yup. My mate's dad has one of these:

http://www.wasteoilheaters.co.uk/was...il-heater.html

(or possibly a different size in the same range).

Pete

Grimly Curmudgeon wrote:
We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember "Nick" saying
something like:

Does anyone know of an economical way of either using this waste for
heating purposes or a more economical method of disposal.

Waste oil heaters have been available for years. I don't mean the
workshop heaters, I mean pressure jet /syphon burners that use waste
oil. They're not cheap - around the £2K mark, but with that amount of
waste oil to burn in one, it would pay for itself quickly.

Looking here
http://www.wasteoilheaters.co.uk/was...il-heater.html

it would seem that burning 2 litres an hour generates 60,000btu. So running
it 40 hours a week gives the OP 2 years free heating just from the oil he
already has. Not bad for a £1000 outlay on a heater.


--
Dave - The Medway Handyman
www.medwayhandyman.co.uk