It’s the likes of them that have brought about legislation, no real need for a dirty burn. If the oil is strained and filtered ,burned with the correct nozzel/air ratio and maintained there is no reason for them to be smokey.Garage I knew of used to burn it. Whenever I drove around that area the smell was so strong downwind it always took me a moment to realise that the car wasn't blowing oil...
Although there's some crossover, the technology and controls are different.I tried, initially, to melt metal running an off-the-shelf burner, but, what I didn't realize is that they are mostly designed to fire into a water jacket, which never gets that hot (the water never boils).
But, firing into a furnace just didn't seem to work for me, despite the photos I've seen on the web of other people's success -
My problem was that the conducted / radiated heat back to the burner, from the furnace, was significant. Had I have left it running it would have certainly killed stuff.
Again, I know other people get it to work, but I did not.
I swapped to a much simpler setup with oil being pumped into a tube that I shot air down.
My pump was a pumped loop from a tank with a valve off the loop that I could open to let flow out of the loop and to the burn tube. I could balance it fairly reliably but it was all "melting metal" fierce rather than controlled workshop heating.
My interest in the Amazon thing would be for automated water heating.
its all very well have the right nossle for the burner, but how are you going to control the burning pot so it dose not over flow? how do you get the air in there?
"vortex" not "spiral" - i couldnt think of the word before, but they both mean, pretty much, the same. one sounds fancier though!
nozzle size controls output, but also has an effect on ease of initial ignition
im unsure what size is best. it will depend on the viscosity (and heat, which will then also mean viscosity) of the incoming fuel.
the 0.75 (etc) on kerosene pressure nozzles does not have a correlation with the sizing on these nozzles. the number on kerosene nozzles is us gallons per hour (at some defined pressure, i guess) rather than orifice size.
its all very well have the right nossle for the burner, but how are you going to control the burning pot so it dose not over flow? how do you get the air in there?
"The burning pot"? You need to go back to the very beginning and watch @gaz1 s second vid..its all very well have the right nossle for the burner, but how are you going to control the burning pot so it dose not over flow? how do you get the air in there?
you do need a license which costs £3218 for the initial application to an ongoing £1384 per year afterwards.
All environmental permits are specific to not just the premises, but the installation as detailed in the application.As far as I'm aware the permit isn't site specific so can be applied to multiple sites.
Waste Oil processing has significantly changed in recent years.The irony of it is that licensing was introduced for environmental reasons due to badly maintained burners but the waste oil when collected by third parties is generally burnt anyway to produce power with extra emissions from transporting it to it destination. Better to have just introduced legislation for testing at a reasonable price.
tell you what then if thats the crack then lets just forget about it allI was beginning to think you were a wind up a bit ago, and now I'm fairly convinced.
Ive never really understood why people get off on that.