Fuel oil furnaces used to be popular before natural gas and electric heat came along as a cleaner source of heating fuel but we have learned a lot since those days. Oil is still used for many purposes outside of running and maintaining vehicles. Manufacturing facilities and machines powered by diesel fuel go through a ton of petroleum-based oil. Recycling all of this waste oil in a furnace is a natural choice instead of burying in our soil.
Clean Burn Energy Systems is a privately held company that has been engineering, testing and manufacturing waste oil furnaces since 1979. Simple physics proclaim their success in constructing a unit that has 200% more surface area for capturing combustion heat so you get more heat using less oil. A simple and money saving alternative to factories that have to now pay to have used oil disposed of.
1500 gallons of used oil equals $3750.00 that could be put toward a waste oil furnace and provide your heat free. Most companies can enjoy a payoff in 18-24 months after they begin to use their unit. Clean Burn offers numerous models from 140,000 to 500,000 BTUs per hour. For a small shop that discards less than 1000 gallons of oil per year, the CB-1400 Furnace is a good choice. Designed to run on crankcase, ATF, hydraulic oils, you can also run on #2, #4, and #5 fuel oils.
While old models of fuel oil furnaces were known for a discharge of black smoke, Clean Burn makes their units environmentally friendly with filters and precise gear ratios and pump speeds, designed for each individual situation. The key component is the oil pump and many patented features on the processes used. If there is a drawback to this line of waste oil furnaces, it is the weight. Using only heavy thick steel gears that are continually bathed in oil, their units may weigh up to 200# more that a unit without such durable construction.
Measure the amount of petroleum fluids that your company wastes on a yearly basis or perhaps you are in an Industrial Park where such oils can be obtained for the asking. You will find that waste can be very sweet.
