Hey guys.......
Haven't been on here in a while. My system is running along happily. Pretty much trouble free, and with the warm winter we're having so far I don't have to stoke the stove full more than 2x a day..... Usually start around 4 to 5, then restoke to the top between 9 & 10 and forget about it till the next night...
BUT, that being said, I've got an ever growing collection of waste oil. Being I run a mechanic shop, I've gathered up more than 200 gals of waste oil. I've been reading online about converting a fuel oil furnace head (which I have) to burn waste oil. My thought is to make a second door to go on the bottom of the EKO 60 and mount the burner there. The plan would be to remove all the U bricks, and have a stainless steel shield to cover the bottom side of the refractory floor to keep the waste oil flame from possibly erroding it; either physically or through chemical attack. Also to keep heat from going into the upper firebox un-necessarily. Then let the gasses go back and up the heat exchanger tubes...
Think it'll work? Seems like it'd work great and be perfect for the dead of winter where there's a fire running most the day anyhow. Sure beats getting up in the middle of the night!
or the flip side, it'd be great for the knee seasons when you only need heat once a night or whatever.... Burner could run on a demand setup...
I've got a NFCS that I will tie the unit into for control. Though the critical startup processes and oil heater control will be stand alone industrial controls.
Haven't been on here in a while. My system is running along happily. Pretty much trouble free, and with the warm winter we're having so far I don't have to stoke the stove full more than 2x a day..... Usually start around 4 to 5, then restoke to the top between 9 & 10 and forget about it till the next night...
BUT, that being said, I've got an ever growing collection of waste oil. Being I run a mechanic shop, I've gathered up more than 200 gals of waste oil. I've been reading online about converting a fuel oil furnace head (which I have) to burn waste oil. My thought is to make a second door to go on the bottom of the EKO 60 and mount the burner there. The plan would be to remove all the U bricks, and have a stainless steel shield to cover the bottom side of the refractory floor to keep the waste oil flame from possibly erroding it; either physically or through chemical attack. Also to keep heat from going into the upper firebox un-necessarily. Then let the gasses go back and up the heat exchanger tubes...
Think it'll work? Seems like it'd work great and be perfect for the dead of winter where there's a fire running most the day anyhow. Sure beats getting up in the middle of the night!
or the flip side, it'd be great for the knee seasons when you only need heat once a night or whatever.... Burner could run on a demand setup...
I've got a NFCS that I will tie the unit into for control. Though the critical startup processes and oil heater control will be stand alone industrial controls.