Homemade oil/waste oil burners

Harnessing the power of hot grease

So you wanna build an oil burner for melting metal? Heating water? Warming your workshop or garage? Okay, there might be something here for you. Below is some of my work in the waste oil field.

P.S. If you'd like to share oil burner plans or ideas of your own feel free to e-mail me with details. Caution! Copyrighted material taken from books, magazines etc. will not be accepted for placement on this website without written permission from the copyright owner! -- Dec./29/2002

Green energy guy #1: So I see you're heating your water with used motor oil, how's that working out for you?
Green energy guy #2: It's great but I only accept it from American cars to reduce my dependancy on foreign oil!

Click the photos for more details.

This is one hot mamma!	My G5 burner (generation 5) during a test in 2005.

A newer burner melting metal in the furnace	Oil burns hot enough to melt iron!

Waste oil burners

The hot mamma Lionel's "Ursutz-derived" sheetmetal-shelled cooking oil combustor.
Babington burner page (external link)
Waste-oil burning heater Mother Earth News Magazine's shop heater. (external link)

Regular oil burners

Duel fuel burner Will Brinkley's exhaust recirculating duel-fuel petroleum molecule reactor.

www.BackyardMetalcasting.com

How hot is your fuel?
Fuel	BTU/quantity	Notes
Heating Oil	138-140,000/gallon
Diesel Fuel	128-130,000/gallon
Bio-diesel	120,000/gallon
Kerosine	131,890/gallon	1.05 gallons equals the heat content of one gallon of oil.
Gasoline	109-125,000/gallon
Propane	91,000/gallon	About 1.5 gallons equals 1 gallon of oil.
Natural gas	1,330/cubic foot	135 cubic feet equal 1 gallon of oil
Wood	depends on species	In general one full cord of wood has the heat value of 95 gallons of oil.
Anthracite coal	12,000/pound	About 12 pounds equals 1 gallon of oil.
Electricity	3,413/kilowatt hour (kwh)	40.6 kwh equals 1 gallon of oil.
Statistics are averages taken from various online petroleum company websites

Homepage