Convert Natural Gas Furnace To Waste Oil

Parts tools needed with a full explanation demonstration for a diy project.

Convert natural gas furnace to waste oil.

Now that you ve made the psychological leap from an oil furnace to a gas furnace grab your calculator and crunch the numbers. Oil to gas conversions for less than the cost of a total system replacement. Converting a home heating oil furnace to burn waste motor oil waste vegetable oil biodiesel. Then fire up your waste oil heater and cleanly burn your waste products when cold weather arrives.

Ok this is my 1st youtube post. So if your facility generates multiple types of waste oil output you can mix them all together in order to create free heat. Contractors and homeowners are switching away from fuel oil to gain efficiency comfort and reduced maintenance with propane or natural gas furnaces. When you ve recovered from sticker shock subtract the tax credit the feds will give you until the end of 2010 up to 1 500 and remember the 1 120 off your yearly energy bill that the oil to gas leap typically reaps and the upfront costs don t look so bad.

Simply add your used oil transmission fluid and more into the tank. This is a standard home heating furnace that i burn used engine oil in with a small mod. Beckett the premier manufacturer of oil burners has introduced the cg4 gas conversion burner. Not to the furnace but to the fuel.

At a minimum you will need to replace the burner and many older models simply can t be upgraded. However if you need to replace an older oil furnace anyway natural gas may make sense. If so you may be able to convert from oil to gas. The parts for converting an oil burner to run an alternative fuel cost anywhere between 200 400 depending on whether or not the setup is standard nozzle or siphon.

Waste oil being mainly comprised of used engine crankcase oil should be in the ball park of 60 70 cs or 300 400 sus at room temperature which is apparently a lot thicker than the 2. If i m going to have any chance of pulling this off cheaply easily i ll have to get the waste oil s viscosity to match that of the furnace oil. Is your oil fired hot water or steam boiler less than 15 years old. The costs of converting from an oil gas furnace or a propane furnace to a natural gas furnace will depend on the type of furnace that you currently have.

As oil to propane boiler conversions become increasingly popular in the northeast a similar trend is spreading in the forced air heating market. It would be best to call in some professional advice to calculate what these cost would be.