Basically waste oil furnace allow you to heat you home or office off used motor oil instead of electricity, heating oil, or natural gas. Waste oil furnace and boilers are typically fueled with used vegetable oil, recycled oil, used motor oil or used transmission fluid.

Restaurants, auto repair shops, quick lubes and manufacturing facilities generate a surplus of used oil. It is difficult to dispose of used oil. You can tap into this enormous surplus by installing a waste oil furnace today.

This technology takes something that is considered by most to be waste oil furnace and turns it into something that is valuable. There are also plans available online to build waste oil burners yourself that you may want to take a look at as well.

Another benefit economically is that you can use vegetable oil in one of these waste oil burners. While the price originally may be a bit steep for these types of burners, they pay for themselves and your cost is much less.

All you would pay is the electricity for operating the burners. That fact in and of itself can be a lifesaver for people who are stretched to the limit with heating bills. Many more people are discovering this type of heater for themselves and the benefits that go along with using a heater of this sort for a home or business.

A waste oil burner’s primary fuel is used motor oil. This substance is dirty and contaminated. You must do the best job you can at filtering it. You want to get as much dirt and sludge out of there as you possibly can.

The same applies for moisture. Its waste oil so it is never going to be 100% clean unless you put it through a centrifuge which can clean close to 95% of all the dirty and water out in my opinion. But you want to do your best to filter it as much as you humanly can. This can be accomplished by putting it through several 20-30 micron oil filters.

In general the two main issues involved in using a waste oil furnace they are are cleaning the oil and heating the oil. The reason it is necessary to heat the oil is that most waste oils are simply too thick to flow through the heater and burn.