Homemade Used Oil Burning Furnace

The completed furnace s burner assembly is filled with crushed asbestos or an asbestos brick.

Homemade used oil burning furnace.

Materials list an old or new wood stove. You can make this waste oil burner for very little money and it is very easy to install. From there the oil and fuel can be opened up a the thing can be run flat out. A small amount of starting fluid is put in the burner or it can be started with a bunch of old rag or some burning sticks.

In slow pyrolysis gases are released from dry biomass as it s heated in the absence of oxygen. For my oil source my buddy 8217 s give me their old oil and there is a mexican restaurant that i can get waste oil from when i need it. We needed a system that could reliably burn pyrolysis oil a coproduct of our slow pyrolysis method of biochar production. This is an affordable option for many especially those that want to heat their workshop without wasting other materials in the process.

A guy like me is big on recycling earth friendliness and saving money. I recommend using an air tight stove with a secondary burn a 2 piece of 1 5 black iron pipe if you don t have a welder then one end of that pipe will need to be threaded and a black iron 45 will need to be used with a short 1 5 black iron nipple. As an added fire precaution the bottom of the stove is then filled with sand. Even before i started melting metal with propane i dreamt about building a burner that cleanly burned used or waste oil i got interested after seeing an old article from mother earth news magazine about a homemade heating stove that burned waste motor oil.

This video shows the build of a gravity fed drip waste oil burner this is the one of the simplest design for maximum heat and flexibility the concept behind this burner is that oil does not burn but the fumes it gives off when the oil is boiling the deeper the pan the harder is it to maintain an efficient boil a cast iron pan maintains the higher temperature the best and does not threaten. Https goo gl 1m56i5 this is a simple diy project. At living web farms our end goal was a machine not limited to the use of waste motor oils or even used vegetable oils.