You don’t want to use biodiesel for heating fuel. Untreated oil (BioD uses expensive chemical to lower the viscosity of the liquid, while untreated oil is just the thicker main ingredient for BioD) will burn in a furnace just fine. It would be a waste of money to treat the liquid to make it into BioD, when you could just burn WVO.
it all depends on how old you heater is it would work ok in a older model as long as you swap the rubber lines for metal. The newer models like 2000+. They have more electronics and it could disrupt something like filtering.
You don’t need to swap rubber lines for metal. You need to swap “natural rubber” lines for synthetic rubber lines. However synthetic rubber is the only thing that has been sold in the last 20 years, so that’s probably not a big concern.
Using WVO is not that simple. It is more viscous and that can present problems. It tends to have particulate matter that needs to be filtered so you don’t clog things. It can also have water content and acidity (which could corrode heater parts). Watch for those problems and sure, it can work.
Transesterified biodiesel would also work fine, it solves all of the above problems. The chemicals are not expensive and only needed in small quantity.
and do you convert any think ???
As far as I’m aware – you treat bio-diesel the same as ordinary diesel !
You don’t want to use biodiesel for heating fuel. Untreated oil (BioD uses expensive chemical to lower the viscosity of the liquid, while untreated oil is just the thicker main ingredient for BioD) will burn in a furnace just fine. It would be a waste of money to treat the liquid to make it into BioD, when you could just burn WVO.
it all depends on how old you heater is it would work ok in a older model as long as you swap the rubber lines for metal. The newer models like 2000+. They have more electronics and it could disrupt something like filtering.
Sigh, let’s correct some misconceptions.
You don’t need to swap rubber lines for metal. You need to swap “natural rubber” lines for synthetic rubber lines. However synthetic rubber is the only thing that has been sold in the last 20 years, so that’s probably not a big concern.
Using WVO is not that simple. It is more viscous and that can present problems. It tends to have particulate matter that needs to be filtered so you don’t clog things. It can also have water content and acidity (which could corrode heater parts). Watch for those problems and sure, it can work.
Transesterified biodiesel would also work fine, it solves all of the above problems. The chemicals are not expensive and only needed in small quantity.
I have been heating my homes and shops with used motor oil and other petroleum fluids for years. Ya just have to change the filters more often.