In MN quite a few fuel oil tanks for home heating are in home basements since it sometimes gets cold enough to gel fuel oil in the dead of winter. It would seem to me that Biodeisel would be even safer than fuel oil to store indoors. Our group has been looking into converting fuel oil furnaces to filtered, dewatered WVO and even at "room" temperture this gels. The proposed solution to this is to insulate the tank and install a heater element from an electric water heater and a thermostat to keep the WVO from gelling. Installation would be close to the tank outlet to most effeciently use the small amount of electricity needed to keep the WVO flowing and the thermostat would be set at just above the "cloud" temperature. A self regulating heat tape of the type used to prevent water line freeze up would be used to heat the line running from the tank to the furnace. Cost of this modification of fuel oil tanks should be about $60us, less if you can salvage from discarded water heater.
This may be useful for those who are unable or unwilling to have a tank of Biodeisel inside thier home for central heating oil. One of our members is also considering using the glycerine component of BD production as home heating fuel and so will need to have this type of setup to keep it liquid. He has no room in his basement for the tanks and so is planning on building an insulated "shed" on the side of his home large enough for a 500 gallon tank. He has chosen as his "project" to try modifying a standard fuel oil furnace "gun" to work with the Glycerine component of BD production. Does anyone have any pointers having done this themselves. Theorys? thanks Dana __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/ Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
