Waste oil burners

Waste oil burners

Friday 19 November 2010

How to light

To light the unit is a simple process, firstly 150ml or1/3rd a jam jar of oil is placed in the burning chamber.
A firelighter is then placed in the chamber.
Once the oil starts to burn and build up the heat in the chamber, this starts the convection from the flu. The unit is then left for a few minutes until the oil placed inside is burning away,  The flame will reach a peak then start to die down again.
At this point you then turn the regulating valve on approx 1/8 of a turn and in a minuite or so the oil feeds into the burner and ignites. The amount of oil is a bit more than a drip but still a narrow flow through the valve outlet.
It takes approx 30 seconds for the oil to get inside the burning chamber though this will depend on the viscosity of the oil, you need to bear this in mind when settling the burner ie when you increase or decrease the amount of oil it will take 30 seconds or so for the change to take effect inside the oil burner.

Below shows a picture of our oil feed.



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