How to Heat Your Home With Bio diesel
Bio diesel has been promoted mostly as a fuel for diesel-powered vehicles, but it is also perfectly suited as replacement fuel or an additive in a standard oil-fired furnaces. Here's how you can start heating your home using bio diesel. Does this Spark an idea?
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Instructions
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Have your furnace filled to its normal capacity of NO. 2 heating oil less 5 gallons.
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Add 5 gallons of bio diesel fuel to your furnace. Making a B2 blend or 2 percent bio diesel and 98 percent heating oil.
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Increase this ration through out the heating season until a B20 blend is reached.
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Being careful to avoid the inside of your fuel tank and/or the fuel line getting coated with sludge. If this happens, it can cause a clogged fuel filter or burner head. Resulting in expensive repairs, defeating the savings from bio diesel fuel!
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Tips & Warnings
Store Bio diesel fuel inside or in an underground tank.
Bio diesel's "pour point" or temperature it will gel at is only a few degrees higher 11 degrees below zero, which is the pour point for NO. 2 heating oil.
Bio diesel can degrade rubber seals on the burner pump of your fuel tank.
