Heating with vegetable oil
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Jadnashua
Retired Defense Industry Engineer xxx
Not likely...even with today's prices, vegetable oil is more expensive than the petrolium based stuff. There is a moderate underground market for a substitute for diesel in vehicles. Dumping french frie smelling exhaust is one thing on a vehicle, but I'm not sure I'd like it in my house. I worked in a fried chicken place in high school, that smell ended up permeating the car from my clothes. Nasty.
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Bob NH
In the Trades
Mix the Vegetable Oil
If the vegetable oil is free and you want to burn it, and you are burning fuel oil as we do in the northeast, you can mix it in your fuel oil tank. It should be filtered to get rid of the french fry and fried chicken batter pieces, but adding 2 to 5 gallons to 200 gallons of #2 oil in your oil tank will not be noticed. I would do it only if my tank is inside; not where it is going to get below freezing and solifidy the hydrogenated components of the cooking oil.
I would never pay a premium for vegetable oil. My measure of value is most BTUs/$.
If the vegetable oil is free and you want to burn it, and you are burning fuel oil as we do in the northeast, you can mix it in your fuel oil tank. It should be filtered to get rid of the french fry and fried chicken batter pieces, but adding 2 to 5 gallons to 200 gallons of #2 oil in your oil tank will not be noticed. I would do it only if my tank is inside; not where it is going to get below freezing and solifidy the hydrogenated components of the cooking oil.
I would never pay a premium for vegetable oil. My measure of value is most BTUs/$.
