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The heart of your heating system ... where warmth
begins.
An oil burner has these key characteristics:
* An electric motor that drives the fan and fuel pump.
* The fan pushes air to the burner’s air tube to support combustion.
* The pump draws oil from the tank and delivers it to the nozzle.
* The regulating valve, located in the pump housing, produces the
right
amount of pressure to atomize the oil
.
* The ignition/transformer produces a high-voltage spark that provides
enough heat to vaporize the atomized oil from the nozzle and achieve
ignition.
* The drawer assembly holds the nozzle and electrodes.
Heating oil in liquid form must be turned into vapor and mixed with
air before it can burn. When the oil from the storage tank reaches
the burner’s nozzle, it’s broken into small droplets. This process
is called atomizing. These droplets are mixed with air and then
ignited by the burner.
The efficiency of the oil-air mix achieved by a burner depends on
its design. The biggest difference between old burners and modern
ones is the air handling step of the process.Flame Retention Burner
In the late 1960s, the manufacturers of Oilheat equipment introduced
the flame retention burner, which produced a smaller, more compact
flame. Since its advent, the high-efficiency flame retention burner
has saved homeowners billions of dollars in fuel costs. More than
six billion gallons of fuel have been conserved. The flame retention
burner has also helped reduce emission levels of oil-fired heating
systems to almost zero.
Compared with older burners, the flame retention burner:
* Burns cleaner.
* Has an efficiency level that’s 5% – 15% higher.
* Produces a hotter flame.
* Maintains an airflow pattern that results in a more complete mixing
of fuel and air.
The flame retention burner gets its name from the compact flame
it produces as illustrated in the diagram above. Older burners produce
a less controlled, less efficient flame as shown in the diagram
below.
Clean Burning
The newest burners for Oilheat systems make home heating with oil
cleaner and more environmentally friendly than ever before. Advancements
in Oilheat technology have made Oilheat 95% cleaner than it was
25 years ago.
* Modern oil burners use electronic pre-purge and post-purge controls
that ensure ultra-clean starts and stops. The high static air pressure
produced by the burner helps prevent particle buildup.
* Achievements in oil burner technology have resulted in emissions
levels approaching zero.
* The oil burners of today are so clean that they produce on average
six ounces of particulate emissions (or soot) a year. To put that
in context, consider that the six ounces of emissions comes from
burning three tons of heating oil.
* Oilheat burns so clean that there are no federal regulations.
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