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Waste Vegetable Oil / Greenhouse heater
« on: December 22, 2020, 10:00:19 pm »
So I know the norm with any forum is to have a bunch of read time and not be that newbie. But I can’t find anything on the net about heating a greenhouse with a waste oil furnace. I found some YouTube videos but didn’t find them super helpful.
Here’s the skinny-
Wife and I are opening a large scale nursery/greenhouse retail business. I’m currently heating her 30x40 propagation greenhouse with natural gas and that thing runs constantly!
I want to explore waste oil to heat our 4,000 sq ft greenhouse that’s being put up this spring.
I spoke with linaire today and they said the ducted units don’t put off a smell or oil residue. Is that true? I can’t have a greenhouse full of plants get nasty.
2nd question— I live in a rural area and a lot of the shops burn their own oil. Is it hard finding used oil? I have an in with the local Walmart and I’m going to see if I can get theirs. But it’s doubtful.
3rd part— can a linair system burn waste cooking oil? I understand it needs to be well filtered. But it says in the instructions that they don’t recommend cooking oil. Reasons other than epa regulations? I feel like I could get cooking oil easier than motor oil with all the fast food joints around here.
Also, am I going to be working on this thing constantly? Being a greenhouse if it went down it would be bad. I plan on putting in a backup LP unit but if it were to go down when it’s 10 degrees outside for a week it would cost me $250-400 a day to heat it with LP. So I don’t really want a system that will go down.
If you couldn’t tell I’m a newbie to waste oil.
Here’s the skinny-
Wife and I are opening a large scale nursery/greenhouse retail business. I’m currently heating her 30x40 propagation greenhouse with natural gas and that thing runs constantly!
I want to explore waste oil to heat our 4,000 sq ft greenhouse that’s being put up this spring.
I spoke with linaire today and they said the ducted units don’t put off a smell or oil residue. Is that true? I can’t have a greenhouse full of plants get nasty.
2nd question— I live in a rural area and a lot of the shops burn their own oil. Is it hard finding used oil? I have an in with the local Walmart and I’m going to see if I can get theirs. But it’s doubtful.
3rd part— can a linair system burn waste cooking oil? I understand it needs to be well filtered. But it says in the instructions that they don’t recommend cooking oil. Reasons other than epa regulations? I feel like I could get cooking oil easier than motor oil with all the fast food joints around here.
Also, am I going to be working on this thing constantly? Being a greenhouse if it went down it would be bad. I plan on putting in a backup LP unit but if it were to go down when it’s 10 degrees outside for a week it would cost me $250-400 a day to heat it with LP. So I don’t really want a system that will go down.
If you couldn’t tell I’m a newbie to waste oil.