Burners The heart of your heating system, where warmth begins. An oil burner has these key character
The heart of your heating system, where warmth begins.
An oil burner has these key characteristics:
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.
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:
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.
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 percent cleaner than it was 25 years ago1.
1,2 Source: USEPA, BNL Report 52249