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Equipment Options - Burners
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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.
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The fan pushes air to the
burner’s air tube to support
combustion.
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The pump draws oil from the tank
and delivers it to the nozzle.
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The regulating valve, located in
the pump housing, produces the
right amount of pressure to
atomize the oil.
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The drawer assembly holds the
nozzle and electrodes.
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The ignition/transformer
produces a high-voltage spark
that provides enough heat to
vaporize the atomized oil from
the nozzle and achieve ignition.
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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.
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Has an efficiency level that’s
5% – 15% higher.
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Produces a hotter flame.
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Maintains an airflow pattern
that results in a more complete
mixing of fuel and air.
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Clean Burning
The newest burners for oil heat
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.
Oil heat burns so
clean that there are no federal
regulations.
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