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Can I used vegetable oil? I need 3000 btus to heat my apartment?
I have a small apartment in Japan. The main room measures about 12 ft by 12 ft and a 15 ft ceiling. I am using a 3000 btu space heater (900 watt) to keep it at 70 fahrenheit. But its costing too much. I have a source of free vegetable oil. I have a kitchen vent and a stainless steel surface. What burner design would allow me to burn vegetable oil to make 3000 btus and heat the apartment? I have fabrication skills. I would need just a small flame to make 3000 btus
Public Comments
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- Regardless of the type of burner you use, make sure your home insurance is paid up and covers arson. Also, if you have a conscience, you must warn everyone else in the building to flee. Then buy the largest fire extinguisher you can find - just in case your invention is faulty. Good luck.
- unless you wish to be behind bar, I will totally forget the idea you have, vegetable oil not only makes smoke it will burn. particularly in Japan many sorts of heater can be purchased. if you wish you can purchase a radiator type, which is portable, with oil filled and has a small fan on the side for warm air to circulate. this method is cheap and safe, you wont regret it
- Vegetable oil, like oil from McDonald's french friar, has to be refined just like real oil or gas. All the stories you hear do not get into all that because it takes thousands of bucks to have a refinery for these types of oils.
- You did say vegetable oil!! Since corn is a veggie oil and is one of the main ingredients in bio diesel fuel, why not. I have seen diesel engines run on sump oil used for lubrication. It ran so fast and couldn't be shut down until all blow down valve were opened and it lost compression. Vegetable or used veggie oil will have to be filtered and cleaned to burn clean. I don't know if there is a heater on the market just yet designed to burn veggie oil in the home. I know they have them for industries to heat with waste oil. You could try wearing a big sweater and turn the thermostat down a few degrees
