lou sansone
02-12-2006, 1:24 PM
good afternoon WW's
I was wondering if any of you have an oil furnace in you shops and have had any wood dust / oil burner interaction. My shop is a seperate building with its own force hot air furnace and I have had repeated problems with dust or other fumes getting sucked into the combustion chamber and carbarizing (sp) around the " turburlator". The turburlator is a baffle near the tip of the oil nozzle and igniter that is used to spin the air and oil mist stream for better firing. It seems that several times a year I have to rip the burner apart and clean all the toasted sawdust off the unit so that it fires correctly. I have finally installed a home made fresh air kit on the burner( based upon a few converstaions with my heating contractor buddy ) , but I must still have some small air leaks in the fresh air ducting that is allowing dust to still drift in. I was thinking about trying to put a small muffin fan in the fresh air duct to always have a little positive pressure in the area where the air is drawn into. the thought being that it might prevent any shop air from getting drawn into the burner.
I do have pretty decent DC in my shop ( 3 hp industrial version of oneida cyclone ) , but unfortunatly my 37" widebelt sander is right next to the furnace and I am pretty sure some small amount of stray sanding dust is getting into the furnace.
any ideas ?
thanks
lou
I was wondering if any of you have an oil furnace in you shops and have had any wood dust / oil burner interaction. My shop is a seperate building with its own force hot air furnace and I have had repeated problems with dust or other fumes getting sucked into the combustion chamber and carbarizing (sp) around the " turburlator". The turburlator is a baffle near the tip of the oil nozzle and igniter that is used to spin the air and oil mist stream for better firing. It seems that several times a year I have to rip the burner apart and clean all the toasted sawdust off the unit so that it fires correctly. I have finally installed a home made fresh air kit on the burner( based upon a few converstaions with my heating contractor buddy ) , but I must still have some small air leaks in the fresh air ducting that is allowing dust to still drift in. I was thinking about trying to put a small muffin fan in the fresh air duct to always have a little positive pressure in the area where the air is drawn into. the thought being that it might prevent any shop air from getting drawn into the burner.
I do have pretty decent DC in my shop ( 3 hp industrial version of oneida cyclone ) , but unfortunatly my 37" widebelt sander is right next to the furnace and I am pretty sure some small amount of stray sanding dust is getting into the furnace.
any ideas ?
thanks
lou