The Future of Oil Heating
Oil heating is one of the best forms of heating in the UK today. From a cost perspective oil is more economic than rival energy products and oil fired heating systems are exceptionally efficient. Domestic oil...
What is Bio Fuel ? Part 4 Storage and Supply
What are the implications of using bio-liquids in existing oil storage and supply systems Findings from the heating oil project have shown that, subject to the use of bio-liquid compatible filters and fire valves, no other modifications...
What is Bio Fuel ? – Part 3 The Implications
What are the implications of using bio fuel in existing appliances ? The properties of bio-liquids and bio-liquid blends in comparison to mineral fuels such as kerosene are different. This is an important factor to bear in...
What is Bio Fuel ? Part 2 – The research
OFTEC Heating Oil Project - Bio-Liquids For the production of new bio-liquid compatible equipment such as boilers, burners and oil tanks, as well as the conversion of existing installations and equipment, it is vitally important and necessary...
What is Bio-Fuel ? – Part 1 The Science Bit
The introduction of bio-liquids into the home heating and cooking markets creates opportunities for a cleaner, sustainable future for the liquid fuelled industry. What is Bio-Liquid Bio- liquid suitable for use in the home heating market are commonly...
Pay As You Go… for heating oil customers
Pay As You Go Northern Ireland Minister for social development, Nelson McCausland, has given the go ahead for trials of a new "pay -as-you-go" system for heating oil customers. At present there are pay-as-you-go schemes for both electricity...
Heating oil prices drop due to European Debt Crisis….
Gasoline and heating oil fell for the first time in five days on speculation that the European debt crisis may persist, slowing global economic growth and reducing fuel demand. Futures slipped as the Group of 20 nations...
Fuel Transfer to Iced in City a success !
ANCHORAGE, Alaska—A Russian tanker that went on an ocean odyssey of 5,000 miles to deliver fuel to the iced-in city of Nome was offloading the gasoline and diesel in what officials say is smooth sailing so...
Rural homeowners hit as heating oil thefts up 150%
Rural homeowners are being hit in the pocket twice by criminals as they fork out for replacement heating oil and clean-up costs due to damaged tanks, a leading insurer has revealed. And thieves have become so brazen...
The fight for bio-liquids
The new B30K fuel will be a mix of 30% FAME bio-fuel and 70% kerosene, and can be used on existing oil heating appliances with very few system modifications. It is estimated that carbon emissions from the B30K fuel...
