Is anyone using biodiesel in keosene heater or oil burning furnaces successfully?

Question

Is anyone using biodiesel in keosene heater or oil burning furnaces successfully?

Answer 1

Do NOT use biodiesel in a kerosene heater. Kero is lighter than fuel oil. If you want to burn veggie oil in a hurricane lantern, that might work.

biodiesel in a regular oil furnace should be OK. But I would ask the furnace manufacturer, and keep many spare filters on hand.

Answer 2

I have been using it in my furnace for three winters. it can be used anywhere you can use number 2 fuel oil. if the heater needs kerosene it will not work. Do not use straight vegetable oil in your furnace. It will clog the nozzle in a few hours. Treat the oil with lye and methanol to make it into biodiesel. Your furnace will run cleaner and more efficiently than with petroleum fuel.

Answer 3

Not during this global warming period