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February 03, 2006

Ever want to build a furnace?

My freind Russ is building a waste oil burning furnace.

The concept is pretty cool. It uses a Babington Ball to vaporize the oil so that it can be burned. Basicailly they pour oil onto the top of a metal ball, the oil turns into a film as it flows around the ball. The ball has a microscopic hole in it that is leaking 10 Psi air through it. The wind evaporates this film and creates a burnable oil/air mixture. The rest of the oil drains into resevior, and is then pumped repeatedly until it encouters the microscopic hole and is burnt off.

I set up a blog for Russ to describe his project, and he seems enthusiastic about blogging, so watch and learn!

Russ's Babington Ball furnace bloghttp://www.chaotic.info/russb/

Posted by reighley at February 3, 2006 04:19 AM

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