Burner for Unprocessed Oils

Abstract

A system and techniques for oil combustion are provided. The system includes a storage container for separating one or more contaminants from strained oil via gravity separation to produce segregated oil; an oil uptake channel for entraining a layer of the segregated oil from the storage container; a fuel regulator for controlling rate of flow of the segregated oil from the storage container as an input stream to a burner head via the oil uptake channel, wherein the fuel regulator comprises a pump motor speed control; and a burner head control for repositioning a burner head under the segregated oil input stream to produce a controllable amount of heat output.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . An oil combustion system, comprising:
 a storage container for separating one or more contaminants from strained oil via gravity separation to produce segregated oil;   an oil uptake channel for entraining a layer of the segregated oil from the storage container;   a fuel regulator for controlling rate of flow of the segregated oil from the storage container as an input stream to a burner head via the oil uptake channel, wherein the fuel regulator comprises a pump motor speed control; and   a burner head control for repositioning a burner head under the segregated oil input stream to produce a controllable amount of heat output.   
     
     
         2 . The system of  claim 1 , further comprising:
 an interface for monitoring and/or directing operation of the system.   
     
     
         3 . The system of  claim 1 , wherein the oil comprises vegetable oil. 
     
     
         4 . The system of  claim 1 , wherein the oil uptake channel for entraining a layer of the segregated oil from the storage container uptakes a topmost layer of oil from the storage container without entraining one or more lower layers of oil from the storage container. 
     
     
         5 . The system of  claim 1 , further comprising:
 a floating draw-off for removing decontaminated oil after one or more contaminants are removed.   
     
     
         6 . The system of  claim 1 , wherein the fuel regulator comprises a flow channel. 
     
     
         7 . The system of  claim 1 , wherein the fuel regulator controls rate of flow of the oil to the burner head without a constriction subject to clogging with debris. 
     
     
         8 . The system of  claim 7 , wherein the fuel regulator controls viscosity of the oil via a regulated thermal input system. 
     
     
         9 . The system of  claim 1 , wherein heat output is controlled by repositioning the burner head under the segregated oil input stream where a laminar flow over a surface of the burner head is of greater or lesser thickness as it flows over a pressurized air jet stream emanating from the burner head. 
     
     
         10 . The system of  claim 9 , wherein the thickness of the laminar flow over the surface of the burner head is based on at least one of user preference and a setting to tune the heat output to an appliance capacity. 
     
     
         11 . The system of  claim 1 , wherein the burner head control facilitates a greater or smaller amount of oil film to be atomized by a pressurized air jet stream. 
     
     
         12 . A method for performing oil combustion, comprising the steps of:
 separating one or more contaminants from strained oil to produce segregated layers of oil;   selectively drawing one or more segregated layers of the oil;   entraining the drawn oil to a burner for combustion; and   regulating flow rate of the oil being entrained to the burner to produce a controllable amount of heat output, wherein said regulating comprises implementing a pump motor speed control.   
     
     
         13 . The method of  claim 12 , comprising:
 monitoring and/or directing operation of the oil combustion via an interface.   
     
     
         14 . The method of  claim 12 , wherein the oil comprises vegetable oil. 
     
     
         15 . The method of  claim 12 , wherein separating one or more contaminants from the strained oil comprises facilitating gravity separation of one or more contaminants from the strained oil. 
     
     
         16 . The method of  claim 12 , further comprising:
 facilitating open-channel flow of the oil without restriction subject to clogging by debris.   
     
     
         17 . The method of  claim 12 , further comprising:
 regulating the oil for viscosity control.   
     
     
         18 . The method of  claim 12 , wherein selectively drawing one or more segregated layers of the oil comprises drawing a topmost layer of oil from the segregated layers of oil without drawing one or more lower layers of oil that contain a larger percentage of contaminants. 
     
     
         19 . The method of  claim 12 , wherein regulating flow rate of the oil being entrained to the burner to produce a controllable amount of heat output comprises controlling positioning of the burner head under a fuel input stream. 
     
     
         20 . The method of  claim 12 , further comprising:
 straining the oil.