Home Heating with Biodiesel @ Albina

Biodiesel to Heat Your Home

An Alternative Fuel for Your Home Heating...

Albina Fuel is pleased to offer home delivery of B20 blend Biodiesel; quiet, clean, efficient, and with less emissions than regular home heating oil. This blend is known as BioHeat, and Albina Fuel's BioHeat is ASTM rated for quality assurance.

In addition to keeping your home warm and comfortable in the winter months, you'll be

• benefitting the environment

• lessening our dependency on foreign oil by 20% and

• supporting our nation’s farmers.

You can use our home heating BioHeat biodiesel without any modifications or changes to your heating oil system or tank. It is readily mixable with your existing oil so you can switch “on the fly” with no down time or added expense.

Cold Weather Facts

BioHeat has similar cold weather properties as the heating oil it is made from. If cold weather handling and usage are a concern with regular home heating oil, they will be a concern with BioHeat (e.g. above-ground tanks with exposed lines).

BioHeat may increase the cold flow properties approximately 2-5 degrees Fahrenheit from the base heating oil it is blended with. Cold flow properties can be enhanced by implementing the same solutions used with heating oil: wrapping exposed lines with heat tape, use pour point depressants, or plan your storage accordingly utilizing inside protection or tank heating elements.

Once blended, the biodiesel in BioHeat goes completely into solution with heating oil and does not come out of solution and will not separate.

BioHeat as a Cleaning Agent

BioHeat contains biodiesel. Biodiesel provides a cleaning effect and does have a tendency to dissolve or loosen some sediment that can be deposited in tanks and fuel systems from years of conventional diesel fuel or home heating oil use. In some instances the burner filter may have to be changed.

In numerous field tests with on-road diesel fuel using B20, the incidence of initial filter clogging was about 2%. In these cases, after the system was cleaned of the years of deposits left by petroleum diesel fuel the incidence of filter clogging went back to normal.

B100 Biodiesel as Heating Fuel

Biodiesel in its pure form can be used as heating fuel, however, compatibility will depend on the materials (metals, plastics, and rubber parts) in your tanks, pumps and fuel lines. For blends higher than 20% biodiesel only steel, mild steel, stainless steel, aluminum, fluorinated polyethylene fluorinated polypropylene and fiberglass vessels are recommended. Use of tanks or lines made of brass, bronze, and copper or lead, tin, and zinc (i.e. galvanized) may cause high sediment formation and filter clogging and are not recommended.

Albina Fuel can deliver B100 in 55-gallon drums. Please call Dan Quitugua at 503-819-8374 for more information on B100.

B20 BioHeat Home Delivery Information

For home delivery of B20 BioHeat, please call 503-281-1161. Please note there is a 200-gallon minimum delivery.

To learn more about biodiesel, visit our Biodiesel page, or call or email Dan Quitugua at 503-819-8374 or 800-888-5048.

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