I have a 55,000 btu heater(i think). It accepts like 6 different type of fuels. I was wanting to se how clean each fuel burned. Maybe the wideband a/f meter would work?

 

Each fuel requires a different A/F ratio. So unless you know what each one requires. I know Nat Gas and Propane require different amounts of air. You have to change the "jets" out when switching a heater to get max efficiency I guess.

They make gas meters for checking furnace exhausts. Check Grainger's site.

 

there is no adjustments for different fuels. You just put em in and go. it takes diesel 1 or 2, fuel oil 1 or 2 ,jp8 ans a couple of others. I would bet one of em burn cleaner.

 

i have been burnbing field corn grade 3 for years. i often wondered if the air dampner was adjusted correctly in my model 1010 high efficiency corn dogger. thank you innovate !! i will report next week on damper settings as soon as i get the pipes unfrozen to the house. -30 below here in hurley wis!

 

From experience I can tell you the JP-8 runs hotter and cleaner than the kerosene in the space heaters like the alladin blue flame.

 

where to get JP-8???

 

Hehehe...see your local recruiter.

Used to be, we ran the M1 tanks on JP-4 (jet fuel), and pretty much all the other ground equipment burned No.2 Diesel. Helicopters and I think most jet aircraft were also using JP-4. Back about 1996 or so, both fuels were replaced by JP-8. It's less volitile than JP-4, so there's less chance of explosion in a crash or from enemy fire. Also from the Army side, it was a lot easier on us to only have to supply one type of fuel for the ground forces.

I don't know if civilian aircraft are currently using JP-8 or not. It would make a lot of sense from the standpoint of crash survivability. I suspect you could make a phone call to the fuel point at your local airport and find out.

When we first started running Diesel engines on JP-8, we had all sorts of problems with injector pumps -- seems that the cleaner-running JP8 fuel was breaking loose all the crud that had accumulated over the years of running Diesel fuel. We rebuilt a bunch of injector pumps, and replaced about a zillion fuel filters during the first year or so, but eventually the problem worked itself out.

Anyway, that's your military fuel trivia for the day.

 

The heater has no adjustments for different types of fuel. That is why I want to test the effects of each type. I would imagine it would take only a few seconds to get a reading. So damage would seem unlikely. Would it work?

 

Is this a really dumb question or what??

 

I'm just going to try it. Don't know if it'll work but oh well...