I spent a good portion of yesterday trying to get the fuel oil burner to run on wvo. The principle is easy......heat the oil to near 300 degrees F and it should burn just fine in the standard beckett AFG burner.
The devil is in the details.....
The oil has to be pre-heated before it enters the pump....but if the oil is more than 120 degrees premature pump failure can be expected.
Heating the oil from 120 degrees to about 280 degrees needs to be done from the time the oil leaves the pump before it gets to the nozzle....
I heated the oil with a 110 volt 1,800 watt electric immersion heater after it passed through the pump. I coulnd't get the oil to ignite in the burner......Even tried heating the oil in excess of 400 degrees. Finally i measured the temp of the oil as it actually reaches the nozzle (approximately 10 inches from the point the oil is heated to 400 degrees.)
At the nozzle, the oil was under 200 degrees. UGGGG!
I gave up for the day.....
I did order some of these fancy band heaters to heat the nozzle and tube assembly. Others who run their beckett afg burners on wvo utilize the same heaters.