[Greenbuilding] oil burners

[George J. Nesbitt]

The Energy Star website has directories of qualified products.
There are several oil forced air furnaces with AFUE's of 95%.
For a 40KBtu 2 stage with ECM 96% natural gas I would pay $1400 + tax.
You probably have Biodiesel available to you in 15% and 85% mixes.
The greenest thing is to do every thing you can to reduce your load.
Be sure to do a Manual J load calculation so you don't oversize the unit.
Do a Manual D & T to make sure the ducts are adequate.
Tighten the ducts and test to verify <6% leakage.
Could you put in a hydronic air handler/fan coil and run it off your 
water heater?
And upgrade the water heater now, or later?


Clarke Olsen wrote:

>Hardly green, I know, but I'm in the position of needing to replace an 
>oil fired hot air unit.
>Does anyone have a source for finding the most efficient models?
>Clarke Olsen
>Spencertown, NY
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