Yellow Heat Operation Manual
Copyright 2/21
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Homestead Inc.
PRECAUTIONS AND LIMITATIONS
a.
Yellow Heat should not be used in residential locations, critical use applications, or
locations where guaranteed heat has a financial liability. The UL Label has not been
applied to Yellow Heat Burner.
b.
The Yellow Heat Burner will produce clean heat at a cost far below other options. The
trade-off is that if your heating system involvement is limited to adjusting the thermostat
occasionally, you may not get satisfactory performance out of this innovative system.
Since yellow grease and other waste-oils as fuels can be a variable composition, periodic
attention to operating conditions is required.
c.
Burner maintenance may be required more or less frequently depending on the quality of
the fuel oils used. Especially dirty fuel may require electrode cleaning nearly every day.
d.
Yellow Heat Burner produces between 75,000 BTU’s and 150,000 BTU’s per hour,
depending on model used, appliance conditions, combustion-tuning and fuel type.
e.
Waste oil may contain some foreign materials, including foodstuffs, water and petroleum
contaminants, including gasoline. Therefore, specific precautions on the handling and
storage of waste oils should be observed when collecting, using, storing and cleaning fuel
for this heater. Compliance with waste oils laws is paramount.
f.
The Yellow Heat Burner burns unfiltered oil processed through our
Fuel Storage
System.
All fuels need to be processed through this System.
g.
Yellow Heat may be operated on new or waste oils, and on oils made from petroleum,
animal fats or vegetable oils. Yellow Heat encourages non-petroleum fuels, and
specifically yellow grease, which will be the focus of this Owner’s Manual. Differences in
operating procedure where petroleum oils are used will be pointed out.
h.
Yellow grease yields about 5% less heat than standard petroleum oils per unit volume.
Wet fuel yield less heat than dry fuel. Performance may be affected by the quality of the
waste oils used.
i.
When used as a retrofit burner for existing heating appliances, this burner may not be
appropriate for small fireboxes. Vegetable oil flames tend to be substantially larger than
flames burning heating oil or waste motor oil for a similar heat output.
j.
Some vegetable oil fuels may need enhancing with some more combustible fuel, such as
waste motor oil or heating oil, in order to get satisfactory heat output. Yellow Heat Burner
operates on 100% yellow grease that meets the standard specifications.
k.
To maintain the gravity-return for unburned fuel, the furnace/boiler must be elevated
higher than some conventional heating systems. The burner tube invert (lower edge) must
be higher than the maximum level of the fuel in the storage tank. Failure to follow this