Oil Burning for Pleasure and Profit
Home of the Babington Oil Burner
Introduction

This page introduces a type of burner which can burn waste oil cleanly and efficiently with no smoke and low emissions.

It can handle a wide range of waste oils including sump oil and waste vegetable oil.

It is easily constructed and creates a lot of heat, cleanly efficiently and safely.

With a bit of ingenuity it could be adapted to provide domestic water heating, , flash steam generation, asa heat source for a Stirling engine or metal smelting furnace.

It could also be retrofitted into a wood burning stove or range and allow dual fuel operation, when wood or other solid fuel is not readily available.

Unlike a wood fired heatsource the Babington burner is controllable and will go out as soon as the oil supply is stopped.

An oil lamp pilot light would allow the unit to be fired up on demand, or the electronic spark ignition from a vehicle or scrapped oil fired furnace could be adapted to ignite the burner.
Sketch by John Archibald explaining how the Babington atomiser works. The air jet acts like a Whale's blow-hole and creates a fine mist of oil spray. Excess oil is returned to a sump for re-use.
There should be no problem in obtaining fuel for the Babington burner as most small restaurants struggle to get rid of their waste cooking oil.

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Here is the 3" diameter hollow brass ball mounted on the 3/8" air pipe and the oil delivery hose (orange) at the front.
General Assembly showing the burner mounted over a drum to catch the excess oil
Head-on shot showing the whitish orange flame within the 6" burner pipe
Side View showing the appearance of the flame at the mouth of the burner tube.
All photos courtesy John Archibald
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Since this page was written 18 months ago there are now some new links to Steve Spence's Webconx site giving  Further Information on the Babington Burner and John Archibald's Constructional Details plus one use for the Babington Burner by the US Marine Corps.