Audel HVAC Fundamentals
Volume 2: Heating System Components, Gas and Oil Burners, and Automatic Controls
Chapter One
Oil Burners
An oil burner is a mechanical device used to prepare the oil for
burning in heating appliances such as boilers, furnaces, and water
heaters. The term oil burner is somewhat of a misnomer because
this device does not actually burn the oil. It combines the fuel oil
with the proper amount of air for combustion and delivers it to the
point of ignition, usually in the form of a spray.
The fuel oil is prepared for combustion either by vaporization or
by atomization. These two methods of fuel oil preparation are used
in the three basic types of oil burners employed in commercial,
industrial, and residential heating. The following are the three basic
types of oil burners:
1. Gun-type (atomizing) oil burners.
2. Vaporizing (pot-type) oil burners.
3. Rotary oil burners.
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