Currently, Chicago's temperatures are such that homeowners don't need heat or air conditioning, but that won't last for long and soon enough, everyone throughout Chicago will be firing up their furnaces and dreading the arrival of this year's heating bills. Yet, one man has found a way to save $3000 a year off his heating costs.
For more than a decade, John Brown has saved $3,000 on his heating bills annually. That’s more than $30,000 in free heat he has pumped into his custom exhaust and pipe bending shop. He is able to save because he uses old motor oil in a Clean Burn furnace.
“I recycle about 15 gallons of used motor oil each day which eliminates the need for me to pay heating bills each winter,” says Brown, owner of John Brown Custom Bent Exhausts in Renfrew, Penn. “My company has been in business for 27 years and one of the best days ever was 15 years ago when I decided to purchase my Clean Burn 350,000 BTU furnace. After just two years, the unit paid for itself and I’ve received free heat ever since.”
Where does his company get the used oil to “fuel” his Clean Burn unit? “I’ve become a green center locally,” says Brown. “Car dealers supply me with their used motor oil, we produce some here, and I even have individuals come in to me with gallon jugs of used motor oil on a daily basis. By recycling all of this oil we’re really helping the environment.”
Brown, who services and sells exhaust systems and mufflers in the greater Butler, Penn. area, has recommended Clean Burn furnaces to other companies locally over the years. “I’m a preacher for recycling used motor oil,” says Brown. “This is the one piece of equipment that, if something happened to my shop, it would be the first item I’d want to replace. For a minimal amount of service time --- just five minutes every few weeks --- this Clean Burn unit has been a work horse at recycling used motor oil. The return-on-investment has been so impressive with this product that I’m always recommending it to other business owners.”
Engineered to burn used motor oils generated by cars, trucks, heavy equipment, boats and other vehicles, Clean Burn furnaces and boilers transform used-oil into free heat. More than 80,000 Clean Burn products located throughout the world burn millions of gallons of used-oils each year on-site, at the point of generation. This volume of used-oil would otherwise be transported on highway systems and pose a considerable risk to spills and/or contamination to the environment.
Clean Burn is an ENERGY STAR® partner. The company holds numerous industry certifications and works with the U.S. government, the Environmental Protection Agency and various associations to help coordinate the establishment of standards and regulations related to heat recovery and recycling efforts involving used motor oils. For more information on Clean Burn, visit www.cleanburn.com or call 1-800-331-0183.
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