ever seen a setup like this?

Andy From Sligo

Have you ever seen a setup like this where the oil tank is Lower than the oil boiler? this is what its like at our gaff - I always thought it had to work on a gravity principle , IE where the tank is higher than the boiler so that the oil flowed down to the boiler?

The boiler works OK as it should but wouldnt the oil pump in the boiler have to work that much harder than it should because the oil is floating away from the boiler?

I done a diagram to show what our system is like:

BrokenArrows

You get gravity and pump based systems.
Since your system is working then you must have a pump.

Andy From Sligo

BrokenArrows wrote: »

You get gravity and pump based systems.
Since your system is working then you must have a pump.

theres a Riello Oil pump in the boiler - is that the pump you mean? - cannot find any other pump - the (white plastic coated) copper oil pipe goes under the grass and then under the pavement , to a tigerloop just outside the boiler module

mickdw

With the tiger loop, the tank doesnt need to be elevated.

jimf

as mick said

oh and andy you cant take the tigerloop to pieces to see how it works

thanks bit of jaysus there a sealed unit

Andy From Sligo

mickdw wrote: »

With the tiger loop, the tank doesnt need to be elevated.

ah right thanks, i thought tigerloop was just to bleed air in oil

Andy From Sligo

jimf wrote: »

as mick said

oh and andy you cant take the tigerloop to pieces to see how it works

thanks bit of jaysus there a sealed unit

oooh , i dont know -- I wouldnt put anything past my curious mind

DGOBS

Oil burner pump is designed to pump vertically 4.5m (or was is 5?) and would require a deareator, other than that it's fine.

For instances where your above the duty of the pump, you would install an oil lifter.

To test the duty on the pump for the lift, you would use a vacuum gauge at the pump vacuum test point.

Andy From Sligo

Its all fascinating , I've only ever seen installations whereby the tank is always higher than the boiler so that the oil runs towards the boiler rather than away from it.

So this tigerloop, is it just an airiator or is it a device that also seperates water from the kerosene as well as bleeding air in the kerosene before it reaches the boiler or is there a seperate device on the market that seperates water from the kerosene if water happens to be in it?

Karangue

When all your friends when you were younger were figuring how girls worked what were you trying to figure out?

Andy From Sligo

Karangue wrote: »

When all your friends when you were younger were figuring how girls worked what were you trying to figure out?

most probably how oil boilers and shtuff like that work