Excess Air is a waste of money . . .

That's why -weishaupt- designs burners to use as little as possible

For safety sake a fuel burner must mix enough oxygen molecules from the air with fuel molecules so that all of the fuel is burned. Safety codes require a minimum amount of extra, or excess air to insure that barometric changes do no yield insufficient air for complete combustion.

BUT, if more than the minimum amount of excess air is used then fuel is wasted. Part of the fuel energy is used to heat the excessive excess air!

The quality of the burner's mixing head is the key. Lower quality heads need excessive excess air to insure good mixing of fuel and air. -weishaupt- researchers have developed high quality heads so that LOW amounts of excess air are needed.

This graph shows the effect of excessive excess air. Operating costs are significantly reduced with -weishaupt- burners' low excess air requirements.

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Last modified: 05/04/04