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-- a a | i ; 5 ' ; , | 22 THE OSHAWA TIMES, Thursday, October 28, 1965 Safety Really Counts Oil Has Big Advantages and it|the contrary, buildings insulated .. then oil offers unique|to the requirements for electri- If safety counts... does . eavaniages io tie apariaicni ofjcai wd Thelstances be heated more econom- building that [ oH it : sat F : i mm -- =aebe: : is And heating oils are completely non-toxic; " imey have inherent fumes dangerous to or plant life. These safe- aecncleeties are distinc- this point necessarily in- wolves more than mere costs of 's delivered.'To be ccnsid- ered for example, are such fac- fors as: 1. Efficiency of operation. is a per centage of the wailable heat units or BTU's hased that are actually re- as heat in the building. « 2, Labor for firing the fuel. * %. Initial cost of a BTU of heating value in the fuel. + 4, Maintenance charges. ' §. Electrical charges for run- ning burner motors, pumps, blowers, etc. , 6. Amortization charges to any difference in the I cost of the equipment. + Of the two major automatic , Oil and gas, there is no er any question that their combustion efficiencies are equivalent and conservatively estimated at 75 per cent. It is true that electric heat is usually given a 100 per cent rating in this category, though the exhor- Ditant costs involved in insulat- yg to heat them elec- } lar outweigh any con- celvable savings in fuel cost. On 2 heating couid in most in- fuels other than labor involved in any of the zi automatic) Ss. As to amortization charges, admittedly higher cost for oil- fired installations is confined to the installation of a storage tank, which justifies itself in the provision. of on-site fuel supply, to a large degree. BTU costs of fuel are prob- ably the deciding point and oil does not claim to be the least expensive fuel in every. sector) of the country. As a general fuel, Canadian fuel economics dictate that the more distant from the well-head gas is de- livered, the cheaper oil can be delivered. Fuel oil delivered by water transportation happens to at those points which are most remote from the sources of gas supply and consequently, oil is most competitive in areas east of Winnipeg and the Lakehead and in B.C,'s Lower Mainland region. But when it gets down to particular cases, the wise com- mercial property owner or build- er will forego the "easy out" of comsulting an architect or con- sulting engineer and go to fuel oil suppliers' technical services staff or to a utility technical people for factual data on com- parative fuel costs. ach can offer the best case-to be made for his particular fuel and basic data from which an intelligent estimate may be deduced. New Products Rre Introduced For its first 50 years or so, the ofl heat industry concen- -|trated pretty much on the «on- vention heating of homes. and other structures, heating water and providing heat fer indus- trial processing. But within just be most accessible in Canada| the past few years, according to' the Oil Hea Association of Canada, the industry has branched out with an adventur- 'ous array of new products, de- signed to serve Mr. and Mrs. Canada in a variety of ways. Some of the more notable oil heat developments: Oil-Powered Air Conditioning -- new equipment, employing the ultra-simple absorption prin- ciple, enabling a home or com- mercial establishment to be heated in winter and cooled in summer by the same unit, us- ing regular home heating fel. Greenhouse Climate Control -- new oil-powered equipment which not only maintains prop- er temperature in a greenhouse, but which also imparts a proper proportion of carbon dioxide to the asmosphere, thus greatly ac- celerating the growth of plants and flowers, Car Wash System -- new oil- powered equipment providing greater volumes of. hot water and steam at lower cost than had been believed possible. Swimming Pool Warming -- oil-powered units which can raise the temperature of pool water, extending the season's pleasure an additional 12 weeks in the Spring and Fall. Snow Melting Unit -- portable oil-powered equipment for the quick and complete elimination of snow from parking lots, driveways, airport runways, etc. Incinerator -- new oil-power- ed unit for quick, convenient, trouble-free refuse disposal. Total Energy Systems -- oil- powered equipment which gen- erates all electrical power, as well as providing heat, air con- ditioning and hot water, which not only offer important opera- tional savings but free develop- ers from the land cost spiral. EEE ee ee corn! Ran Saar eo Sein a Soin i, Lah ef i ona 8 LE PSE SS STS Here's Oil Heat Facts They're Useful, Authentic Some valuable information on the subject of oil heating plants and heating with oil are pre- sented by the Oli Heating Asso- ciation of Canada. These deal with several common aspects of 'oil heating. The basic factors in home heating plant accidents are: (1) the type of fuel burned. (2) the type of heating equip- ment which it is burned in, Heating oil is a relatively safe fuel since it is non-explosive, non-toxic and, in its inert state, non-inflammable. However, heating oil (No, 2 fuel oil) is distinct from other types of oil fuels used in the home -- and it is particularly different in the type of equip- ment in which it is burned. 'HEATING OIL, OILHEATING' Heating oi] (No. 2 fuel oil) is always burned in a central heating plant consisting of auto- matic equipment regulated by electric controls. This is the type of heating installed in the majority of oil homes and par- ticularly in the northern half of the country where full heating is required. It is the type com- monly understood when the term "oilheating" is used | EQUIPMENT USED | Central oilheating has high) relative -safety. The following! summarizes the technical rea-) sons for this: Central oilheating consists of an automatically operated heat- ing plant with three full groups of electric controls. It manufactures heat by atom- izing liquid fuel oil -- breaking it up into particles and then mixing it with air -- within a completely enclosed metal fire chamber. This is lined with fire- brick or similar material. Combustion occurs only when the balanced oil-air mixture is ignited by a controlled electric spark, This regulated heat in the fire chamber is transferred through special surfaces (never by @ KITCHENS BE MODERN LIVE BETTER ELECTRICALLY ! EXPERT Complete HOME HEAT and for Supplementary Heat @ ATTIC ROOMS ASK FOR FULL DETAILS COMFORT © CONVENIENCE CLEANLINESS ROOMS © BASEMENT ' . ae BEDROOMS © HALL ® RECREATION © OFFICES ROOMS PRINCE ST. OSHAWA 728-4611 AUTOMATIC Electroheat is stat in every ature of each endently from Electroheat ineering skill be removed . - <a. © .. is the only Heating System GOOD Enough For Your Family WHEN REPLACING YOUR OLD HEATING SYSTEM ... OR MOVING INTO A NEW SYSTEM ... INSIST ON THE BEST! fuel to order or store. Nothing is required beyond the touch of a finger to the con- venient thermostat. There is a thermo- to spring your home is kept at an even healthful temperature coldest winter. BEAUTY convectors ore the most beoutiful and efficient that modern eng- streamlined, compact and made for yeors of trouble-free service CLEANLINESS Electro heat is clean! There ore no clinkers or ashes to no smoke, soot or dirt of any kind. The basement remains as clean os a new pin and may be fuly utilized for any household purpose becouse there Is actually no furnace to contend with. Your electroheat is built right into the walls of your rooms WITH completely automatic. No room so that the temper- room is controlled indep- the other rooms. From fall throughout the SO ECONOMICAL, too! can design. They ore aoe direct contact) to one of three ltransfer or heat-carrying medi- ums. The three are warm air, hot waier or sieam -- they carny the heat via enclosed of|ducts or pipes throughout the house The heating oil (No. 2 fuel oil) is stored in a large, heavy- guage steel tank located com- pletely separate from the burn- er. The oil is fed from this through piping to the burner, always under full regulation of the electric controls which shut it off at any time there is a malfunction, THE CONTROLS In automatic oflheating there are three interchecking electric controls: 1. The thermostat which is a thermometer equipped to send i angers & Poe hap erry oe aD 8 eaten trol is backed up by the stack- switch mounted on the stack -- which will also close down oper- ations if the flow of combustion gases to the outside is too hot or too cold, 3. The third electric control is the limit control which holds within safe limits the pressures or the temperatures within the system which. distribujes tie heat, All these controls back each other up, so that if one the next takes over, In central oil heating there is never any manual operation, All adjust- ment and servicing are carried on by. professional servicemen, PRINCIPAL FACTS The principal facts about the safety of heating oil (No. 2 fuel oil) are: It is non-inflammable in its norma] state. 1, No, 2 fuel oil is a refined and stable petroleum fuel which is virtually non-inflammable in its inert state. Its fire point -- the temperature at which it can tually catch fire -- is between an electrical to the ms plant to turn it on or off 2. The basic combustion con- trol sees that this message is executed only if there is the proper mixture of atomized oil and proper ignition, It will halt the burner temporarily or lock it off on "safety" if all condi- 140 and 150 degrees Fahrenheit. (This should not be confused with "flash point," the technical temperature at which there is partial vaporization and at times flashing. No. 2 fuel oil will not catch fire for 20 to 30 degrees above its 'flash point."') As stored in the home tions are _not } right. This con- and until atomized under con- je eninypemar= trols in the insulated fire cham- ber, unless exposed to extreme and unlikely conditions, heating oil will not burn, A lighted match can be dipped into a con- tainer of it and the match will be snuffed out. Spontaneous combustion also is unknown with heating oil. 2. It is even more unlikely that a irue explosion in home heating can be caused by heat- ing oil burned in automatic cen- Be fled in which it is burned are such that a central oil heating plant accident, even if it occur, will rarely set fire to a house and will not dents, can occur, but serious in- jury or major damage are high- ly infrequent. In addition te its relative Safety, central oilheating is the only home heating system havy- ing an emergency _ electric switch which allows the home fully 'and immediately to} co) shutoff all operation. nsuming gaseous prod ucts almost instantly and hay- ing great force. No fuel can ex- plode until it has been com- pletely or largely vaporized into! a gas. Large quantities of vaporized heating oil mixed in just the right proportions with air and touched off by an open' flame - constitute a situation ROCK MEANS SILVER LONDON (CP) --The long- hair cult among British youths has not hurt the hairdressing business, reports the board of trade. Profits for August were cause an explosion. Minor acct-lthan |China Specialists Work In Burma RANGOON (Reuters) -- More 300 Chinese 5) technicians and are working in Burma on eight of i darelonaed projects under> taken witi a $34,000,000 interest- free loan from Comm China, The loan provides for oe in the form of goods and the vices of Chinese technicians. ft will be used for the con- struction of hydro - electric plants, plywood factories, and ie ee and textile mills, is already under way, bong some cases nea' completion, on two hydroelec- tric plants, two bridges, a tex+ tile mill, a paper mill, a sugat up four per cent. mill and a > factory. which just doesn't occur in oper. ation of an automatic central heating system. There has vir- tually neyer been a true explo- sion of heating oil in an auto- matic home heating plant, nor has there been with heating oil stored or piped outside the plant in the home. 3. Heating oil is completely non-toxic -- it has no inherent fumes dangerous to health. 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