Fred M. Schildwachter & Sons Bioheat In the News!

David Schildwachter of Fred M. Schildwachter & Sons Fuel Oil in The Bronx, New York City, has been a bioheat believer for quite some time. "Since November 2002," he eagerly reports. As a large biodiesel supplier - in addition to their role as home heating service provider - Schildwachter Fuel Oil was afforded early exposure to the coming "revolution." Even with clients as big as the USPS, Con Edison (local utility) and the U.S. Military (not to mention his own company's extensive fleet of trucks) there wasn't a single complaint. "Zero!" he states emphatically.

With this history instructing them, Schildwachter Fuel Oil had no hesitation about making the jump into the home heating end of the business with . "Of course, once the federal excise tax credit was approved with the new Energy Bill (August, 2005), it was a no-brainer ... bioheat would cost essentially the same at the wholesale level as traditional home heating oil." Though Schildwachter Fuel Oil has, among many thousands, just 100 residential bioheat customers now, in the Winter of 2005-2006, David Schildwachter sees rapid growth ahead...perhaps as much as a tenfold increase in bioheat-stoked homeowners by the Spring of 2007. A handsome company website page devoted to bioheat may help towards that end.

Brookhaven National Laboratory Tests Prove B20 Requires No Equipment Alterations

You may be wondering whether "going green" with Schildwachter's B20 Bioheat blend means adjusting your heating system to accommodate this alternative fuel.

Brookhaven National Laboratory

Heating equipment manufacturers have wondered about the same thing. Which is why we thought we would share the highlights of a report* the Oilheat researchers at Brookhaven National Laboratories prepared for Underwriters Laboratories (UL), in order for UL to approve certain manufacturers' heating equipment utilizing biofuels. The report stated ...

• Differences in specific gravities, viscosities and heating values between various blends of biodiesel and #2 heating oil (home heating oil) combine to ensure more or less the same thermal (heat) input rate without any changes to the settings.
• Performance in heating equipment would also be similar with a B20 blend.
• Levels of NOx (Nitrogen Oxides) are actually less with Bioheat than with #2 heating oil. NOx is the generic term for a group of highly reactive gases containing nitrogen and oxygen in varying amounts, that play a major role in the formation of environmental hazards like ozone, particulate matter (smoke and soot), haze, and acid rain.
• B20 ignites and lights off just as easily as #2 fuel oil.

The report's conclusion: B20 can be used in an oil burner just like #2 oil without any changes. Comparative readings, long-term duration tests as well as cold oil tests are almost identical to #2 oil.

What does this mean to you? No burner modification is required when you order from Schildwachter. It's basically the same as the #2 heating oil you've always ordered from us ... only a lot better!

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