After a recent discussion with our home heating oil provider, seeing this post got me thinking - could a similar system be applied to the exhaust of a household furnace that is burning No. 2 heating oil?
A typical household in my part of the country runs around 1000 gallons of oil per year (which I realize is less than 10% of a typical long-haul truck annual usage) but for larger sites like greenhouses/breweries/etc that have both heating and CO2 needs, I could see there being significant gains to having an on-site capture system.
Even at the household side, it would be great to capture this tailpipe waste as a marketable resource... with the benefits of grid power and less concern over the size of storage/compression/regen equipment, I could imagine that the break-even point might be favorable.
A typical household in my part of the country runs around 1000 gallons of oil per year (which I realize is less than 10% of a typical long-haul truck annual usage) but for larger sites like greenhouses/breweries/etc that have both heating and CO2 needs, I could see there being significant gains to having an on-site capture system.
Even at the household side, it would be great to capture this tailpipe waste as a marketable resource... with the benefits of grid power and less concern over the size of storage/compression/regen equipment, I could imagine that the break-even point might be favorable.