An Alternative Fuel for Your Home Heating...

SeaPort Biofuels is pleased to offer supply of blended Biodiesel to Home Heating Oil companies interested in selling BioHeat; quiet, clean, efficient, and with less emissions than regular home heating oil. This blend is known as BioHeat, and SeaPort Biofuels BioHeat is ASTM certified for quality assurance and is locally refined right here in Seattle by Seattle Biodiesel.

In addition to keeping your home warm and comfortable in the winter months, you will: 

• benefit the environment

• lessen our dependency on foreign oil by and

• support our nation’s farmers.

 You can use our home heating BioHeat biodiesel without any modifications or changes to your heating oil system or tank. It is readily mixable with your existing oil so you can switch “on the fly” with no down time or added expense.

Cold Weather Facts

BioHeat has similar cold weather properties as the heating oil it is made from. If cold weather handling and usage are a concern with regular home heating oil, they will be a concern with BioHeat (e.g. above-ground tanks with exposed lines). 

BioHeat may increase the cold flow properties approximately 2-5 degrees Fahrenheit from the base heating oil it is blended with. Cold flow properties can be enhanced by implementing the same solutions used with heating oil: wrapping exposed lines with heat tape, use pour point depressants, or plan your storage accordingly utilizing inside protection or tank heating elements.

Once blended, the biodiesel in BioHeat goes completely into solution with heating oil and does not come out of solution and will not separate.

BioHeat as a Cleaning Agent

BioHeat contains biodiesel. Biodiesel provides a cleaning effect and does have a tendency to dissolve or loosen some sediment that can be deposited in tanks and fuel systems from years of conventional diesel fuel or home heating oil use. It is recommended that you change the burner filter.

In numerous field tests with on-road diesel fuel using B20, the incidence of initial filter clogging was about 2%. In these cases, after the system was cleaned of the years of deposits left by petroleum diesel fuel the incidence of filter clogging went back to normal. 

B100 Biodiesel as Heating Fuel

Biodiesel in its pure form can be used as heating fuel however, compatibility will depend on the materials (metals, plastics, and rubber parts) in your tanks, pumps and fuel lines. For blends higher than 20% biodiesel only steel, mild steel, stainless steel, aluminum, fluorinated polyethylene fluorinated polypropylene and fiberglass vessels are recommended. Use of tanks or lines made of brass, bronze, and copper or lead, tin, and zinc (i.e. galvanized) may cause high sediment formation and filter clogging and are not recommended.

SeaPort Biofuels can deliver B100, B99 or any blend in  Bulk, 275-gallon totes, and 55-gallon drums or if you have your own trucks we can give bulk truck pricing. Please call Randall Thomas at 206-971-7999 for more information on B100.

B99 Biodiesel versus B100

In order to encourage the purchase of Biodiesel, the Federal Government instituted a 1 cent per percent Biodiesel tax credit, up to a blend of B99.  SeaPort Biofuels encourages the use of B99 in order for our customers to maximize the tax benefit and we pass the entire tax credit through to the customer at the time of sale.  This tax credit is also passed through in all blends  such as B20, B50, B75 and B99.  For more information on the tax credit, please view the link here: Biodiesel Tax Credit

B20 BioHeat Home Delivery Information

To purchase SeaPort Biofuels BioHeat, please call 206-971-7999. Please note there is a 200-gallon minimum delivery.