Don't Take Our Word For It

As part of The Burner Booster’s development, the system was tested at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute’s fire lab—where it achieved energy savings in one test of just over 50%. Following that success, The Burner Booster was tested by a known burner manufacturer and was found, once again, to produce extraordinary results.

In 2010, The Burner Booster was installed in over a dozen demonstration projects in Massachusetts and New Hampshire to prove that it achieved what we knew it could and to provide the real-life operating setting we needed to fine tune our product. All sites, but one (14.5%), showed oil savings of up to 35%.

CK Environmental, a nationally-recognized environmental testing company was hired to test The Burner Booster’s emissions and to double-check the air quality measurements recorded in EES’s own tests. The results of those tests vary from site to site, but all show savings in the 20%-70% range, depending on the type of flue gas being measured (details of air quality tests can be seen at our section of the Environment).

Massachusetts Demonstration Sites (oil savings calculated with degree days)

Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Department of Corrections, MCI Plymouth, Dorm C, Hot Water (30.5% oil savings)
Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Department of Corrections, MCI Plymouth, Dorm C, Central Heating System (31.7% 2-year average)
Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Department of Youth Services, Metro Youth Service Center, Dorchester, MA (28.6% 2-year average)
Town of Needham, Public Facilities Department, Central Maintenance Facility (31% 2-year average)
Andover Newton Theological School, Central Heating Plant, Newton, MA (14.7%)
The Paint Project, retail/sales/distribution facility, Medfield, MA (34%)
Corona Film, Inc., industrial process manufacturer, West Townsend, MA (23% 2-year average)
Private homes in Newton and Natick (22%-31% 2-year average)

New Hampshire Demonstration Sites (oil savings calculated with degree days)

City of Manchester, Waste Water Treatment facility, Manchester, NH (31% 2-year average)
Villa Augustina School, 400-student school, Goffstown, NH (30.5% 2-year average)
New England Easter Seals Headquarters, Manchester, NH (31.5% 2-year average)
Private home in Dover, NH, since 2008, (31.8% 4-year average)

In developing the demonstration project, a special shout-out goes to the Massachusetts Division of Capital Resource Management for their outstanding assistance, along with the MA Department of Corrections, in installing The Burner Booster in MCI Plymouth, and with the MA Department of Health and Human Services, in installing The Burner Booster in the MetroYouth Facility in Dorchester, MA. Also deserving credit for the courage of stepping up to try The Burner Booster are the Town of Needham, MA (DPW maintenance center) and the City of Manchester, NH (waste water treatment facility).

Demonstration Sites Emission Reductions

Owner/Operator Comments

State of Massachusetts Correctional Building - MCI Plymouth

MCI Plymouth "…due to performance and 30% oil savings resulting from the installation of The Burner Booster on the hot water system at (C Dorm) MCI Plymouth, the (MA) Department of Corrections would like to expand the Burner Booster Pilot Program to include the heating system of C Dorm."

The Paint Project Shop Inc. - Medfield, MA

Bob Zaffino - "The Burner Booster has allowed us to cut our oil bill by 1,600 gallons---over $4,000 a year. We don't smell the heating system anymore, we have more even heat, and the savings speak for themselves."

Ray Brooks - Dover, NH

Ray Brooks - "I have not had one call in the last three years, and always had 2-3 emergency service calls per year before. The heat comes up faster and I'm getting heat in two rooms that I didn't have before."

Town of Needham MA - Maintenance Facility Building - Needham, MA

Chip Laffey, Director of Facilities Operation - "… so far, to date, The Burner Booster has saved the Town of Needham 646 gallons of fuel oil, and at Needham's contract price for oil, this savings equates to $1,680. Additionally there are other cost savings that the Town will incur when it comes time to do the annual maintenance on the pilot program boiler. With the Burner Booster, the boiler flame burns hotter and cleaner, thus reducing the amount of time required to perform annual maintenance. With the hotter and cleaner flame, naturally we have a large reduction in emissions being released into the environment. When the Burner Booster gets UL listing, the Town of Needham would be willing to install the Burner Booster in a number of our larger facilities where oil consumption rates are as large as 20-30 gph. With the installation of the Burner Booster in the large facilities, the Town would be able to see reduced costs in oil consumption, maintenance, and emissions."

Easter Seals Main Headquarters - Manchester, NH

Tom Farrell, Director of Facilities, NH Easter Seals - "Since the Burner Booster was installed a few months ago we have been getting our oil delivered less frequently and have noticed that our boiler is running much more efficient then it has in the pass. Being a nonprofit agency we are always looking for ways to save money and it looks as though we should be able to save a fair amount of money heat our 62,000 square foot building."

Thomas McColl - Needham, MA

Tom McColl - "Since the system was installed on October 21, 2010, when considering the very cold winter we've had, we've calculated (our hot water summer use) oil savings of 25%, or about $725.00 (at $3.00 per gallon). This exceeded my expectations! The two year winter results are pointing to 30% when calculating heating degree.

I think the Burner Booster lines up perfectly with President Obama's goal of reducing heating oil consumption by 20 percent."