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Old 09-05-2019, 03:11 PM
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Home heating oil is generally high sulfur, mix that with water from the combustion process and you get sulfuric acid. This acid build up is why high efficiency / condensing oil furnaces are virtually non existent.
I guess you'd need a ceramic or glass condensing section installed that can trap the acid and drain it safely away.
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