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The burner is a crucial piece of every oil or gas heating system, as it supplies the energy needed to provide automatic comfort to a residence or commercial space. The burner is attached to a heating appliance, water heater, or boiler to heat air or water. However, while these basic functions are the same across both oil and gas burners, there are several distinct differences between the two in terms of how they function and how their designs came to be. In this guide, we'll give you a high-level overview of oil and gas burners, their main functions, and how their designs changed over time in order to adapt to the changing demands of heating systems and customers.

While older oil burners and oil appliances sometimes experienced a wide range of safety and efficiency issues, many advances have been made in more recent years to ensure that today's burners operate with peak performance. This includes improvements to both the design and engineering of oil burner systems as well as education and training for modern technicians. In this post, we will discuss oil burner safety and efficiency today as well as the advancements that made possible modern oil heat as we know it.

As heating and combustion technology developed over the years, oil burner innovations have made today's system safer and more efficient than ever before. From the first oil burners until now, technological and engineering advances both big and small have improved oil burner performance in ways that benefit the customer as well as the service technician.

A modern oil burner performs an incredibly important function within the heating system: it provides the energy that allows the rest of the system to operate. However, in order for the burner to ensure that the system run efficiently and reliably, it needs a good source of three main components: fuel, air, and heat. When an oil technician makes adjustments to the burner and these components are kept in the right balance for proper operation, an oil burner can continue to provide reliable, clean energy to the heating system.