Thermal Efficiency
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The best thermal conduction efficiency in the world.

WOOD STOVE style and function in one, like no other!!

The best thermal conduction efficiency in the world.

 

I am talking about wood burning stoves, and this is why I can make this claim.

 

First law of thermodynamics:

 

Energy (heat) always travels/moves from high to low.

 

To make this work in the real world, the greater the temperature difference the better the heat is conducted.

So we will first look at a conventional stove, and then look at how I have made it light years better.

For a conventional stove with back boiler, one requires a circulating pump with a thermostat, to keep the water in the back boiler as high as possible, the reasons for this is are:

·        Stop build up of tar, ash and carbon on the boiler.

·        Reduce the cold area in the fire, this makes for an inefficient fire. (For proper combustion of wood all the fuel gas should be exposed, at some point to temperature of 1000C or be passed though a CAT. Secondary air dose help, for cleaner burn.)

·        Radiators in the home should be 55C to avoid scolding when lent on. Most homes with fires with back boilers run at about 65C. (Some times even higher!) They do this so that they can run the back boiler as close to boiling point as possible. (See the previous reason for this.)

My fire on the other hand I try to run as cool as possible. From start up at ambient, up to 55C when running.

How can I do this with out incurring the problems above?

·        When starting the fire and heating up the fire box, the fire runs as a normal wood stove with secondary burn.

·        As soon as the bead of ash has been established, it is switched over to the “down burn”, what happens now is the flue gasses as completely burnt (+1000C to 1200C) before they enter the heat exchanger (back boiler).

·        With the flue gas as hot as possible, and the heat exchanger as cool as possible, we can achieve the maximum heat transfer efficiency! The best in the world!

Also realizing the products of combustion are all completely burnt even the tar and creosote. We can now cool the flue gas to the point where we just don’t get condensate in the flue! No other wood stove can be tuned to do this as my unit can!

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