water stoves and boilers.............................
Adding to what Keith has said from my perspective
as someone who has examined water stoves and
decided they waste too much fuel for the money involved:
.
Why dont manufacuters use more firebrick and more
water to create a huge thermal mass and solve all the
issues about particulates by having a firebox half filled
with good fire brick to aid in burning?
I would seriously consider a water stove that is fully insulated and
has a thousand or two thousand gallons of water and a fire box that was
24 by 24 by 24 and filled half full with firebrick and a piece of
channel iron covering the coal grates making it 12 by 24 by 24
making the grates exposed square area to 288 square inches
to increase combustion air without a forced or induced draft.
My 12 by 24 by 36 inch firebox is half full of fire brick and I have little
to no smoke with a wood and coal boiler that is 30 years old next year.
Yes I have lost half the volume of my 24 inch deep firebox
but the near zero smoke is something I can live with for
sure as I have too large a chimney which is an exposed 8 by 12
tile lined 16 footer.
Once you show people how easy it to heat this amount of water quickly
you would have a lot of interested customers with cash in hand.
Adding to what Keith has said from my perspective
as someone who has examined water stoves and
decided they waste too much fuel for the money involved:
.
Why dont manufacuters use more firebrick and more
water to create a huge thermal mass and solve all the
issues about particulates by having a firebox half filled
with good fire brick to aid in burning?
I would seriously consider a water stove that is fully insulated and
has a thousand or two thousand gallons of water and a fire box that was
24 by 24 by 24 and filled half full with firebrick and a piece of
channel iron covering the coal grates making it 12 by 24 by 24
making the grates exposed square area to 288 square inches
to increase combustion air without a forced or induced draft.
My 12 by 24 by 36 inch firebox is half full of fire brick and I have little
to no smoke with a wood and coal boiler that is 30 years old next year.
Yes I have lost half the volume of my 24 inch deep firebox
but the near zero smoke is something I can live with for
sure as I have too large a chimney which is an exposed 8 by 12
tile lined 16 footer.
Once you show people how easy it to heat this amount of water quickly
you would have a lot of interested customers with cash in hand.
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