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Improving Out door wood stove efficiency
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Re: Improving Out door wood stove efficiency
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by richhagen (
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Heat transfer occurrs by conduction, convection, and radiation. For an outdoor wood furnace you need to limit all of those losses to the environment at the outdoor furnace, and through the tubing uses to transfer the working fluid into the house. For an inside furnace, those losses still end up as heat in your house and are no big deal. For an outdoor furnace you would need well insulated tubing, and thick insulation around your fire box to minimize the heat transfer to the outside environment. A counter flow air to air heat exchanger for incoming and exhaust air from the firebox to minimize convective losses out the stack. You still won't likely beat an inside wood stove for efficiency, since the only losses there are the convective losses out the stack, but it might be worth it for the safety of not having a fire inside in some cases (at least from your insurers point of view).
'A Joule saved is a Joule made'
Re: Improving Out door wood stove efficiency
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by mikey ny on Mon Jun 27th, 2005 at 04:43:57 PM MST
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Hello,
I have an out door boiler in my detached garage. I have many improvements to make to it this year. The first thing I will do is put in a better chimny, maybee a 6 inch steel pipe, make a heat exchanger around it and pipeit into the combustion air intake, because most of the time it sucks in very cold outside air for combustion air.
Mike
Mr. Mikey... "I thought I made a mistake but I was wrong"
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