[TheForge] OT Wood Stove for Shop heat

[Peter Fels And Phoebe Palmer]

Just to put up a peek of the dire future before us;
I think the only legal new wood burning stove or fireplace in 
many smog regulated Calif. counties...is a wood pellet stove with 
a catalytic converter so it can be smog-certified...groan.
When the day comes that we have to have the final on the house we 
have been building forever; I'll pull out the welded fireplace 
that's in there and rent one for the inspection.....um, er, 
..unsigned...grin

Bruce Freeman wrote:
> At one time you could purchase this converter (to fit
> in a flue pipe) for any stove.  I don't know about
> now.
> Bruce
> NJ
> --- Andrew Vida <osan at netlabs.net> wrote:
> 
>>
>> Peter Fels And Phoebe Palmer wrote:
>>> There was an "Alaskan" version of those that used
>> 2 horizontal oil 
>>> barrels, one over the other. There was an air gate
>> in the upper one and 
>>> it was supposed to benefit from secondary
>> combustion of the smoke in the 
>>> upper chamber.
>> 	I wonder if placing a catalytic converter into the
>> upper chamber would 
>> produce similar efficiency to the stoves for which
>> they were designed. 
>> A friend had one in his living room.  Two to three
>> logs, perhaps 10" in 
>> diameter would slow burn all night long.  The house
>> was so hot we used 
>> to have to open windows when it was in the single
>> digits outside.  It 
>> was one of those soapstone clad stoves... maybe
>> Tulikivi or some such 
>> Scandinavian manufacturer.  The converter makes an
>> enormous difference 
>> in the efficiency of the stove.  I'm pretty sure you
>> would have to burn 
>> 3 to 4 times as much wood to get the same heat out
>> of a stove without 
>> one.  I just don't know how tightly coupled any
>> given converter design 
>> will be to the stove for which it was
>> manufactured... or are they 
>> standard commodities?
>>
>> 	-Andy
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