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What You Need to Know About Outdoor Wood Burners
Outdoor wood burning stoves are a cost-effective method of heating homes and businesses. They also help reduce the dependence on fossil fuels that are not renewable and help in implementing a sustainable energy strategy.
Well-seasoned wood is essential for efficient burning. Unseasoned or green wood has a higher moisture content and can cause creosote accumulation, which can affect performance.
Efficient
Outdoor wood burners (OWBs) have been around for years and provide an green and efficient way to heat your home. The typical design of OWBs encourages the slowing of the fire, making it cooler which results in poorer combustion and a higher amount of smoke and creosote. These unburnt fuels can cause health issues, fire hazards, and affect the environment around them.
Moreover, the visible smoke puffs that OWBs generate could cause neighbors to voice their concerns. This could lead to DEC (Department of Environmental Conservation) and taking enforcement actions. This type of issue can affect the value of your property and could lead to your OWB being closed down.
Crown Royal Stoves has a range of outdoor wood furnaces that are EPA Certified. The Pristine Gasification Series uses technology to increase the efficiency of combustion and produce an unburned, clean and smoke-free. This is achieved through the negative pressure air system that draws fresh hot, dry and filtered air from the bottom of the boiler and then pushes it out through the chimney at a much more rapid rate than traditional outdoor wood boilers. This is achieved through a unique design that utilizes an encapsulated, multi-pass heat exchanger made from 409 Titanium Enhanced Stainless Steel.
Properly utilized when properly used, the Pristine Series OWB can achieve an efficiency of 99% for a cleaner and smokeless fire. It uses less wood and produces a lot less emission than traditional OWBs. To further maximize your OWB's performance, it is important to burn clean, seasoned, dry wood. It is recommended to season your wood for a minimum of six months or one year prior to burning it. This will result in an efficient and clean burn.
In addition to maximizing the performance of your wood stove, you can also improve the efficiency of your wood burner by performing the "dry burn" every week. This technique reduces creosote which improves boiler efficiency and extends the life of your boiler. By affixing a creosote-removing stick to your stove every time you fill it up, you can dramatically reduce the amount of creosote you need to use. The product is available from Wisconsin Wood Furnace.
Clean
indoor wood burner burning stove can be very dirty due to burnt soot particles. They are extremely difficult to move If you notice any spots of buildup on the glass of your stove, you must clean them right away. Otherwise the soot will become harder and more difficult to remove. It is crucial to select the right cleaners however, you should be careful not to scratch the glass with anything that could scratch it. This could cause a weak spot that can shatter glass when exposed high temperatures.
Make sure you let your wood burner cool completely before cleaning it. Be sure that you cover the area surrounding it with newspaper. This will stop the ash from spreading and staining surfaces.
Depending on the quality of the wood you choose to use, it could take up to one year for your stove to become properly seasoned. Wood that is properly seasoned will not only burn more efficiently, but will create less creosote. This is the material that gets accumulated on your chimney, decreasing its efficiency and posing a fire hazard. If you're using unseasoned wood, or just starting a fire in your outdoor fireplace, you should open the lower backdoor and scoop the all the ashes into a nonflammable container each week.
You should also do an annual sediment flush on your boiler at least every four years. This is a quick five-second flush from the bottom drain valve of your boiler. This will remove any accumulation of sediment within the system and help keep your boiler in great operating condition.
After you have cleaned the outside of your outdoor fireplace it is time to clean it. Before you begin, it's crucial to cover the area around the stove with newspaper. It is also advisable to wear protective eyewear and gloves. Also, you should have a metal ash container, a scraping tool and a shovel. You can make use of a cloth as a shield to shield the refractory from damage while you scrape away coal and ash deposits.
Easy to Operate
Outdoor wood boilers (also known as outdoor furnaces, outdoor wood hydronic heating systems or outdoor wood heaters) are often misunderstood, despite their popularity. They were among the "it" trends of the 1990s, alongside hairstyles with mullets. They are not like the popular EPA wood stoves, which are built to burn low temperatures and run continuously. They have a higher rate of burning and produce more smoke. Some local governments limit or ban their use.
OWBs are ideal to heat homes with high insulation levels. The visible, smoldering smoke can also be a source of complaints from neighbors and has resulted in numerous OWBs being shut down or sued in the past. For OWBs, dry wood with lower moisture content is needed to perform properly. Green or unseasoned wood will reduce efficiency, causing creosote to accumulate and reduce the life of the burner. A moisture meter will help you determine how long it takes for wood to dry.
In contrast dual-stage wood gasification boilers (OWGB) employ three steps that uses more of the available energy in the wood, resulting in a lesser amount of smoke. These furnaces are more efficient than conventional OWBs and can be used to fuel many different fuels. Wood gasification boilers require dry, seasoned wood. The majority of wood will season in the course of a year. Oak and other tough trees could take as long as two years. They are less watery and have a denser mass. This lets them store heat for longer, thus increasing efficiency and reducing pollution. The EPA "Burn Wise" website and Cornell Cooperative Extension are great sources for homeowners to learn how to burn wood efficiently in order minimize air pollution.
Low Maintenance
Modern outdoor wood furnaces are designed with the environment in mind. Contrary to indoor wood stoves that emit significant smoke modern outdoor furnaces burn efficiently and without the release of excessive heat or carbon monoxide. They also require less wood to generate the same amount of heat as traditional stoves.
Outdoor wood burners require less maintenance and are more tolerant of moisture content in wood than wood burning stoves for indoor use. However, outdoor wood burners can only be used with properly seasoned or "cured" wood. It can take a year or more for some types of wood. It is essential to make use of a moisture meter to check the water content of your wood before loading.
During operation it is important to examine the system on a regular basis for the accumulation of creosote. Creosote is a by-product of combustion, can accumulate in the flue and chimney when they are not cleaned regularly. It can be eliminated using a creosote removal solution that is poured into the fire. Regular cleaning of the chimney and flue can remove harmful creosote and improve efficiency.
Crown Royal Stoves developed a new airflow technology called Negative Pressure Gasification to attain 99% efficiency in combustion. Our EPA certified Pristine Series outdoor wood furnaces utilize this technology to pull air from the bottom, pushing all gasses through an insulated water surrounded secondary combustion chamber with easy-clean turbulators for a smokeless & pollution free burn.
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