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Results of laboratory tests on wood-stove emissions and efficiency

Technical Report ·
OSTI ID:6388707
Air-tight, wood-burning stoves were operated in a manner consistent with typical residential heating requirements in order to determine particulate and carbon monoxide emissions and creosote build-up. Test data are presented as functions of burn-rates and stove efficiencies. The principal conclusions are that emissions from the stove used in this study are related to log-size and wood burn-rate and that CO and particulate emissions and creosote build-up increased with increasing efficiency of operation. Therefore, future environmental testing should be conducted at typical stove operating conditions, low burn-rates with large logs. In addition, heat-loss calculations show a trade-off between sensible heat loss and CO-fuel heat loss over the range of burn-rates studied. This indicates that, if further improvements in stove efficiencies are desired, improvements in stove combustion efficiency are needed. This also decreases stove emissions.
Research Organization:
Argonne National Lab., IL (USA)
DOE Contract Number:
W-31109-ENG-38
OSTI ID:
6388707
Report Number(s):
CONF-810295-1; ON: DE83007784
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English