Advanced wood heating technologies. Final report

Technical Report · Wed Aug 01 04:00:00 EDT 1984

OSTI ID:6478259

Shelton, J W

The residents of the State of New York make heavy use of wood fuel for residential heating. Many advanced technology wood heaters have been introduced recently, accompanied by impressive performance claims relating to increased energy efficiency, decreased creosote accumulation, and decreased emissions. These are important claims, since they translate into fuel conservation, increased safety through fewer chimney fires, and cleaner air. The focus of this project was to test and compare six advanced technology heaters and add-on devices, along with two reference conventional stoves, for energy efficiency, creosote accumulation, and emissions. The appliances were selected, with the assistance of a panel of experts, for their anticipated technical performance and potential market penetration in New York State. The wood heaters and add-on devices based on catalytic combustors performed especially well. Compared to the reference closed stove, the better catalytic stoves consumed up to about 40% less wood to produce the same amount of useful heat, and resulted in about 90% less creosote accumulation and about 70% to 90% less emissions. Equally impressive was the fact that these systems performed very well at all burn rates, including very low burn rates. The catalytic add-on devices exhibited lesser but still significantly improved performance. This project also included tests of some operator variables, efficiency testing methods, and some catalytic combustor design variables. 17 figures, 13 tables.

• Research Organization: Shelton Energy Research, Santa Fe, NM (USA)
• OSTI ID: 6478259
• Report Number(s): NYSERDA-84-15; ON: TI84901958
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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09 BIOMASS FUELS
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42 ENGINEERING
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AIR POLLUTION CONTROL
APPLIANCES
CATALYTIC COMBUSTORS
CHEMICAL REACTIONS
COMBUSTION
COMBUSTORS
CONTROL
CREOSOTE
EFFICIENCY
EMISSION
ENERGY EFFICIENCY
OXIDATION
POLLUTION CONTROL
TESTING
THERMOCHEMICAL PROCESSES
WOOD
WOOD BURNING APPLIANCES