Wood stove having catalytic converter

Patent · Tue Dec 14 04:00:00 EST 1982

OSTI ID:6521993

Willson, A C

A wood burning stove is formed with double front and rear side walls of heat conductive metal spaced apart by heat conductive spacer fins and providing air passageways by which room air is heated by conduction from the walls which are heated by the burning of wood deposited on a firebox floor supported in heat conducting relationship with the inner side walls. A catalytic converter is disposed over the fire area in the upper portion of the stove, and is arranged to receive preheated fresh secondary air which mixes with hot, incompletely combusted compounds from the fire and, in the presence of the catalyst, induces a secondary combustion of the substances. This mixture is channeled into a heat extraction chamber where the secondary combustion is completed and the resultant heat is transferred to the metal body of the stove. An exhaust passageway is provided for releasing the products of complete combustion into the atmosphere.

• Assignee: EDB-83-059640
• Patent Number(s): US 4363785
• OSTI ID: 6521993
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

42 ENGINEERING
421000* -- Engineering-- Combustion Systems
AIR FLOW
APPLIANCES
CATALYTIC CONVERTERS
ENERGY TRANSFER
EQUIPMENT
FLUID FLOW
GAS FLOW
HEAT EXTRACTION
HEAT TRANSFER
HEATING
PHYSICAL PROPERTIES
POLLUTION CONTROL EQUIPMENT
SPACE HEATING
STOVES
THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY
THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES
WOOD BURNING APPLIANCES