Cleaning up Woodstove Heat Emissions

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Our experimental setup on a Buck Stove. The sensor line leads down the back of the stovepipe.
Our experimental setup on a Buck Stove. The sensor line leads down the back of the stovepipe.
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Diagram: Thermostat parts layout.
Diagram: Thermostat parts layout.

With the chill of autumn rapidly settling in and woodpiles beckoning, it’s time to look at cleaning up wood heat emissions for 1982-1983. 

PART I: WOODSTOVE INTRODUCTION

Last autumn, when we printed our article “Woodstove Smoke” (see MOTHER EARTH NEWS issue 72, page 72), we were able to report on a number of interesting developments that — it was hoped — would help solve the related problems of woodburning emissions, creosote, and efficiency. Since then, many of the experimental technologies discussed in that story have produced readily available items . . . and an interest in marketing clean, efficient products seems to have penetrated the mainstream of the wood-heating industry.

In the hurry to get new stoves into stores, however, the industry’s research — though still extensive — simply hasn’t born as much fruit this year as it did last. Still, we’d like to use this heating season’s report to update the developments mentioned in last year’s story . . . tell you about a few interesting new items on cleaning up woodstove heat emissions . . . and detail some work we’ve been doing ourselves!

Woodstoves and Secondary Combustion

  • Published on Sep 1, 1982
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