OUT DOOR WOOD BOILER INSTALLATION

Andy Morgan_2

could you post a piping diagram for your suggestion?

Thanks
Andy Morgan
Riverside Mechanical, LLC

bob eck

OUTDOOR WOOD BOILER

I will be installing outdoor wood boilers and I have some questions.

I was going to uses a heat transfer solar storage tank with two coils in the tank.

the bottom coil will be connected to the outside boiler.

the water in the tank will be used to go into the existing heating system.

the top coil will be used to run the cold domestic water through it to warm the domestic water up before going into their water heater.

or should I use the bottom coil for the outside wood boiler.

the top coil hooked into the existing heating system.

and the water in the tank to be used for domestic hot water running into a back up water heater?

will this system work or is there a better way?

thanks for your input.

Ron Huber_2

beware of the ban

There are many towns here in NH that are banning the use of outdoor wood boilers. If a neighbor complains to the EPA, they can shut you down. Smoke blowing into abutters property or into a roadway and they will shut you down. I see this as a continuing problem with these units. Wood is great, but ask anybody who had a wood boiler in the 70's and 80's and they will tell you why they stopped burning wood.

hot_rod

I would

bottom coil for wood, possibly summer solar input. Tank for DHW . Maybe just preheat depending on how low you will pull down the tank temperature with the upper "heating" coil.

Buy as much tank capacity as money will allow. Storage being the holy grail for wood and solar.

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Tim_34

\"Is there a better way\" you ask

Since you asked if there is a better way I would suggest that if you haven't already purchased your wood boiler, you might consider other possibilities.

If the wood boiler you are getting is a standard atmospheric type, give yourself and your neighbors a break and consider an alternative.

That is, of course, unless your wood boiler is a european style gasification model.

Jason Horner_2

"....european style gasification model"????

Any suggestions as to manufacturers of these?

A friend of mine has a cottage on 45 acres of land (with lots of dead trees to harvest) and was asking me about outdoor boilers. I have no working knowledge to be able to talk intelligently about them.

Steve Ebels_3

3 main brands available right now

Econoburn, Tarm and EKO.

You can google each to get to the respective website. They use far less wood than a non gasifying boiler of the same output.

hot_rod

This schematic

is actually a solar input, although it could be a wood boiler, or any input for that matter. It shows a mod con backup, which, again, could be any boiler or additional input.

It also shows mixing options for radiant. This is in the Caleffi I-dronics 3 tech journal. download it free at

www.caleffi.us/caleffi/en_US/Site/Technical_library/Idraulica_magazine/index.sdo

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