Seeking Engineer for Off-Grid Religious Facility Heating in the Mountain States

hot_rod

https://forum.heatinghelp.com/discussion/comment/1843895#Comment_1843895

Firewood warms you twice once in the process of obtaining it, then when you combust it.

I live in the city now, so I head to the mountains or desert to burn wood to heat and cook, in the camper, with a Cubic mini wood stove.

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jesmed1

@hot_rod Sweet. I want one of those!

jumper

Timber companies allowed folks to take branches. Stack them into piles and then haul piles out in winter on sleds. Preferable to attending church or Sunday school? In addition to drying time there's the advisability of having years' supply on hand.

Larry Weingarten

It's a small point to add, but in building a gravity driven hot water system for my house, I used modified wax filled greenhouse window operators to maintain thermostatic control. They close down modified ball valves as things warm up. It is a non-electric way of getting an even temperature.

Yours, Larry

ratio

I think a two-pipe district steam might be the easy way. The boilers can be in an outbuilding, depending on how your customer feels, you might be able get away with modern controls in the outbuilding, and TRVs or manual controls in the main buildings. Even if that's not viable, consolidating the boilers in one location should make managing them easier. Or orifices in the radiators and manage the output by controlling pressure. Might even be able to find a steam-powered vacuum pump for a vapor system.

DCContrarian

https://forum.heatinghelp.com/discussion/comment/1843830#Comment_1843830

Yeah, I seem to recall see old gravity systems with a big tank in the attic, open to the air. Served as both an expansion tank and a buffer tank.

DanHolohan

Those open tanks were just for expansion.