High Efficiency Wood Boilers (ME)

rumn8r

Anyone have any experience with this company?

http://www.alternativefuelboilers.com/

Always looking...

ME

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A gasification boiler that burns

green wood! That goes against everything else I have learned about the gasification process.
Many of the Euro gasification boiler manufactures want you to check your firewood with a moisture meter to assure it is dry.

Wet or green wood is a bad match for gasification, or any wood burner in my opinion.

Other than that it looks very similar to other gasification burners, many of which have been tested in the low to mid 80% efficiency range. Easily double what most OWF will do with DRY hardwood.

Here is a page from my EKO Vimar sales slick.

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Ron Huber

wood on wood

1) most wood boilers are oversized for the area that homeowners are trying to heat, (usualy start out at 150K 2) even a gasifier with water storage buffer that is oversized will creosote with dry seasoned wood. 3) throw in the added problems of burning unseasoned wood (less than 2 years stacked properly) and you will have to clean that sucker at least twice during the heating season. I once worked at a stove shop part time in the 70's and had a guy who wanted a stove that he could burn his garbage in, and old phone books, no matter what I told him he insisted that he could do that in a wood stove, I consult on Tarm installations for the piping and controls, and still run in to homeowners that even after all the education process, they still are going to burn the green cordwood that they Just bought at the reduced rate of seasoned wood because it was cheaper. They just spent $11,000+ on the boiler and storage tank and another 4 or 5K on the installation, and their going to screw up by burning green wood, takes so many btu's to drive that moisture out before they get usable heat, it becomes a net energy loss.

hr

Oh they build small gasification

boilers. I've sold a 18KW (61,000 btu/hr) and a couple 24KW (81,000 btu/hr)

The fire boxes are micro small, however. Not much more than 2X6 scraps fit through the door. They pretty much need to be fed every couple hours.

They must have some very small homes with all day fire tenders across the pond.

On the front end wood heat looks pretty romantic. Spend a few years servicing, training, hours worth of overheat callbacks, etc and you learn to screen the customer VERY carefully!

I'll fire my first biomass 80,000 boiler this week. the self feed auger to burn corn, pellets, and various grains and cereals makes a bit more sense for the "average joe"

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S Ebels

Sounds like

Sounds like a bunch of smoke and mirrors to me.

Smoke, in copious quantities, coming out of the stack, the door and every other crack and crevice in the unit and...........mirrors, to look inside the thing and see where it's plugged up