Comments on: Central heating with a wood gasification boiler http://blog.jonudell.net/2009/01/11/central-heating-with-a-wood-gasification-boiler/ Strategies for Internet citizens Sun, 12 Feb 2012 18:22:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: snake plissken http://blog.jonudell.net/2009/01/11/central-heating-with-a-wood-gasification-boiler/#comment-206751 Mon, 30 Jan 2012 04:24:45 +0000 http://blog.jonudell.net/?p=945#comment-206751 hi everybody

great article, and i am curious about few details, if Jon Udell can clarify please. its about how much wood cords he used.

how big is the house you are heating? how good insulation it has? how many rooms you are heating w this system?

how long heating season lasts in your area? what kind of outside temperatures you got there?

best regards

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]]> By: Robert Martin http://blog.jonudell.net/2009/01/11/central-heating-with-a-wood-gasification-boiler/#comment-198031 Mon, 12 Dec 2011 16:47:39 +0000 http://blog.jonudell.net/?p=945#comment-198031 I’ve been heating a 2500 square foot residence with a Garn for 3 seasons. The gassification is most efficient with the maximum fast burn rate induced with a blower making the secondary chamber 2000 degrees F. I think of this system as a water furnace since it can store 700,000 Btu’s between 200 degrees and 140 degrees. The 32 lineal feet of 4 inch exhaust wind through the 1400 gallons of water and this flu needs brushing 2 times per season by simply turning on the blower to take away the loosened soot. My stack is horizontal discharging within 4 feet of the ground and shows slight discoloration of approximately a 3 foot circle on the snow. The combustion is clean and what does come out is mostly water vapor a natural product of burning. As with any energy storage is the real dilemma. A reservoir of a couple thousand gallons of highly insulated water is a simple method to store a million Btu’s. Glauber’s salt will store a lot too and at the useable phase change temperature of 95 degrees F. but there are some complications water doesn’t have. If storage is really considered and I don’t mean a piddly 500 gallons then the many issues of a slow smoldering appliance can be avoided.

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]]> By: Jon Udell http://blog.jonudell.net/2009/01/11/central-heating-with-a-wood-gasification-boiler/#comment-170045 Fri, 24 Jun 2011 12:06:37 +0000 http://blog.jonudell.net/?p=945#comment-170045 Yeah. It’s interesting how the filters still can’t catch a lot of what is so obvious to a person.

]]> By: Bob Erb http://blog.jonudell.net/2009/01/11/central-heating-with-a-wood-gasification-boiler/#comment-170012 Fri, 24 Jun 2011 05:15:30 +0000 http://blog.jonudell.net/?p=945#comment-170012 How does comment spam work? Is this to drive traffic to the URL behind “Plumber in Leeds”? Or part of some sucky SEO crap to raise the page rank of the URL?

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]]> By: Bruce Wayne http://blog.jonudell.net/2009/01/11/central-heating-with-a-wood-gasification-boiler/#comment-148354 Thu, 03 Feb 2011 22:20:11 +0000 http://blog.jonudell.net/?p=945#comment-148354 NO !!!!! Don’t bury the tank unless you can insulate it and keep moister away because the heat will trans fer into the ground and you’ll burn all kinds of wood then. to learn more about wood gasification wood boilers and great discussion boards go to hearth.com

]]> By: Jon Udell http://blog.jonudell.net/2009/01/11/central-heating-with-a-wood-gasification-boiler/#comment-146921 Thu, 20 Jan 2011 20:08:24 +0000 http://blog.jonudell.net/?p=945#comment-146921 @Rudy, 6 months for you too? Because of regulatory red tape or actual logistics or both? Anyway, congrats!

@Matt, it’s going well thanks. I do wish I’d been able to add hot water storage to the system, and hope to someday, but in the middle of our third winter with it I’m really happy with what we’ve got.

]]> By: Matt Miller http://blog.jonudell.net/2009/01/11/central-heating-with-a-wood-gasification-boiler/#comment-146910 Thu, 20 Jan 2011 13:43:14 +0000 http://blog.jonudell.net/?p=945#comment-146910 Jon,
Just curious how everything is working out now after 2 years with the EKO?
I’m in Northern Vermont and considering a gasification unit to install and recommend.
I am also a heating technician, specializing in automating multi-fuel systems.
Thank you for your insight.

Matt

]]> By: Rudy Nunez http://blog.jonudell.net/2009/01/11/central-heating-with-a-wood-gasification-boiler/#comment-145658 Thu, 06 Jan 2011 03:23:56 +0000 http://blog.jonudell.net/?p=945#comment-145658 I just fired up my EKO 40 for the first time. I’m the first in my city (and probably county) to have a gasification boiler. I live in Ithaca, NY. I own a duplex in downtown and I’m heating both my side and my tenant’s. I sprung for the 500 gal. storage tank, too.

I laughed when I read about your 6 month struggle getting it installed. Mine took 6 months as well.

]]> By: Jon Udell http://blog.jonudell.net/2009/01/11/central-heating-with-a-wood-gasification-boiler/#comment-143515 Mon, 13 Dec 2010 19:01:58 +0000 http://blog.jonudell.net/?p=945#comment-143515 @Mike Just wondering if you thought of a heat storage system?

Yeah, wish I could’ve, wasn’t in the budget, maybe someday.

@Jason A wood gasification boiler is something I’ve looked into for a new house that would be very well insulated.

I think you’d be in good shape without the storage tank, and great shape with it.

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