Adding Secondary Burn To Wood Stove

Burning wet unseasoned wood will build up tar and acid in your firebox.

Adding secondary burn to wood stove.

Then it enters the front of the stove over the fire is routed through solid pipe to the rear of the stove for preheating and then is dumped into the top of the burn area just under the baffle through the holes drilled down the length of the burn tubes. Secondary air can be controlled from the gate valves and shut off if there were ever a chimney fire. 2 the secondary air you are looking for will only work well if you burn dry wood. Here goes to achieve secondary burn 1 you need a good amount of heat in your stove and good coals.

A second feed of air over the fire in a wood stove firebox helps secondary burn to occur. Other than burning good wood and not choking down a slow smoldering fire what can be done to maximize my heat output and minimize smoke creosote yucky stuff. How secondary combustion in a woodstove works. It is sometimes referred to as a clean burn clean burning stove or tertiary air all of which mean a reduction in emissions and an overall improved efficiency.

This is a project to increase the efficiency of an older but still very serviceable wood burning stove. Part 2 of 2 yet another improvement to my old franko belge lorraine multi fuel stove log burner that has enabled cleaner combustion and more fuel savings. To achieve the secondary burn you will need secondary air. That gradually stops when the wood becomes more charcoal like and burns with less flames.

Stove world uk explains why a woodburning stove with secondary burn is so good. Scott also goes through a method for actually measuring the efficiency of a wood stove using just a wind meter and a thermometer. Scott added an air supply for secondary combustion and retrofitted a catalytic combustor. The secondairy burn is mostly used in the first phase of a new log.

I have a vogelzang mountaineer wood stove non catalytic steel box lined with firebrick steel baffle above fire and air intake above glass viewing door. Currently the sides and back are insulated. Secondary burn is a feature incorporated in the majority of new wood burning stoves. Maybe i should also add some insulation tiles to the baffle plate.

The tubes run up the sides of the stove. With secondary combustion systems for wood stoves this secondary heat can be used to add additional heat energy to the primary heat.