New, longer-lasting retrofit catalytic combustors can improve wood stove efficiency by 10 percent to 25 percent. Besides substantially reducing the amount of wood needed during a heating season (if ...

Wood stoves, a technology that has been around for hundreds of years, have been updated for the 21st century with vastly improved energy-efficiency and pollution control features. Also known as ...

FRANKFURT. In Germany, there are millions of small firing systems: wood-burning stoves for domestic use in which logs are burned. In the process, a lot of particulate and gaseous pollutants are ...

They should match the stove’s fuel type to the cabin’s location, access to resources, and desired maintenance level. Standard secondary-burn, or non-catalytic, wood stoves rely on a system of air ...

In northern climes in wintertime, many people relish the warmth and ambiance of a good wood fire. Maybe it’s ancestral – the cave, the clan, the fire pit – but comfort is one thing, economics is ...

EPA regulates wood stoves with a firebox volume of less than 20 cubic feet, an air to fuel ratio of less than 35 to 1, a burn rate of less than 5 kg/hr and a total weight of less than 800. The New ...

Wood is a renewable fuel and, assuming that new trees grow up to replace those cut for firewood, it is carbon-neutral, meaning that it doesn't have a net contribution to global warming. That said, ...

Wood stoves have been a favored means of heating for centuries. They are spectacular in maintaining a cozy atmosphere in homes during the freezing winter months. Moreover, their impressive efficiency ...

In the collaborative project “TeToxBeScheit”, researchers from Goethe University Frankfurt, RWTH Aachen University and the university hospitals in Aachen and Freiburg have studied how effectively ...