Kent
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Julian,
Just pointing out the obvious, you might not see it yet but that is the track your mind is taking. Heck mine does that about things I know just a little about and its 50/50 if these ideas work. This I do know more than a little about, I worked as an agent for an importer and was in the process of setting up a large distributorship / installer outfit with a couple of mates (both of whom are very experienced heating engineers) when the Government started breaking promises made to the industry and fankly I saw the writing on the wall which was firmly set to boom-bust.
The bit you have nailed is the thermal store (of suitable size I trust) and multi heat sources feeding into it. I have spoken at length to some real experts in this field and all agree this is the future its just a case of when not if as all fuel sources become less available or fluctuate in cost. The bit that wont work is the chucking in whole pallets and gaining worthwhile heat through an exchanger, far better to do as you are currently if its working, you only get out what you put in.
I just bought 250kg of coal brickets £6 per 25kg trust me although I just burn it on a 12kw range for space heating ( a 12mtr x 12mtr kitchen area) and a lot of our cooking in winter in a large footprint room that sort of thing could produce a lot more heat for the effort and expense. Indeed have you looked at an old coal fired boiler design? the only thing wrong with them is the daily fill an the smog produced when everyone burnt coal as the staple fuel. I only burn my own wood because logs cost more than they are worth at present, with the exception of kindling which you cannot produce time wise viewed against buying in bulk. CV is the total heat produced against weight, wood burns quick but higher grade timber will in my own experience get our oven up to a higher heat quicker than coal. What wood wont do is stay in and produce its heat over longer periods
Incinerators exist that blow hot air back into workshops etc. or feed it into a conventional piped heating system in other commercial premises, look at them scale it down and copy the principle in your own burner ( I have already said this but you took it as if I was saying go buy one- I wasn't) but I do think you will need to find a better fuel so give yourself this option. Other than that you will likely i fear end up with a big lump of scrap
Just pointing out the obvious, you might not see it yet but that is the track your mind is taking. Heck mine does that about things I know just a little about and its 50/50 if these ideas work. This I do know more than a little about, I worked as an agent for an importer and was in the process of setting up a large distributorship / installer outfit with a couple of mates (both of whom are very experienced heating engineers) when the Government started breaking promises made to the industry and fankly I saw the writing on the wall which was firmly set to boom-bust.
The bit you have nailed is the thermal store (of suitable size I trust) and multi heat sources feeding into it. I have spoken at length to some real experts in this field and all agree this is the future its just a case of when not if as all fuel sources become less available or fluctuate in cost. The bit that wont work is the chucking in whole pallets and gaining worthwhile heat through an exchanger, far better to do as you are currently if its working, you only get out what you put in.
I just bought 250kg of coal brickets £6 per 25kg trust me although I just burn it on a 12kw range for space heating ( a 12mtr x 12mtr kitchen area) and a lot of our cooking in winter in a large footprint room that sort of thing could produce a lot more heat for the effort and expense. Indeed have you looked at an old coal fired boiler design? the only thing wrong with them is the daily fill an the smog produced when everyone burnt coal as the staple fuel. I only burn my own wood because logs cost more than they are worth at present, with the exception of kindling which you cannot produce time wise viewed against buying in bulk. CV is the total heat produced against weight, wood burns quick but higher grade timber will in my own experience get our oven up to a higher heat quicker than coal. What wood wont do is stay in and produce its heat over longer periods
Incinerators exist that blow hot air back into workshops etc. or feed it into a conventional piped heating system in other commercial premises, look at them scale it down and copy the principle in your own burner ( I have already said this but you took it as if I was saying go buy one- I wasn't) but I do think you will need to find a better fuel so give yourself this option. Other than that you will likely i fear end up with a big lump of scrap
