What is a “Modern Wood Boiler”? Modern wood boilers use sensors, such as oxygen sensors like those found in modern automobile engines, to provide real-time combustion adjustment with separate primary and secondary air controls. Sometimes these boilers are called “lambda controlled wood boilers”. Modern wood boilers almost always use induced draft fans rather than forced… Read More »
Israel River Campground in Jefferson, NH has been burning over 12 cords of wood and 1,400 gallons of oil per season for 10 years in an HS-Tarm Excel multi-fuel wood gasification boiler. The almost 7,000 square foot main building, which houses the camp store, bathrooms, laundry facilities, recreation room, and owner’s living quarters is a… Read More »
Wood burning is carbon neutral. For thousands of years, wood burning has been carbon neutral. Now that we face a climate crisis, some people have concluded that wood burning is no longer carbon neutral. What changed? Here’s what hasn’t changed: People believe the science they want to believe. Some think all forestry is unsustainable. Other’s… Read More »
Equipment: Fröling PE1 Automatic Pellet Boiler piped in series with existing Burnham oil boiler. Homebuilt 3-4 ton hand-fed wood pellet bin with three pick-up probes. The customer supplied the thermal storage tank. Replaced 150,000 Btu/hr outdoor wood boiler that burned approximately 12 full cords of wood a year. House Description: Heating approximately 2,700 sq. ft.… Read More »
We previously posted about the pellet boiler installation at our offices, which consists of two Froling P4 100 commercial pellet boilers. The prior post was made from the 30,000 foot perspective. This post dives a little deeper to also show key commercial pellet boiler installation components. From the fuel storage to the boilers we will… Read More »
World class products such as Effecta wood boilers aren’t hatched in one day. Making great wood boilers requires reactionary development and evolutionary design. Markets are ever changing. In Sweden, where renewable heat is ordinary, Effecta has become known as a market leader. Thirty six years of effort and experience are infused into Effecta wood boilers. … Read More »
World class products such as Effecta wood boilers aren’t hatched in one day. Making great wood boilers requires reactionary development and evolutionary design. Markets are ever changing. In Sweden, where renewable heat is ordinary, Effecta has become known as a market leader. Thirty six years of effort and experience are infused into Effecta wood boilers. … Read More »
A Box of Water with Fire Inside Wood boilers control fire. It’s an old story. The ancient people discovered fire. Hairy the caveman rubbed two sticks together and made an ember. Hairy controlled his fire by adding the right size wood at the right time. Modern people didn’t like caves or living outside, so they… Read More »
A Fertile Opportunity for Renewable Heating Sometimes nice old buildings present fertile opportunities for renewable heating makeovers with Fröling wood pellet boilers. Here is a great example. The 30,000 square foot office and warehouse was built starting in 1965 by New Hampshire Governor Meldrim Thomson for his Equity Publishing business. As Governor Thomson’s business grew… Read More »
The house is a two-story 4,800 (total) square foot log structure built by its owners several decades ago. The roof is supported by scissor trusses, which create vaulted ceilings and a small attic space above the ceilings. Originally, there were two boilers providing the heat, a Frank’s Wood Boiler and a separate oil boiler, both… Read More »
