Tarm Biomass has been selling and supporting wood gasification boilers since 1994. Wood gasification boilers are becoming more common as more boiler companies adopt the technology to meet strict emissions rules. Learn more about the process and why a gasification boiler can be an excellent investment. In general, the process of gasification uses high heat… Read More »
If you live in a rural area (you’re reading this so you likely do), you are probably familiar with outdoor boilers, also known as outdoor wood burning stoves, outdoor wood furnaces, OWB, or hydronic heaters. Along with mullet haircuts, outdoor boilers became mainstream in the 1990s. Due to their use of smoke signals and prominent… Read More »
Most U.S. homes and businesses use either furnaces or boilers to produce heat. Because both serve the same function, people often refer to furnaces and boilers as though the terms were interchangeable, but the two are not the same. They differ in the methods used to heat a space. Wood furnaces and boilers use wood to produce… Read More »
When it comes to wood boiler efficiency, too many are “high efficiency” boilers. How could practically all wood boilers be considered highly efficient? Is the term meaningless? Even informed buyers must find the landscape very confusing. One might think a government website could help solve the confusion. However, even the EPA site listing certified wood… Read More »
Tucked away in basements and utility rooms, boilers and furnaces quietly emit about 75% of household carbon dioxide emissions. Making large reductions in household carbon footprints requires de-fossilizing home heating systems. Homeowners are in luck because new wood pellet boilers and furnaces, aka modern wood heat and cold climate air-source heat pumps (ASHPs), can eliminate… Read More »
Green wood chips or dry wood chips, what is the best fuel for heating boilers? Generally the answer depends upon scale. Green wood chip boilers and fuel handling systems require more infrastructure, which means both a larger investment and larger requirements for floor space. Green wood chips do not require as much processing and handling… Read More »
All Solid fuel hot water boilers must be installed with an ability to shed heat with or without the benefit of electrical power. In the unusual event a boiler exceeds its set-point temperature and the temperature is continuing to climb, an over-heat dump zone may be the only means for preventing the boiler from making… Read More »
Storing renewable energy is one of the great challenges of the current age. Until renewable energy can be stored reliably and in massive quantities, we are not able to relinquish our use of fossil and nuclear fuels. There is no single energy storage method that can solve all of our needs, though electric batteries hold… Read More »
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 »
