Design and Operating Factors Which Affect Emissions from Residential Wood-Fired Heaters: Review and Update
Introduction
Residential wood-fired heaters (RWH) have long been known to be significant polluters, especially...
Background
Wood-fuel combustion in a RWH involves complex chemical processes which include the pyrolysis and...
Reporting units for RWH emissions
One significant difficulty which emerged early in the efforts to develop RWH emissions control an...
Analysis of Cordwood-Burning RWH Emissions Dynamics
Figure 1 is a generalized illustration showing how particulate and carbon monoxide emission facto...
Secondary Combustion
Over the last 10 years, low-emission non-catalytic RWH appliances have been developed which exhib...
Firebox/ Fuel load size
The capacity of a woodstove to hold fuel is determined by the size, or usable volume, of the prim...
Controlled Air Supply and Fuel Feed Rates
Efficient combustion is difficult to accomplish in traditional RWHs especially at low burn rates ...
Conclusions
The combustion of wood in Residential Woodfired Heaters (RWHs) involves highly complex chemical p...
References
Residential Solid Fuels, Environmental Impacts and Solutions, J.A. Cooper and D. Malek, Oregon ...