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Stoves without a catalytic converter can burn wet wood, it's just that most of the heat goes out the chimney until the wood is dry. Also, where the inefficiency
by mattpallissard 3y ago
Stoves without a catalytic converter can burn wet wood, it's just that most of the heat goes out the chimney until the wood is dry. Also, where the inefficiency comes from. No way around heating water prior to combustion afaik.
- londons_explore 3y agoNo, but you can recondense the water afterwards to get the energy back. Condensing boilers are commonly used for burning natural gas and petroleum fuels already. They just have a pipe out the side that dribbles condensate water. The problem with recondensing smoke from a wood fire is you tend to end up with lots of tar and end up with a sticky mess. However, if your burn hot enough with good mixing and the right air fuel mixture, that won't happen. Unfortunately that's hard to achieve without a computer monitoring temperatures and oxygen levels and adjusting fans etc. Which obviously makes your device much more complex, less repairable, and expensive.