Hi,
I have a small woodworking plant that generates between 2-300 tons of chips/shavings/sawdust annually. It's all kiln dried and mostly hardwood. The building we're in came with a waste oil furnace that we run #2 fuel oil in, but it seems a shame to buy oil when we ship out far more fuel than would be needed to heat the place. Because this is a business, labor is a factor, so I would only entertain the idea of something that could be automatically fed.
Our current unit is a 500,000 BTU forced hot air unit that heats our primary manufacturing area - about 9000SF. It's actually quite oversized for our application - I think because before we bought the building this room was used for bus maintenance so there was a lot of cold steel rolling in and out and the door was open a lot. Additionally, while we're here (and need more heat) our manufacturing adds heat as well, so on a typical 10-20° winter day the furnace hardly runs. If we got something similar or slightly larger (up to 750k) in a boiler format we could run lines to heat exchangers in our two residential style OFHA furnaces as well as dump some heat into our warehouse.
My question is, what brands are there out there that would fit my parameters, and are there any tips or hints you can give me that might help steer me in the right direction with this project?
BTW, I would expect to be working on this through the spring and summer, for the '11-'12 heating season.
Thanks!
David
I have a small woodworking plant that generates between 2-300 tons of chips/shavings/sawdust annually. It's all kiln dried and mostly hardwood. The building we're in came with a waste oil furnace that we run #2 fuel oil in, but it seems a shame to buy oil when we ship out far more fuel than would be needed to heat the place. Because this is a business, labor is a factor, so I would only entertain the idea of something that could be automatically fed.
Our current unit is a 500,000 BTU forced hot air unit that heats our primary manufacturing area - about 9000SF. It's actually quite oversized for our application - I think because before we bought the building this room was used for bus maintenance so there was a lot of cold steel rolling in and out and the door was open a lot. Additionally, while we're here (and need more heat) our manufacturing adds heat as well, so on a typical 10-20° winter day the furnace hardly runs. If we got something similar or slightly larger (up to 750k) in a boiler format we could run lines to heat exchangers in our two residential style OFHA furnaces as well as dump some heat into our warehouse.
My question is, what brands are there out there that would fit my parameters, and are there any tips or hints you can give me that might help steer me in the right direction with this project?
BTW, I would expect to be working on this through the spring and summer, for the '11-'12 heating season.
Thanks!
David