Sawdust stove

[gremar]

Been searching the net for quite a while for information on a new style sawdust stove. The closest thing to it that I can find is called a biomass or biofuel burner and usually has enough btu's to heat a pig farm. :sick: I want to heat 3000 sq ft.
Does anyone know of such a system?

Thanx,
gremar

 

[restorer]

Gremar,
There have been a few threads running recently about sawdust burners. Nothing that really looks promising except an experiment in Vermont somewhat related using chips.See this link: http://tinyurl.com/22xfef It's part of the recent dust burner threads. Most burners are too large for home use, and scaling them down seems technologically challenging.

 

[mtarbert]

I went to the web site for the chip furnace and am wondering what others think about it.
Mike

 

[gremar]

Thanx Uncle Rich, It's stuff like that that I find very interesting. I haven't read all of it yet but I suspect it will burn sawdust as well as chips or at least a mixture of the two and who knows what else a person can throw in there .

 

[Eric Johnson]

I know a few people in Vermont who have chip gasifiers. They rave about them.

One problem is that you need a uniform-size chip within certain specs. They're not the same as a whole-tree biomass chip, so they're harder to come by.

But it's proven technology.