hypothetical question

[Randy Acton]

If a wood burning appliance were able to achieve complete combustion, which would be at temps around 1300F, byproducts would be co2 and water vapor.

Regardless of other byproducts, at what temp would water vapor condense enough to produce water?

Would it be dew point? In which case that would be below ambient air temp.

So I guess my real question is...if theoretically you could burn all sources of creosotes, could you reduce flue temps to at or near ambient air temps?????

 

[bholler]

Yes in theory but if you reduced the flue temps that low you could no longer rely on natural draft because there would mot be enough heat there to accomplish enough draft. And i don't think you could consistently get complete combustion without a blower anyway

 

[Randy Acton]

Without saying as much I kind of assumed that (sometimes my fingers work slower than my brain).

So that being said, with a draft induced stove you should be able to lower flue temps to close to ambient temps without worry of condensation?

 

[bholler]

It would start to condense if it was below boiling point waters boiling point not ambient temp

 

[kennyp2339]

I think your right, look at blaze king and how they have there cat placed in the stove, they use the cat as part of the heater, (not just a smoke burn off, like other companies) the heat that gets produced helps heat the stove top. There was a demo on youtube showing a bk with a hollow chimney pipe, with the by-pass opened you could see the smoke pass through the pipe, with the cat engaged not smoke could be seen and the person took the bare hand and held it over the pipe to demonstrate the cool flu gasses..its pretty cool

 

[Randy Acton]

It would start to condense if it was below boiling point waters boiling point not ambient temp

Initially that was my thought. But the relative humidity of my house is well below boiling point and it doesn't condense.

 

[bholler]

Yes but what you would be dealing with would be steam not just air

 

[bholler]

And kenny most cat stoves use the cat as part of the heater as well bk is just better at it than most. And they are still a long way from complete combustion.

 

[begreen]

This is more complete combustion. Not perfect, but pretty darn good. This stove really puts out the heat.

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