Piping Sketch Need Ideas Wood Boiler

[Wood Pirate]

Heres what I came up with for piping my New Yorker Add on.

The only issue I see is that my supply and return get divided prior to entering the wood boiler.

Please let me know if any changes should be made even if the changes are throw this sketch out and start all over.

Thanks guys.

Paul

 

[begreen]

Moved to boiler room for more appropriate response.

 

[Nofossil]

Any reason not to just plumb the two boilers in parallel each with their own circ so that you can run either without heating up the other?

 

[steam man]

I think the wood boiler should have its own circulator. The dump zone would then be exclusively piped to/from the wood boiler. I am not sure if the valves shown are zone valves but trying to balance the flow in the loops would seem to be tough to do with one circulator. As Noffossil says it looks like your heating the wood boiler with the oil boiler. Personally, I would use the wood boiler as a heat source with a circulator going to the oil boiler and the system as a heat load controlled by an aquastat on the wood boiler. You most likely will be only using the wood boiler around freezing temps or below so I would want to keep the oil boiler from thermal cycling. The drawing is close-some mods and it would work.

Do you have a plan for a future storage option?

Mike

 

[Nofossil]

Here's a schematic....