[Greenbuilding] heating DHW directly with wood

[Erin Rasmussen]

Hi Reuben, 

 

There's more experience with this on the Cooking Stoves list, and the
projects are fun.

This is a recent Welch Design:
http://stoves.bioenergylists.org/content/welsh-biochar-making

 

There are also some fun South African heaters - they are built more like a
Kelly Kettle 

Shiza Manzi is typical. 

http://www.shizamanzi.co.za/

In South Africa the water heater is called a Geyser, and it's typically
installed right outside the bathroom.

 

You can also try searching for the german word for water heater, and see
what you come up with on google and on YouTube, there are a bunch of
tinkerers out there that post their ideas and test batches online. 

 

Kind regards,

Erin Rasmussen

erin at trmiles.com 

 

From: Greenbuilding [mailto:greenbuilding-bounces at lists.bioenergylists.org]
On Behalf Of Reuben Deumling
Sent: Sunday, December 29, 2013 6:46 PM
To: Greenbuilding
Subject: [Greenbuilding] heating DHW directly with wood

 

Growing up in Germany some houses featured simple wood-fired water heaters
indoors. Micro-sized fireboxes mounted beneath a (by US-standards very
modestly sized) storage tank with a chimney out the top. These were
typically located in the bathroom, sometimes even right above the bathtub.
I've long been tempted to build something like this. I have plenty of spare
water heaters and stove pipe.

Thoughts? Ideas? Experience with this sort of thing? What to use for a
firebox? I'd love to re-appropriate something along the lines of the cast
iron portions of older water heaters, but the space requirements probably
dictate something slightly larger. 

Does anyone have experience with this AquaFire model?

http://www.transoceanltd.com/appliances/aquafire.html


Thanks very much. 

 

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