[Stoves] Need institutional cooking stove for goat dairy in Oregon

[Crispin Pemberton-Pigott]

Dear Kelpie

What you could suggest is to look for “process heat” applications where the product is hot water.  This is a hydronic heater by another name and boils down to creating a clean burning low pressure boiler. It sounds like they have the ideal fuel and a simple application.

Perhaps they should contact the people nearby making the Rocket Mass Heaters (Ianto Evans’ group) and lead how to build their burner, but instead of attaching it to a space heater, put a water heating exchanger on the output.

The advantages are that the burner is high power, and it doesn’t need nearly as much attention as one the Instove products.  The heat exchanged could be of a down-drafting type which is always more efficient than the typical updrafting hydronic heaters.  The combustion quality is very good on the RMH and as it only has to operate high power (now and then) it might suit them very well.

There is no good reason why a water heater should not have an efficiency in the 80’s.

Secondly there is an option to buy a kit from Tulikivi (in the US) and again, attach a heat exchanger to heat water.  They are very clean burning as attested by numerous tests locally and overseas.

Regards
Crispin

tulikivi.co.uk for an English language site

From: Stoves <stoves-bounces at lists.bioenergylists.org> On Behalf Of Kelpie Wilson
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Subject: [Stoves] Need institutional cooking stove for goat dairy in Oregon

Hi all,
I was doing a biochar workshop near Portland Oregon at a goat dairy last weekend and they asked about wood stoves for heating process water. They spend a fortune on propane now, and have gobs of wood they need to get rid of (overgrown christmas trees). I thought of InStove in Cottage Grove and went to look for information and their website has disappeared. Does anyone know what happened to Fred Colgan and his company? Is there another place where people in the US could buy one of his wonderful stoves or something like it?

thanks,
Kelpie

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