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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-CA link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'>Dear Friends of Biomass Burners<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><o:p> </o:p></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:22.5pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:blue'><a href="http://biomassmagazine.com/articles/11513/epa-finalizes-nsps-for-residential-wood-heaters?utm_source=March+2015+Newsletter&utm_campaign=Mar+15+Newsletter&utm_medium=email">Biomass Magazine: Overview of regulations<span style='font-weight:normal'> </span></a></span></b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:blue'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:22.5pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#4F604F'>This balanced overview quotes Jack Goldman (HPBA), Jennifer Hedrick (PFI) and John Ackerly (AGH).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span lang=EN style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif'>“The new rule, however, does set the first-ever federal standards for hydronic heaters, wood-fired forced air furnaces, pellet stoves and a previously unregulated type of wood stove called a single burnrate stove.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span lang=EN style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"helvetica neue",serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA'>[Can anyone define a single burnrate stove? TLUD, maybe?]<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"helvetica neue",serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:22.5pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:blue'><a href="https://www.centralmaine.com/2015/02/04/epa-approves-new-woodstove-emissions-standards/?utm_source=March+2015+Newsletter&utm_campaign=Mar+15+Newsletter&utm_medium=email" target="_blank">Families for Clean Air: NSPS a sell-out to stove industry?<span style='font-weight:normal'> </span></a></span></b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:blue'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:22.5pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#4F604F'>The EPA's new rules was applauded by health and environmental groups as a way to lower emissions. But a closer look shows that this limit may have no effect-or even the opposite effect-on emissions in the longer term.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Apparently not everyone is happy about this, though the Association for producers seems to be:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:22.5pt'><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#4F604F'>"With the new furnaces you need wood cut 6 months -1 year in advance, many people will not do that." </span><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:22.5pt'><span style='font-size:8.0pt;color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:22.5pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:blue'><a href="http://www.9and10news.com/story/28064558/new-epa-guidelines-limit-what-kind-of-wood-stoves-you-can-buy?utm_source=March+2015+Newsletter&utm_campaign=Mar+15+Newsletter&utm_medium=email" target="_blank">From Wyoming: Too much regulation is intrusive<span style='font-weight:normal'> <o:p></o:p></span></a></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:22.5pt'><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#4F604F'>Wyoming Senator Lummis: "The EPA has too much time, personnel and money ... and is now regulating, of all things...wood stoves"</span><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:22.5pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:blue'><a href="http://luetkemeyer.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=398537&utm_source=March+2015+Newsletter&utm_campaign=Mar+15+Newsletter&utm_medium=email" target="_blank">From Missouri: so against regulation<span style='font-weight:normal'> <o:p></o:p></span></a></span></b></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:22.5pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#4F604F'>Congressman Luetkemeyer says its "beffudling" that EPA would regulate wood stoves when "12 percent of all homes, burn wood as their primary heating fuel." [Editor's note: Primary wood heating accounts for 2.1% of US homes.] He plans to introduce more legislation to strip the NSPS of key standards.</span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#4F604F'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The water heating stoves are permitted emissions measured in the units “PM mass/unit of heat from the fire” (as far as I can understand the regulations) meaning per unit of heat theoretically generated, not per unit of heat delivered. If you know this interpretation is incorrect I would like to hear about from you.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>For new woodstoves it is mass per hour without regard for the size of the stove which the cooking stove community may find odd. The reason is that each home is permitted to emit a certain mass into the air around their house.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>“<span lang=EN style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif'>The EPA has set step one emissions limits for new woodstoves and pellet stoves as 4.5 grams of particulate matter (PM) per hour of operation for catalytic and noncatalytic stoves. The step two PM limit is 2 grams per hour for catalytic and noncatalytic stoves if emissions are tested using cribs or 2.5 grams per hour if tested with cord wood using an EPA approved method.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>That 4.5g is 1.25 mg per second. If that was from a 7 kW fire and the thermal efficiency is 70%, it is 255 mg/delivered MJ so it is a pretty high number.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Masonry heaters are not yet regulated as there is not an agreed test method.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Regards<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Crispin<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>