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Pellet stove

Author: Sophoie Haddin
by Sophoie Haddin
Posted: Jan 30, 2015

A pellet stove is a kind of traditional stove that is much common in rural areas but unknown to urban community. However, now the trend of pellet stoves has got huge popularity due to people’s focus towards renewable energy sources. Well, what do you know about these stoves or working of a pellet heater? It is a stove that takes in biomass pellets or compressed wood as a source of energy and converts it into heat energy for residential as well as industrial spaces. The working of pellet stove is all dependent on continuous feeding of pellets or fuels from hopper into the burn pot area. Continuous pellet feeding keeps the flame constant and you don’t need to make any physical adjustments. It has been noticed that modern age central heating systems can be best operated with wood pellets and these systems can even achieve ninety percent and above efficiency factor.

How did the tradition or invention of pellet burning stoves happen? You must be familiar with the braziers, barrel stoves as well as oil drum fires that were in use since start of twentieth century. Moreover ship-lap burners as well as scrap wood burners were much common in that time. Professionally produced wooden ovens loaded with sawdust hoppers also relate to the start of twentieth century. All these popular heating systems were fueled with sawdust or scrap wood. Presto-Log was the person who introduced and invented the concept of reprocessing scrap sawdust produced out of Potlatch pine located in Lewiston for serving domestic heat purpose. This concept was then implemented and it served as a base for pellet stove idea in 1980’s.

The current era pellet stove or the present day pellet burning stove is much different from that of, available during the early time periods. The traditional or first time invented stove has been much improved to achieve high efficiency factor and provide secure warming solution. In early times, the pellet stove design was recognized as the artless boxy workhorse design but now you can witness a modern day full heating system known as pellet stove. Heat conductive cast iron or steel pieces are utilized for production of these stoves. Stainless steel is used for encasing the exhaust area and circuitry. You can find two major designs available in the market. One are the stoves that are known or popular as free standing designs and the other are stoves that can be integrated into a fireplace with a predefined chimney setup.

Are you looking for a pellet stove for residential or industrial use? Well, if you are in need of a stove for your residential use then you surely need a small stove but in other case, you will need a bigger stove to support your industrial production. For both kinds of pellet stoves, you can search for online wholesalers and retailers who also promise for the home deliver or door step delivery. You just need to place your order and make the down payment for delivery of the same to your door step.

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Sophie Haddin is an author of a href=http://www.fireflamestoves.comFire Flame Stoves site.

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