Posts Tagged "heating"

Masonry kitchen stove

Posted by on Jan 21, 2013 in Blog, Our work | 6 comments

We builded a new small heater that we think will be very popular. This stove combines direct heat and stored heat. It is a fast and simple build, but it performes really well. This stove responds to many of the neads expressed by the people here. Learning for Winiarskis design principles I figured that a pushing the fire in a narow gap under the coock surface should result in a more effective heat transfer. (Sketchups are on the way) This stove is amazing to coock on because on one side you have frying hot temperatures and on the other side it is suitable for slow boiling and simmering food. The design makes the coocktop a more effective heat-exchanger than it normally...

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The rock-bucket rocket

Posted by on Sep 10, 2012 in Blog, Our work, Videos | 8 comments

I got the idea of this stove construction reading a book on how they used to heat medival castels. Offcourse this is a radical downscale of the concept, but the function is somewhat the same. I really like the simplisity of this construction. And I like to think that the “organic” unnsymetrical channels formed by the rocks somehow works better together with the natural flow of gases than channels and chambers… This is neither a bell nor a channel system. It becomes something in between. I know that maintaining a good surfface/weight ratio is important for a good working stove. And I cant think of a more interesting way to obtain that. I rebuilded the...

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Testing out chimney stones for rocket-stove video…

Posted by on Mar 6, 2012 in Blog, Videos | 0 comments

In Azerbaijan it is comon to build chimneys very lightly of these kind of stones. They are made localy, but you have to pick the nice ones, because many are delivered with cracs from the manufacturer… They will work fine, but i dont expect them to last for 10-15 years like some have reported with their constructions. On the other hand they build really quickly…    

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Portable rocket stove video…

Posted by on Mar 6, 2012 in Blog, Videos | 1 comment

Here is a video of the outside testburn of the rocket stove currently heating my kitchen very nicely…    

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Sometimes looking back brings you ahead…

Posted by on Mar 5, 2012 in Blog | 0 comments

Almost by coinsident i stumbeled over this old book written before the oil-age on the topic of warming and ventilating. And it is full of global insights on heating, almost forgotten by many now. I found that the rocketstove bench is originally a Korean idea, and widely used there until this day. And so many interesting facts about wood-stove development around the world. A clean burning woodstove with secondary burning developed in sweden already in the late 1700 !! A must read for a pyromaniac

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