warming – Tamiz Solutions

Masonry kitchen stove

admin — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 15:13:57 +0000

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 is. I would sum up this stove like this.

Small mass (300 kg) with quick response (sunny days in the winter can get quite warm and heating a big mass is not always desiered) It can be put on a wood floor without reinforcements.
Instant heat. It can throw off a signifficant amount of heat directly from the coocktopp. This heat comes instantly after the fire is going.
Effecient for cooking. The coocktop is ready in two minutes! It boiled 3 liters of water in 12 minutes.
Burnchamber suitable for baking one bread after burn. Grills can be done on the coals to.
Clean-effecient burn with secondary air provided in the back.
Movable ( it can be carried by four men or slided on the floor to be put in a corner of the room for the summer)
Cheap! This stove costs 35 azn in materials, that is less than 50 $. It can be builded in one day!
Chimney temperature is low, but increases significantly if you burn it more than 1-2 hours. Mabe it can be completed with a bench to extract more heat.
Works with the standard 4″ chimney that they use here.
It can be suited with a small water-heatexchanger.

The family that are testing it lives in a mountain village where the winter is hard. They are reporting that it so far works great, heats much better than their old stove, uses significantly less wood, burns cleaner. It hardly neads any atention to continue burning. It is much better to cook on. It dosent nead to be cleaned often ( the old stove neaded chimeny sweep every month!) The draft is much better ,the door can be opened for fire gazing (and provide light when the electric is gone) It retains the heat pretty much through the night and leave some glowing coals to the morning so it is easy to light it up again. It makes the room dryer as it is provided with a more stable heat-source It will last longer before they nead to change it. We would say 10 years with minor maintainance.

Testing out chimney stones for rocket-stove video…

admin — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 18:38:03 +0000

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…

Sometimes looking back brings you ahead…

admin — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 12:51:01 +0000

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

Bench finished

admin — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 12:09:41 +0000

My smal 1 tonn bench project is now finished and heating well. We are extremely happy with how it works and how it looks. It is made of wood with Iranian granite tiles on top. It is filled with riverrocks and sand , but no mortar. This is because it is constructed in a rented house , and it can`t be guarantied that the landlord wont tell us to move it later. I still think it does a pretty good job heating our buts

Tha advantage by constructing it like this is that the user can move away both the flue and the stove in the warm season, and by that have only a nice bench left.

The whole setup costs about 100 dollars, and will make a huge difference in wood consumption. Initial testing shows that consumption can be redused with 70% compared to the local stove. That means payback time for the investment can happen within one winter!! Additionally, considering hiring a plumbing service to ensure optimal efficiency and maintenance could further enhance the savings and longevity of the plumbing system.

A lot of locals have been resistant to the thought of having a big bench that cant be moved in their house. Ofcourse this is a new concept to them, they are used to instant radiant heat, not the kind of heat you get by conduction sitting on a heated bench. Our hope is that by trying it, more people will be convinced of the comfort it gives them.

I will post some pictures later, with some construction detail.