How High Can You Go With Single Wall Vitreous Flue Pipe?
1.8 Metre’s Is The Recommended Height
Can Single Wall Vitreous Flue Pipe Be Used On Condensing Boilers?
No Because There Has To Be A Rubber Seal On The Flue
What is Afterburn™?
Afterburn™ is Esse Engineering Limited’s unique secondary combustion Airwash system that develops a cleaner burn and clearer fire view. It also offers precise control of the flame pattern producing stunning displays.
What is Tripleburn®?
Tripleburn® technology is what gives Cleanburn stoves their super-low emission rates. It ensures that the fuel is fully burned, which means there’s less smoke escaping up the chimney.
How Does Tripleburn® work?
The way Tripleburn® works is the way three streams of air are directed into the stove to maximise combustion. Air is drawn in beneath the fuel, above the fuel (passing in front of the glass door), and behind the fuel. This hot air improves ignition so that fuel burns more efficiently, leaving less to be released into the atmosphere.
The Tripleburn® stream technology ensures that air is always directed to the right place. If you’re burning wood, close the grate – the air from above, directed into the heart of the fire, enables optimum burning. For smokeless fuels, open the grate and allow the sir to flow through the bed, which provides the best conditions for these fuels.
Finally, the air stream that passes between the fire and the glass door is particularly important, because it prevents carbon deposits from building up on the glass. Which, as anyone who owns a stove can tell you, will save you a chore on cleaning day.
What does HETAS stand for?
Hetas is the acronym for the Heating Equipment Testing and Approval Scheme which is the Independent UK body recognised by DEFRA for the official testing and approval of domestic solid fuels, solid fuel and wood burning appliances and associated equipment and services.
What is HETAS?
HETAS is the Independent UK body recognised by DEFRA for the official testing and approval of domestic solid fuels, solid fuel and wood burning appliances and associated equipment and services.
What does DEFRA Stand For?
Department For Environment Food & Rural Affairs.
What does DEFRA do?
DEFRA’s purpose is “to secure healthy environment in which we and future generations can prosper”.
DEFRA helps people adapt to the changes involved in building a low-carbon, resource-efficient economy. They deal with environmental risks and work towards securing a sustainable society and a healthy environment.
DEFRA’s priorities are to:
Secure a healthy natural environment for us all and deal with environmental risks
Promote a sustainable, low-carbon and resource-efficient economy
Ensure a thriving farming sector and a sustainable, healthy and secure food supply
DEFRA Lead for Government on the Public Service Agreement (PSA) on the natural environment
What Can You Burn In A Smoke Control Area?
If you live in a building in a smoke control area you are legally only allowed to burn authorised fuels, anthracite, semi-anthracite, gas, low volatile steam coals on a fireplace or appliance that is not an exempt appliance. Non-authorised fuels can only legally be burnt in an exempt appliance which has been approved to burn the chosen fuel.
Wood, wood chips and wood pellets are not authorised fuels and therefore to burn these fuels in a smoke control area they must be burnt in an exempt appliance which has been demonstrated to be suitable for burning wood.
Can Oil or other liquid fuels be used in fireplaces / appliances in smoke control areas?
Oil or other liquid fuel can be used legally in a smoke control area if burnt in any fireplace specially designed or adapted for combustion of liquid fuel.
Can I burn wood, wood chips or wood pellets inside a smoke control area?
Wood, wood chips and wood pellets are not authorised fuels and therefore to burn these fuels in a building inside a smoke control area they must be burnt in an exempt appliance that is exempt when burning wood. It is an offence to acquire any unauthorised solid fuel for use in a building in a smoke control area other than in a building or appliance that is exempt.
Are anthracite, semi-anthracite, electricity, gas, low volatile steam coals authorised fuels for smoke control areas?
Yes, anthracite, semi-anthracite, electricity, gas, low volatile steam coals are authorised fuels.
Can I use kindling, wood, paper and firelighters to start my fire in a smoke control area?
Whether kindling can be used in a smoke control area depends on the way that the original smoke control order was written. Some orders require a gas poker to be used to start the fire while others allow a reasonable amount of kindling wood, paper, firelighters etc,. You should contact your local authority environmental health or protection department for clarification.
Wood, wood chips and wood pellets are renewable fuels, why are they not automatically authorised fuels?
Wood, wood chips and pellets are renewable fuels and the use of renewable fuels reduces overall CO2 emissions. However, the aim of the Clean Air Act is to limit particulate emissions to protect air quality and public health.
An appliance is described as "clean burn", "clean heat" or "low emission" - do these appliances meet the requirements of the Clean Air Act?
The terms "clean burn", "clean heat" and "low emission appliance" are marketing terms occasionally used by stove manufacturers or distributors and provide no guarantee that appliances are exempt or suitable for exemption. The exemption process requires appliances to be assessed in terms of their particulate emissions through the appliance assessment process.
Alternatively, any appliance can be used in a smoke control area if the appliances are only used to burn authorised fuels.
I have been told that an appliance has been tested to EN303-5, does this automatically mean the appliances are exempt?
Appliances that have been tested to EN303-5 may be suitable for exemption however all appliances need to be assessed to become exempt appliances.
What Does CE Stand For?
The initials “CE” do not stand for any specific words but are a declaration by the manufacturer hat his product meets the requirements of the applicable European Directive(s).
What Is CE Marking?
CE marking is a declaration by the manufacturer that the product meets all the appropriate provisions of the relevant legislation implementing certain European Directives. CE marking gives companies easier access into the European market to sell their products without adaptation or rechecking. The initials "CE" do not stand for any specific words but are a declaration by the manufacturer that his product meets the requirements of the applicable European Directive(s).
What Does OFTEC Stand For?
Oil Firing Technical Association
Why Should I Burn Wood?
When plants grow they use carbon dioxide from the air to make their wood. If you burn the wood the carbon is released back to the atmosphere. As long as you grow another plant/tree then a stable carbon cycle is set up. So ,the use of sustainable produced wood as a fuel does not increase the carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere.
Can I Use Wood Fuel To Heat My Home?
Wood fuel is one of the most appropriate renewable energy technologies for heating the home. In a domestic property the two fuels to consider are logs or pellets. Woodchips are not generally suitable for use in a domestic property because of the ancillary equipment needed.
Could I Be Self Sufficient In Wood?
You would need to have sufficient land to produce 6 to 12 tonnes dry logs p.a. This could be done by planting a hectare of poplar which after the third year would produce approximately 10 tonnes of logs pa.
What Is A Carbon Footprint?
The carbon footprint is a measure of the exclusive global amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gases emitted by a human activity or accumulated over the full life cycle of a product or service.
The life cycle concept means that it is all-encompassing and includes all possible causes that give rise to carbon emissions. In other words, all direct (on-site, internal) and indirect emissions (off-site, external, embodied, upstream, downstream) need to be taken into account.
Normally, a carbon footprint is expressed as a CO2 equivalent (usually in kilograms or tonnes), which accounts for the same global warming effects of different greenhouse gases. Carbon footprints can be calculated using an online calculator.
An alternative definition of the carbon footprint is the total amount of carbon dioxide attributable to the actions of an individual (mainly through their energy use) over a period of one year. This definition underlies the personal carbon calculators. The term owes its origins to the idea that a footprint is what has been left behind as a result of the individual's activities.
Carbon footprints can either consider only direct emissions (typically from energy used in the home and in transport, including travel by cars, airplanes, rail and other public transport), or can also include indirect emissions (including CO2 emissions as a result of goods and services consumed). Bottom-up calculations sum attributable CO2 emissions from individual actions; top-down calculations take total emissions from a country (or other high-level entity) and divide these emissions among the residents (or other participants in that entity).
What Is The Air Inlet Control?
The Air Inlet Control is a manual or automatic device used to control the quantity of air supplied for combustion.
What does Airwash Mean?
Airwash is a term used for the secondary air admitted to a glass fronted fire or stove so as to be pulled down the inner surface of the window and help prevent staining of the glass.
What Is An Ashpan?
An Ashpan is a removable and receptacle shaped designed to receive the residue falling from the firebed.
What Is An Ashpit?
An Ashpit is an enclosed chamber designed to receive the residue or house the Ashpan
What Is A Baffle Plate?
A Baffle Plate also known as a Throat Plate is a plate fitted above the firebed of an appliance to slow the passage of gasses and as so increase efficiency of the appliance.
What Is A Throat Plate?
A Throat Plate also known as a Baffle Plate is a plate fitted above the firebed of an appliance to slow the passage of gasses and as so increase efficiency of the appliance.
What Is A Bottom Grate?
A bottom grate is the part of the appliance which supports the fire-bed and through which the residue falls into the ashpan or ashpit and through which combustion air and/or combustion gases may be drawn.
What Is Combustion Air?
Combustion air is the air supplied to the firebox, which is entirely or partially used to burn the fuel
What Is A Damper?
A damper is a mechanism used to change the resistance to the flow of the combustion gases.
What Is A Direct Water System?
A direct water system is a hot water system in which stored domestic hot water is heated directly by hot water circulating from the boiler.
What Is A Draught Regulator?
A draught regulator is an inlet device for admission of air downstream of the firebed, enabling the flue draught to be controlled.
What Is A Fireback?
A fireback is the brick or concrete rear part of an open fire.
What Are Firebars?
Firebars are a slotted support on which fuel is burned.
What Is A Firebed / Fuelbed?
A Firebed or Fuelbed is the fuel contained in the firebox
What Is The Firebox Opening?
The Firebox opening is the aperture in the firebox through which the appliance can be fuelled
What Is The Firebox / Combustion Chamber?
The firebox or combustion chamber is the part of the appliance in which fuel is burned.
What Is The Fire Door?
The fire door is the door through which the fire may be viewed and which may be opened to allow refuelling of the firebed
What Is Ash?
Ash is essentially all compounds that are not considered organic or water. The incombustible residue left when fuels have burned.
What Is A Chimney?
A Chimney is the whole structure encasing a flue.
What is Carbon Monoxide?
Carbon Monoxide is a colourless, odourless, highly poisonous gas, CO, formed by the incomplete combustion of carbon or carbonaceous material, which includes all solid fuels. Carbon Monoxide is denser than air, and so sinks, and very readily combines with haemoglobin in blood, thereby preventing the blood from taking up oxygen. Carbon Monoxide poisoning causes dizziness, weakness, pale skin with blue-ish lips and can rapidly be fatal if the victim is not supplied with fresh air.
What Is Anthracite?
Anthracite is a hard, compact variety of mineral coal formed at great depth over some 300 million years. It has a high lustre, the highest carbon count and contains the fewest impurities of all coals.
What Is A Basic Firebed?
A basic firebed is the quantity of glowing embers which ensures ignition of the test fuel to be charged.
What Are Boiler Waterways?
Boiler waterways are spaces within a boiler which contain water.
What Is A Back Boiler?
A boiler is a vessel in which water is heated, intended for fitting in or forming an integral part of a solid fuel appliance, whether or not water actually boils. i.e. reaches 100 Degrees C
What Is Albedo?
Albedo is a measure of the light reflectivity of a surface. Light colours will reflect light (including the infra-red light associated with heat), dark colours will absorb.
What Is A Braai?
A Braai is a type of open fire, usually inset or occasionally freestanding, with a barbeque cooking facility, fitted into a chimney breast either out of doors or indoors as part of a fireplace or kitchen units, common in Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe and South Africa. Some Braai also have convective heat.
What Is Breeze?
Breeze is a powdery coke waste.
What Is A Catalytic Converter?
In chemistry, a catalyst is a substance that decreases the amount of energy needed to initiate a chemical reaction without itself being changed at the end of the reaction. Catalytic converters in solid fuel appliances are generally a ceramic mesh doped with heavy metals such as iridium or osmium through which gases from the fire pass and which serves to reduce the temperature at which carbon is converted into carbon monoxide and on into carbon dioxide.
What Is Coke?
Coke is the sold residue of impure carbon obtained from bituminous coal and other carbonaceous materials after removal of volatile material by destructive distillation. It is used as a fuel and as a reducing agent in making steel.
What Is The Combustion Air Selector?
The combustion air selector is a device for adjusting the primary and/or secondary air according to the type of fuel burned.
What Is The Combustion Control Device?
The combustion control device is the mechanism for setting the primary and/or secondary air in accordance with the burning rate required.
What Are Combustion Gases?
Combustion gases are compounds in gaseous form produced inside an appliance when fuel is burned.
What Is Conduction?
Conduction is the transmission of, typically heat or electricity, through a material.
What Is Convection?
Convection is the motion of warm material that rises, cools off, and sinks again, producing a continuous circulation of material and transfer of heat. Enclosed heating appliances transfer heat mainly by convection.
What Is The Cord?
The Cord is a unit of dry volume used in Canada and in the United States to measure firewood. One cord is defined as 128 ft3, corresponding to a woodpile 8 ft wide x 4 ft high of 4 ft long logs.
What Is The De-Ashing Mechanism?
The De-Ashing mechanism is a device to agitate the ash to facilitate its removal from the firebed. It may also be used to change the bottomgrate operating position on some appliances.
What Is De-Ashing?
De-Ashing is the process of cleaning a Fuelbed and discharging residue into the collecting receptacle.
What Is Efficiency?
The efficiency is a ratio of the total heat output to total heat input during the test period expressed as a percentage.
What Is Meant By Energy?
The capacity to do work or vigorous activity.
What Is The Fall Plate?
The fall plate is a hinged plate constructed so as to be able to be moved to cover the fuel, to stop or to restrict combustion. Occasionally used on open fires.
What Is Fire?
Fire is the rapid release of heat energy with visible light, typically by the oxidation of fuel.
What Is A Fireplace?
A fireplace is the whole of the architectural element enclosing a heating or cooking fire.
What Is Flaunching?
Flaunching is a sloping mortar, as used to throw off water at the junction where a masonry chimney stack comes through a roof, around a chimney pot etc.
What Is A Flue?
A flue is the hole or shaft inside a chimney through which waste gases pass to the atmosphere.
What Is Flue Draught?
Flue draught is differential between the static air pressure in the place of installation and the static pressure at the flue gas: measurement point.
What Is A Flue Gas Adaptor?
A flue gas adaptor is a fitting which allows for variations in size and shape of the flue components.
What Is A Flue Gas Connector?
A flue gas connector is a duct through which flue gases are conveyed from the flue spigot of the appliance into the chimney flue.
What Is Flue Gas Mass Flow?
Flue gas mass flow is a mass of flue gas drawn off from the appliance per unit of time.
What Is The Flue Gas Temperature?
The flue gas temperature is the temperature of the flue gas at the specified point in the measurement section.
What Are Flue Gases?
Flue gases are gaseous compounds leaving the appliance flue spigot and entering the flue gas connector.
What Is A Flue Loss Analysis?
A flue loss analysis is a method of determining the performance of a heating appliance by determining the temperature and chemical composition of the waste gasses being lost into the flue, from which the efficiency and heat output can be estimated.
What Is A Flue Spigot?
A flue spigot is an integral part of the appliance for connecting the flue gas connector thus permitting the deliberate escape of products of combustion into the chimney flue.
What Is A Flueway?
A Flueway is the part of the appliance designed to convey combustion gases from the firebox to the flue spigot.
What Is A Fuel Hopper?
A fuel hopper is a fuel store integral with the appliance from which fuel is fed to the firebox.
What Is A Fuel Regulator?
A fuel regulator is a device for controlling the size of the firebed.
What Is Heat Input?
Heat input is the quantity of energy, which fuel provides to the appliance.
What Is Heat Output?
Heat output is the quantity of useful heat released by the appliance.
What Is Heat?
Heat is a form of energy associated with the motion of atoms or molecules and capable of being transmitted through solid and fluid media by conduction, through fluid media by convection, and through empty space by radiation.
What Is House Coal?
House Coal is the type of coal normally supplied for domestic use. This will vary from place to place. In Britain and Ireland it is Bituminous coal, in the USA it is anthracite.
What Is An Indirect Water System?
An indirect water system is an hot water system in which stored domestic hot water is heated by a primary heater through which hot water from: the boiler is circulated without mixing of the primary (heating) water and the stored domestic hot water.
What Is An Integral Fuel Storage Container?
An integral fuel storage container is an enclosed area forming part of the appliance, but not connected directly to the fuel charging area, in which fuel is stored prior to it being physically transferred by the user to the fuel charging position.
What Is A Kachelöfen?
A Kachelöfen is a type of German masonry stove.
What Is Kennel, Cannel?
Kennel, Cannel is a light, clean, fine-grained bituminous coal. The term may be corruption of candle because it burns without smoke. There are deposits in North America, UK, Poland, South Africa and Australia.
What Is Lignite?
Lignite is a soft brownish fuel material, intermediate between peat and bituminous coal formed over c4000 years.
What Is A Masonry Heater / Masonry Stove?
A masonry heater / stove is a type of enclosed roomheater which stores heat in a brick labyrinth. Well designed masonry stoves may only need firing for an hour or so to provide 24 hours of heating.
What Is Maximum Water Operating Pressure?
Maximum water operating pressure is limiting water pressure up to which the boiler of an appliance can be safely operated.
What Does Multifuel Mean?
Multifuel is generally an appliance capable of burning both mineral and wood fuels.
What Is Nominal Heat Output?
The nominal heat output is the total heat output of the appliance quoted by the manufacturer and achieved under defined test conditions when burning the specified test fuel.
What Is An Operating Tool?
The operating tool is a device supplied with the appliance for handling movable, adjustable and/or hot components?
What Is Peat?
Peat is a woody material which semi decomposed over about 1000 years. It is the earliest stage in the formation of coal.
What Is A Petche?
A Petche is a Russian type of masonry stove.
What Is Petcoke/Petroleum Coke?
Petcoke/Petroleum Coke is a solid fuel made from petroleum residues. High in sulphur and low in protective ash it burns with intense heat, but can damage appliance and cause high levels of atmospheric sulphuric acid
What Is Primary Air?
Primary Air is combustion air, which passes through the fuel bed.
What Is Pyrolignins?
Pyrolignins is a general term for the organic substances formed when wood partially burns.
What Is Pyrolisis?
Pyrolisis is the decomposition of a chemical compound by heat. The chemical decomposition of organic materials by heating in the absence of oxygen or other reagents. Complete Pyrolisis leaving only carbon as the residue is carbonization.
What Is A Pyrometer?
A pyrometer is any high temperature thermometer, especially optical pyrometers which estimate the temperature of an object too hot to make contact with by analysing the visible and non visible light emitted.
What Is Radiation?
Radiation is the emission and transmission of energy through space or through a material medium, or the radiated energy itself. Heat radiation travels in straight lines, requires no medium (it can travel through a vacuum) and diminishes by the square of the distance travelled.
What Is Recommended Fuel?
Recommended fuel is fuel of commercial quality listed in the appliance manufactures instructions and shown to achieve the claimed performance when tested in accordance with a standard.
What Is Recovery Capability?
Recovery capability is the ability of the fire to re-ignite existing or newly changed fuel after a defined burning period without external assistance.
What Is The Refuelling Interval?
The refuelling interval is the period of time for which the combustion may be maintained in the appliance with a single load of fuel without intervention by the user.
What Is Residue?
Residue is ashes including combustibles which collect in the ashpit.
What Is The Riddler / Riddling Mechanism?
The Riddler / Riddling Mechanism is the device to agitate the firebed and so dislodge ash.
What Is A Roomheater?
A roomheater is the preferred term for stove in British Standards.
What Is Secondary Air?
Secondary air is the sir supplied for the purpose of completing combustion of gases leaving the fuel bed.
What Is Slack?
Slack is a powdery waste coal.
What Is Slow Combustion Heat Output?
Slow combustion heat output is the heat output achieved during the test period under slow combustion conditions.
What Is Slow Combustion Capability?
Slow combustion capability is the ability of an appliance to continue operating at a low burning rate for a specified minimum period without any input of fuel and without interference with the combustion process in such a manner that the firebed can be recovered at the end of this period.
What Is Smoke?
Smoke is solid particles suspended in gas.
What Is Solid Fuel?
Solid Fuel is natural or manufactured solid mineral fuels, natural or manufactured wood logs and peat briquettes.
What Is Solid Mineral Fuel?
Solid Mineral Fuels are coal, ignite, coke and fuels derived from these.
What Is Space Heating Output?
Space heating output is the heat output provided by convection and radiation to the room.
What Is The Chimney Stack?
The chimney stack is the freestanding part of a chimney above the building it serves.
What Is A Start Up Device?
A start up device is the mechanism to divert the path of the heating gases and/or change the combustion air opening cross section during the ignition period.
What Is The Steady State Condition?
The steady state condition is the stage at which values to be measured in successive equal periods of time do not exhibit significant change.
What Is A Stove?
A stove is an appliance which heats one space, either the individual room space it is in (as with heating stoves), or just its own space (as with a cooking stove). Central heating devices, whether boilers or hot air heaters, are not stoves in that they heat not one but many spaces, yet they also emit heat into the space they themselves are in and are therefore more accurately described as stoves with central heating. The Old English stofa meant any individual enclosed space, such as a room, and is still occasionally used in that sense, as in stoved in. Until well into the 19th century stove was used to mean a single heated room, so that Joseph Banks assertion that he placed his most precious plants in the stove or René Descartes observation that he got his greatest philosophical inspiration while sitting onside a stove are not as odd as they seem.
What Is Test Fuel?
Test fuel is the fuel of commercial quality being characteristic of its type to be used for testing appliances.
What Is A Thermostat?
A thermostat is a temperature sensitive device which automatically changes the combustion air inlet cross sectional area.
What Is The Total Heat Output?
The total heat output is the rate of useful heat released by the appliance.
What Is Type Test Pressure?
Type test pressure is pressure to which all waterways of the test appliance are subjected.
What Is Water Heating Output?
Water heating output is heat output to water averaged during the test period.
What Is Wood Powder?
Wood powder is the white-ish flocculent powder left when wood had disintegrated while burning. Wood powder is not ash and if kept hot enough for long enough can be made to burn. True wood ash is brown-ish and relatively dense, sand like. High outputs of wood powder indicate a poorly designed fire.
What Are Working Surfaces?
Working surfaces are all the surfaces of an appliance designed to transmit heat to the surrounding atmosphere. All external surfaces of a heating boiler including the flue gas connector in accordance with EN standards are classified as working surfaces because they are designed to transmit heat to the room in which the appliance is installed.