Pellet Stoves & Inserts
With skyrocketing oil prices, the cost of heating homes is jumping off the charts. The Department of Energy expects heating bills to be 27 percent higher this winter for people who heat with oil and 15.2 percent higher for those who heat with natural gas. In cold-winter climates, this number will be closer to 30 percent. What can you do?
Some homeowners are turning to pellet stoves to provide supplemental (or in some cases, primary) heat. Pellet stoves look similar to wood stoves or fireplace inserts, but the similarities end there. Inside, they are very sophisticated combustion appliances.
ADVANTAGES OF PELLETS
As the name suggests, pellet stoves burn "pellets." These actually are recycled sawdust, wood shavings, corn, walnut and peanut shells, and similar biomass wastes that are ground up, compressed and extruded. The 3/8-inch to 1-inch-long pellets look like rabbet feed, and they're sold in manageable 40-pound bags. Some pellet stoves are also designed to burn corn kernels, nutshells, and wood chips.
Pellets and related fuels turn wastes that would otherwise be dumped at landfills into energy, lessening our dependence on oil.
Both because of the fuel's consistency and because of the stove's combustion mechanics, pellets burn very hot. This means they burn more efficiently and cleaner than wood. Intense compression squeezes the moisture out of pellets, dropping their moisture content to below 8%, which is very dry compared to cord wood that has from 20% to 30% moisture. The dryer the fuel, the more heat it can produce. And the high-temperature fire burns more of the fuel. Compared to EPA-certified wood stoves that give off about 5 grams of particulates per hour, pellet stoves have very low particulate emissions, some far less than 1 gram per hour.
Ambassador Piping carries a variety of Pellet Stoves in both freestanding and fireplace inserts by Breckwell and Napoleon.
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To help you with determining the correct size of insert for your fireplace, download this form (1.4MB) in Adobe Acrobat Format that will allow you to chart out the necessary measurements that you need to take.
To download the form to your computer, right click on it and select Save Target As.
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