Rocket Stove Warmed Up (No Smoke)

This is the Rocket Stove warmed up and smoke free...starting to put out some heat. The wood strips burn down into the fire. Rusty spot on the top of the barrel is the hottest part of the heater. You can put a skillet on it for cooking...

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Howto & Style

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• Rocket
• stove
• wood
• burning
• smokeless
• heater

[kenfo0]

The other thing that strikes me about these is that people assume "no smoke" equals no pollution, which really isn't true. For example, I was testing a sawdust stove (small scale). It burned with practically no smoke for the amt of heat it generated. BUT the fumes were TERRIBLE and likely had all kinds of noxious stuff in it. It all depends on what you are burning, for one. I see people burning scrap wood that likely has been chemically treated. Be careful.

[calionstallion]

@kenfo0 These are strips of oak. I don't think they are chemically treated. I wouldn't want to breath exhaust fumes... but when this heater is warmed up you never see smoke..a lot of people around here have wood stoves that smoke. I call them "smokers". We are going to put together one more from stovepipe, just because we already bought the materials. I am ready to try to make an insulative brick combustion chamber that should last longer.

[calionstallion]

I made the combustion part of the stove using 6 inch stove pipe. You basically make a J and insert the long side of the J through the bottom of the barrel. The short side of the J is where you feed your firewood....I used a T instead of an L to be able to clean out the ashes.

The heat goes out the top of the J, hits the top of the barrel and then goes down and escapes through the L connected to the side of the barrel...

I hope this helped.

[fixt100]

if you pause it and look thats actuall a design they use on rocket mass heaters just minus any kind of heat battery

[Landotter1]

Very instructive... all 15 seconds of it....

[kenfo0]

@calionstallion I have an old wood stove. It smokes like a choo=choo train. I am experimenting with other methods, or may buy a newer stove. I am fascinated by the idea of storing energy and releasing it steadily. Wood stoves make absurd promises on "burn times". I am crunching how to use a highly efficient wood stove to store energy and release it steadily over time, such that there is not such a "peak and trough" heating. Good luck with your project.

[paulwheaton12]

is it welded?

[shannonnorfolk]

how did you build it?