Hi Jonathan; Big Welcome to Permies and a big welcome to Rocket science!
Quite a nice stove in that video. It obviously warms that incredible play shop they have very well.
It is nothing like a
rocket stove though. He is letting HUGE amounts of heat up and out his chimney... He isn't mentioning how much wood he burns.
On a
rocket mass heater, you
should be able to lay your hand against the exhaust pipe as it leaves the room. That means all the
energy that was contained in the wood is now heating your room...
In the video his pipe was 700F... that is a whole lot of energy being sent up the chimney!
So having said that let me touch on your idea. There is a pipe capable of being inside a rocket stove over not in the riser.
That pipe comes from rolled alloy and is called RA330 . It is capable of withstanding temps of 2100F continuous... Batchbox
rmh's run right below that temp in the riser.
Any other steel will spall and disintegrate in one or two seasons if not one or two months...
It also is crazy expensive! As an example . In my rocket stove store I
sell an 8" piece of RA330 delivered free... I charge $90 for it and I am not making much
profit at all.
Imagine the cost of 30-40 feet of that to build his stove...
So I would like to suggest that you build a 7" batchbox with a brick bell and a double barrel system.
I have exactly that in my poorly insulated auto shop in northern Montana... I wear a tee shirt out there now and before when I had a old style double barrel stove. My barrels could be glowing red and across the room a metal wrench left sitting would stick to your hand!
The whole idea of a
RMH is to save and use all that energy and not send it screaming out the chimney!