I will be building my rockety type stove outside, on wheels to avoid issues with the man, and my insurance company.
I want to bring the heat inside, and distribute it throughout my modest two story.
I have been leaning towards using
water as a transfer and storage medium, and my existing blower to distribute the heat around the house.
To avoid boom-squish, I would use an open system and t&p valves.
At what point in the system
should a coil or water jacket be introduced?
The barrel is the first place heat is extracted in a "conventional" mass heater rocket, but apparently the combustion is still taking place,so taking too much heat
energy away at this point is nono.
And yet the principles of the device seem to require some heat loss at this point, otherwise , why not insulate the barrel as well?
I am wondering, is the draw created by the heat riser strong
enough to push the exhaust into a container of water, and if so, would the exhaust efficentlt transfer the heat energy it contains to the water, while being filtered in the process?
Think of a huge water bong without any giant dude to suck on the end...
I did considering running the exhaust itself into a thermal mass inside the house, but the man , the insurance company and
moma all object to pushing any form of exhaust into our house..
An air(exhaust) to air(house) system would let me capture the heat, but less efficiently, and with more bulk.
The only way I see going that way is as part of a passive solar/greenhouse setup , where the
RMH is in the
greenhouse anyway...
I did view the waterjacketed RH
video, a while ago. Can't remember where their jacket was placed, but they managed to get away with siphoning that heat off, and still getting a clean burn.
Guess I will have to go back and check, but not right now...
