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Peter van den Berg 4 inch Minnie Mouse rocket mass heater

 
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Good Morning from across the pond. My first post on Rocket Stoves, Hello to all.
I have a small hut 7' 6" x 18'. No insulation to date. Old wood stove has finally collapsed.
Am very interested in the Minnie Mouse heater / stove, 4" J style in bell, built by Peter Van de Berg at a get together in Montana, have searched the net For more information without success, only one or two photos and a brief description of build by Peter on this forum. Ianto Evans book does not show such a build. It seems to be a relatively easy build for me bearing in mind age and physical ability. Most important it has a small footprint.
Three questions.

1) For the 'Minnie Mouse' Can I use a barrel smaller than the 55 gallon mentioned and still line it with brick for internal mass?
2) I have read that the heat riser is cut down, how far should it come towards the top of the barrel?
3) Alternatively if I cast a 4' batch box for the 'Fat Rabbit' how far could I reduce the size of barrel?

Be most grateful for any advice am not up to speed with the maths or science.
Thankyou
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I just found this thread.   If you are still watching this thread, I'll see if I can get Peter's attention to answer questions.

There is some video of this as peter and I discuss some design issues in DVD 3 of the new 4-DVD set Better Wood Heat:  DIY Rocket Mass Heaters.


Here is a picture of Minnie Mouse in her new home, the love shack:




I'm not finding pictures of her construction.  

So I fired up DVD 3 of "better wood heat" and grabbed a couple of frames and am attaching them here:


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peter explains how the minnie mouse rocket mass heater works
 
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Here is minnie mouse when she was first introduced to the red cabin:



Ernie and Erica came by to test her out and decided that even though the inner bricks would probably keep any paint from burning off the barrel, they wanted to be absolutely sure.   So they removed all the paint and put her back in:



You can see it in this video:




You need to keep in mind that while this structure is "insulated", it is not insulated particularly well.  In fact, the floor is not insulated.  If you look at the floor, you can see the ground outside through the floor boards.   And if the sun is out, you can even see the ground under the floor boards is illuminated!

But rocket mass heaters tend to still do pretty good in uninsulated stuff!   But minnie mouse does not have a lot of mass compared to other rocket mass heaters.  So people would come, and fire her up and she would warm the space quickly, but people were typically cold in the morning.

Kirk Mobert, one of our rocket mass heater innovators, came and stayed in the red cabin.   He was about to build a new tiny house rocket mass heater in the love shack, and then decided that the best path would be to move minnie mouse to the love shack.   The love shack is smaller and better insulated.  

When Peter van den Berg arrived for the 2017 rocket mass heater workshop jamboree, minnie mouse had not yet been fully installed into the love shack.   He looked inside and said "somebody moved the bricks!"   He also had some ideas for improvements.   So he went to work and now minnie mouse has much more mass inside.  Plus, the improvements made it so minnie mouse has an internal heat shield, so the wood aesthetic doesn't need to be covered up.

Here she is working hard in her new home:



Kirk is staying in the love shack now and reports that the Minnie Mouse is now performing really well.






 
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Many thanks for remembering Paul. In Fact when there were no replies I emailed Peter in Holland and he came up with some answers.
It's installed in my hut. J tube at present with no brick lining as yet. Working like a little wonder. Am thinking of making a Batch Box. With casserole door. I hope I can get away with using the same barrel. 45 Gallons English measurement.
, what do you all think.
I hope your Jamboree went well.
All the Best
Anne
 
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Anne Christgau wrote:It's installed in my hut. J tube at present with no brick lining as yet.



Pictures?

 
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These are some comments from http://batchrocket.eu/en/building#bellsizing      as you know, a batch monster is different from a j channel, so you may need to rethink any changes



The correct sizing of the bell was hard won by experimentation, and like all open source projects contributions came from many different people. Klemen Urbanija from Radomlje, Slovenia found out after a lot of tinkering that a 15 cm (6") system with a single bell with an internal surface area of 6 m² (64.6 sq ft), excluding the floor, gave an exhaust temperature 60 ºCelsius (140 ºFahrenheit). He built his experiment outside the house and changed it several times until the results were satisfying, then he tore it down and moved it inside the house. A new round of problems emerged due to the chimney stack being made of bricks, which extracted heat from the exhaust thereby killing the draw. This needed more tinkering and rebuilding of the bell in order to raise the exhaust temperature and restore the draw. The final result was a figure of 5.3 m² (57 sq ft) of 'heat absorption area'. This is important to grasp, and once grasped it can be seen that the floor area of the bell will not be part of the 'heat absorption area' as the flue exits above it. Equally, if the firebox is built into the bell then the surface area of the firebox within the bell won't play a role in calculating this area as no heat is absorbed there.

The term we use for the total area available for heat absorption within the bell is ISA, short for Internal Surface Area. As noted, this does not include the floor area as that floor does not (directly) absorb heat. The difference between a steel bell which is shedding its heat immediately and one that is storing heat in a mass of stone or brick is marginal in terms of ISA. My workshop heater (see article Three barrel batch rocket) is built out of three oil barrels which together are very close to the same ISA as Klemen's masonry bell and bench. Both systems have a comparable exhaust temperature.

Scaling up of these numbers posed a long-standing problem which was finally solved in 2015. It turned out that the same critical dimension used to scale the size of fireboxes up or down, the cross sectional area of the heat riser, can also be used to scale the bell ISA up and down from the base result determined by Klemen. 2015 was the year that the bell with two cul-de-sac benches was built during the MHA meeting (see article Bell with dead-end benches). The maximum ISA of that 20 cm (8") system and a masonry bell without chimney bypass turned out to be 9.4 m² (101 sq ft). The ratio of Klemen's heat riser CSA to the MHA riser CSA was 1 : 1.77, and the same ratio of 1 : 1.77 appeared in both ISAs. We had found it!

As a consequence we can use the following 'table', and simply extrapolate or interpolate as required. As far as we know, this method works within reasonable limits in both directions.

Riser diameter   /   Internal Surface area

   12.5 cm  (5")   ISA 3.7 m²    (39.8 sq ft)
   15.0 cm  (6")   ISA 5.3 m²    (57 sq ft)
   17.5 cm  (7")   ISA 7.2 m²    (77.5 sq ft)
   20.0 cm  (8")   ISA 9.4 m²    (101 sq ft)
   22.5 cm  (9")   ISA 11.4 m²  (123 sq ft)
   25.0 cm  (10") ISA 14.7 m²  (158 sq ft)
 
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I just now saw another pic of the minnie mouse when it was first being built:





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Morning Paul Thanks for the photos of Minnie Mouse. Sorry we have none of our hut stove, My build was very messy and it worked well. But the fitting of the firebox and riser into the barrel was a bit makeshift even I have to admit, so Peter has removed the firebox and riser ( he has just told me) refining them as only you men can do!!!. And then putting in the bricks for mass. Should Bricks be all fire bricks, or firebricks lower down and ordinary ones above. I think we will be giving the batch box a miss for the time being, but it's not out of our mind. I will take photos and post them to you when all is done.

Thanks
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bob day wrote:These are some comments from http://batchrocket.eu/en/building#bellsizing      as you know, a batch monster is different from a j channel, so you may need to rethink any changes



The correct sizing of the bell was hard won by experimentation, and like all open source projects contributions came from many different people. Klemen Urbanija from Radomlje, Slovenia found out after a lot of tinkering that a 15 cm (6") system with a single bell with an internal surface area of 6 m² (64.6 sq ft), excluding the floor, gave an exhaust temperature 60 ºCelsius (140 ºFahrenheit). He built his experiment outside the house and changed it several times until the results were satisfying, then he tore it down and moved it inside the house. A new round of problems emerged due to the chimney stack being made of bricks, which extracted heat from the exhaust thereby killing the draw. This needed more tinkering and rebuilding of the bell in order to raise the exhaust temperature and restore the draw. The final result was a figure of 5.3 m² (57 sq ft) of 'heat absorption area'. This is important to grasp, and once grasped it can be seen that the floor area of the bell will not be part of the 'heat absorption area' as the flue exits above it. Equally, if the firebox is built into the bell then the surface area of the firebox within the bell won't play a role in calculating this area as no heat is absorbed there.

The term we use for the total area available for heat absorption within the bell is ISA, short for Internal Surface Area. As noted, this does not include the floor area as that floor does not (directly) absorb heat. The difference between a steel bell which is shedding its heat immediately and one that is storing heat in a mass of stone or brick is marginal in terms of ISA. My workshop heater (see article Three barrel batch rocket) is built out of three oil barrels which together are very close to the same ISA as Klemen's masonry bell and bench. Both systems have a comparable exhaust temperature.

Scaling up of these numbers posed a long-standing problem which was finally solved in 2015. It turned out that the same critical dimension used to scale the size of fireboxes up or down, the cross sectional area of the heat riser, can also be used to scale the bell ISA up and down from the base result determined by Klemen. 2015 was the year that the bell with two cul-de-sac benches was built during the MHA meeting (see article Bell with dead-end benches). The maximum ISA of that 20 cm (8") system and a masonry bell without chimney bypass turned out to be 9.4 m² (101 sq ft). The ratio of Klemen's heat riser CSA to the MHA riser CSA was 1 : 1.77, and the same ratio of 1 : 1.77 appeared in both ISAs. We had found it!

As a consequence we can use the following 'table', and simply extrapolate or interpolate as required. As far as we know, this method works within reasonable limits in both directions.

Riser diameter   /   Internal Surface area

   12.5 cm  (5")   ISA 3.7 m²    (39.8 sq ft)
   15.0 cm  (6")   ISA 5.3 m²    (57 sq ft)
   17.5 cm  (7")   ISA 7.2 m²    (77.5 sq ft)
   20.0 cm  (8")   ISA 9.4 m²    (101 sq ft)
   22.5 cm  (9")   ISA 11.4 m²  (123 sq ft)
   25.0 cm  (10") ISA 14.7 m²  (158 sq ft)



Thankyou Bob for the brief history, re Batch Box and sizing. I copied Peter V D B Minnie Mouse Stove as far as I could from photos and sizes he gave. All was good. I take on board what you say re batch box and will leave that to the not too distant future ( tongue in cheek). Thanks again
Anne
 
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see more of minnie mouse:

 
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More details on Peter's "Minnie Mouse"



 
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How about creating some kind of a spiral with the exaust pipe and adding more mass on top of the barrel for more heat efficiency?
 
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Sander Krijnen wrote:How about creating some kind of a spiral with the exaust pipe and adding more mass on top of the barrel for more heat efficiency?



Adding mass to the top seems like a really good idea to me.  
 
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paul wheaton wrote:

Sander Krijnen wrote:How about creating some kind of a spiral with the exaust pipe and adding more mass on top of the barrel for more heat efficiency?



Adding mass to the top seems like a really good idea to me.  



I have been adding mass to a portable ceramic propane heater ( the mouse is next when I get enough space ).

The simplest would be to add a big pressure cooker filled with water on top of the stove.  The down side being steam and dampness.

Iron has 80% the same thermal storage as water by volume.   I stacked up some iron weights above the heater, and an upside down cast iron skillet to act as a bell.    Any iron should do well enough.  With about 70 lbs of iron there is no longer a hot spot on the ceiling ( it's warm, but not hot), and the heat tends to stay around a lot longer.   70 lbs of iron works about as well as about a gallon + of water for storing thermal energy.

I'm currently also work on PCM  Phase change materials.   There is about as much energy require to melt water ice as it takes to boil 0 degree water.   Water however... boom squish, and freezing problems.   Oils and waxes however, as long as you can keep them from burning, might just do the trick for producing gentle heat around the 70 F range... like where humans tend to like to live.  

I'm guessing estate sales might be a good pace to find cheap stackable iron, maybe scrap yards.

 
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The love shack is now fully insulated.  

Minnie mouse has been tested many times.  

There is a fire at night bringing the temp up to 75 and the temp in the morning is about 55.  I feel this is too cold.  I have some ideas on how we might improve this, but first I want to get very exact numbers to work with - including outdoor temps.

Currently there is angle iron on the top, complete with a stack of rocks to add some mass.  

Idea 1:  cork it.  When the fire is out, cork the wood feed.   If this works, then the next thing is to develop an even better cork!

idea 2:  Add a cob blow hole mass.  This would be shaped a bit like a foot high cob cylinder to be placed on top of the barrel to replace the rocks.  There would be no cob over the hottest point of the barrel top.  There would be an opening from that point to the back of the barrel.  And the cylinder would have a 4 inch opening running up the mass in the middle - over the hottest part, then making a 90 degree turn near the top of the cylinder to go out the front.   The idea is that air would move over the hottest part of the barrel and get pushed out the front.  Also, the cob mass would have a lot of direct contact with the top of the barrel to store that heat in the mass conductively.  This would make for less heat to go into the love shack during the burn, as it is getting stored into the mass - so the operator is encouraged to burn a longer fire.   And then more stored heat is released over the next 12 hours.  Plus we would be making sure that cob does not touch the middle of the barrel which could make that part of the barrel too hot.




 
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blow hole mass.

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Magdalene said she got it up to 85 last night and it was 68 this morning.  And it was below freezing this morning.
 
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Outside low temp last night:  33.

Her report about last night and this morning:

51° start @7:30

62° @ 8:45, 549° cherry, 200° lower exhaust, 120° top of exhaust, 180° front of barrel, 155° on sides of barrel

72° @9:30, 575° cherry, 255° lower exhaust, 142° upper exhaust, 203° front of barrel, 160° sides of barrel

80° @10:15 after corking, 625° cherry, 285° lower exhaust, 140° upper exhaust, 190° sides of barrel, 220° center of barrel

Photos included to show the points at which I measured  

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On the phone with mud right now ...

We agree that we want to see out of this is that you get everything warmed up to 75 at night and wake up to something like 69 in the morning.  And when you come the next night, it might be 64 inside.  

Therefore, everything is peachy - we just need more mass.

We agree on three steps to try next.  Do the first two steps now and see if we want to try the third step later.

Step 1:  Move those two blocks together - so they are touching right over the cherry.   Dry stack a lot of smaller rocks on top of those two rocks making the total dry stack about 2.5 times taller than it is now.   The smaller rocks will be about a quarter of the size of these big rocks.  Or smaller.

Step 2:  Dry stack a bunch of smaller rocks (the size of "smaller rocks" in step 1) around the back and sides of minnie mouse.  

Step 3:  (do this only if steps 1 and 2 are not enough) Dry stack around the front of minnie mouse.  

 
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Magdalene says that the interior temp this morning was 68 degrees.
 
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Wonderful stove! I live in a tiny house which is very well insulated, its an ice truck container, and I need a small rocket stove to heat up the 12m² during the mild Mediterranean winter. I fell in love with Minnie as soon as I saw that its all consisted in one barrel basically. It would fit perfectly in my home.

1. I was wondering what is the poured concrete-like material on the bottom of the big barrel and, I presume, inside the smaller barrel?

2. Would it be ok to put chamotte bricks inside since I have quite a few of them?

3. Its a 4 inch system, so I should size openings and J tube dimension accordingly?

4. Does the metal feed pipe reach all the way to the riser, and then riser is just ceramic fiber board, or is the burn chamber insulated as well?

I'm hoping to build it before my girlfriend comes back to a cold house, which should be in a few weeks time So, any help is welcome, I just want to make my girlfriend not freeze

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Dry fitting everything before welding and cementing

Here`s a video of the design:

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I plan to insulate the flue using a 4cm larger rain gutter and rock wool and leave 3cm of the flue pipe exposed at the top. Hopefully it will create a difference in temperature in the flue since it should be exposed to the heat dispersing from the top and help with the drag.

I also plan to add a vertical square metal plate in the feeder to act as a P channel.

I will post some photos after the welding is done.

The riser is ceramic fiberboard, two layers of 15mm, total of 30mm.

I also planned to try to incorporate an oven on top in a style of Sač or Peka, but made from refractory cement to adapt to the rocket stove top. I plan to take the whole stove outside for the spring, summer and autumn to use for cooking and baking.
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OK, so Ive built it!

https://youtube.com/shorts/u5VQbG56kYU?feature=share

I made a 15mm ceramic fiber board L box as shown in the picture, attached it to the metal feeder and surrounded it with chamotte bricks from an old school electric TA (Thermal Accumulation) or mass heater. I ended up not using any mortar, all the bricks are just stacked so that everything can be easily disassembled, rebuilt, and moved. This is my first rocket stove build and I am so happy with it. Everything works great so far, Ive only built it today. I will rearrange bricks to allow better air flow and possibly add more. I live in a big vineyard and olive grove and I always have a lot of branches and sticks and since I live in a tiny house, a truck refrigerator container unit with good insulation, its a perfect fit. Thanks to Peter and everyone at permies, I really appreciate everything you're doing.
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what do you think about replacing the j with a batchbox or a dsr, do you think it's possible?
 
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a video showing an update to this rocket mass heater, now with a cob hat

 
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