Wood Gasification Boilers
Wood Gasification Furnaces
Wood Gasification is not new technology. With an already efficient water furnace /boiler such as the Portage & Main Family of products, wood gasification allows the operator to get even greater efficiency, economy and production of useable heat.
Consider the reasons for buying the efficient P&M Wood Gasification Water Furnace or boiler or as the American Environmental Protection Agency has classified these heating units as Outdoor Wood Hydronic Heaters.
Several comparative evaluations, by your peers who operated another brand of outdoor boiler before switching to a Portage & Main Wood Gasification Unit , have realized up to 70% reduction of wood consumption at the same location and heat load. For example, as one goes to their woodlot to harvest their heat source supplies imagine for a moment:
If you cut the same amount of wood as you did last year for brand X, you now have wood for at least two seasons, when you use a P&M Wood Gasification Furnace. This ensure excellent woodlot management; there will be wood for future generations. It also means that you have cut two years amount of wood; so the second year's supply, provided it is stacked and covered, will be well seasoned dry wood. Dry seasoned wood is the key to successful operation of any wood burning furnace. Why would one want to work against himself, by using the first non-seasoned log to dry the second log, so it can produces your btu's of heat?
Besides the monetary savings, less wood burnt means lower emissions and less smoke. Your family and neighbors are both happier-especially anyone that already suffers with allergy or asthma contaminates in the air.
The super efficient design of P&M Gasification Units extracts more useable heat from less wood. This heat is delivered to the building in a steady uniform manner. Proper heat distribution designs give your building no hot or cold spots.
The operation and maintenance of your wood gasification boiler happens outside the home. No wood, sawdust or ashes in your home. Your wife is going to love it.
P&M Wood Gasifiers are efficient, economical, environmentally and user friendly. They give independence from foreign country fossil fuels. In the light of North American recession why should we send our funds to Russia and the Middle East?
The clean burning Portage & Main Furnace Family has an excellent variety of sizes that are able to provide your complete heating needs: home, shops, pools, hot tubs; business-farm, greenhouse, restaurants, show rooms,; connecting to existing systems or installing in new constructions.
THE OPTIMIZER 250 --Wood Gasification Unit
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Portage & Main Outdoor Water Furnace Wood Gasifiers
The Portage & Main Wood Gasifier Units use a process called wood gasification resulting in highly efficient combustion in the furnace's dual burn chambers. Wood in the firepot burns from the bottom up, drying the top layer of wood in the firepot. Gases and exhaust are forced into the lower burn refractory brick lined chamber where gases are burned at temperatures of 2000 degrees plus. (Varies based on the fuel type, burn rate and other conditions). Maximum heat extraction is achieved as the gases pass through one vertical pass and two horizontal reverse return passes. (This was the most efficient design of boilers 150 years ago and is still the most efficient design today.) Optimal heat extraction save both work and cost involved with wood heat.
The optimal refractory brick lining in both burn chambers results in high burn chamber temperatures for consistent proper gas combustion. The high temperature gas combustion significantly reduces emissions, prevents creosote build-up and minimizes ash build-up in the unit. The exhaust air passes through the burn chamber before exiting through multiple flues running through the water jacket, heating the water quickly and efficiently. The Wood Gasification units incorporate the existing features of the conventional Portage & Main Wood Unit—longevity, reliability, and efficiency plus adds great features to the gasification units.
Portage & Main Outdoor Water Furnaces Have Been Providing
Warmth and Comfort For Families and Businesses Since 1973
After over 30 years of manufacturing the best designed, most efficient conventional wood outdoor water boiler, we are pleased to introduce Wood Gasification Unit built with the same quality innovative design and time proven concepts that have been around for almost 200 years.
Key Benefits
- EPA best test results has maximum burns of 85% efficiency.
- Approved EPA phase two white tagged.
- Virtually smoke free; the Portage & Main Outdoor Water Furnaces are called the "no smoke boiler".
- Clean efficient burns give clean heat.
- Highly efficient
- Economical heating
- Hydronic heating system
Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Vermont regulate outdoor boilers. Outdoor hydronic heaters must meet the EPA qualifications. Portage & Main Outdoor Water Furnaces--Optimizer 250 models are EPA phase 2 qualified; therefore meet the qualifications required for these states.
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