To solve the problem with heating a country house, when there is no possibility to install a gas boiler, it is possible with the help of a furnace with a water circuit. It is a compromise between heating the house and creating a beautiful fireplace with an open fire, which you can contemplate while in the room.
Features of furnaces with a water circuit for giving
The main feature of this heater is a uniform heat distribution and simultaneous heating of several rooms at once. Moreover, such a heating system significantly saves money, because it is very economical.
The principle of operation of a furnace with a water circuit for heating the house is quite simple. First, water passes through the heat exchanger, heating there from the energy of combustion of the fuel, then it enters the radiators, gives off heat and returns to the furnace.
In other words, such a furnace is similar to a boiler that operates on solid fuel. However, unlike him, she herself gives heat to the room. The process of recuperation of heat continues even after complete combustion of the fuel. And since other solid fuel equipment is usually expensive, a water loop oven is an ideal option for a country house.
Heating with a coolant benefits in many ways from stove heating. First of all, this is due to the inability to heat the oven with remote rooms, whereas with the water circuit the heating of the entire house is uniform.
Water, as is known, has an excellent specific heat, because it receives and transmits a large amount of heat over long distances. In addition, water is not toxic and is always available.
Advantages and disadvantages of furnaces with a water circuit
Among the advantages of such heating equipment:
- compact dimensions and external aesthetics;
- ease of maintenance;
- affordable fuel;
- environmental friendliness - when burning wood or pellets in the environment, almost no harmful substances are released;
- autonomy - you are in no way dependent on the gas main;
- durability of the structure.
Disadvantages much less:
- a lower efficiency in comparison with a gas or diesel boiler;
- manual control of wood-burning stoves, however this does not apply to furnaces that work on pellets.
Types of furnaces with a water circuit
Depending on the fuel used, the furnaces with a water circuit differ slightly. Thus, a heating wood-fired oven with a water circuit for a house is a steel container with thick walls (4-8 mm), with two chambers for combustion and afterburning.
The second chamber is supplied with hot air to completely burn out the firewood. Inside such a furnace, an aqueous circuit is installed, where the water is heated during the passage through the exhaust gas channels.
The slow burning furnace with a water circuit works somewhat differently. In contrast to wood-burning stoves, which warm water only in the process of burning wood, they have a design that allows you to take heat from exhaust gases.
Pellet stoves with water
Fireplaces with a water circuit of this type have a closed firebox and are equipped with a combustion control system and a water heating temperature. All these automatic feeding and control systems became possible due to the same dimensions of artificially created pellets. And due to the closed firebox, in such furnaces and in the entire heating system, the efficiency is increased.