Abstract:
A firebox for burning solid fuels which avoids common problems causing pollution and poor efficiency, by methods to ensure that the firebox is hot, to provide hot combustion air, to exploit radiant heat effects, by focusing surfaces, by burning heated secondary air on the face of a reactor. The reactor also serves to meter secondary air to suit fire size. The firebox per se is not a complete stove; it requires the addition of a heat exchanger which may be to air or hydronic, integral or remote, and which in turn is amenable to variations in design.