Pellet Stove: what is it, how it works and convenience
In these times marked by the economic crisis every opportunity to save a few euro should not be overlooked, is the case of pellet stoves, which in recent years have seen increased enormously in their sales. But it is really cheap pellet stove? Let us first say a few words about how they work and their fuel pellets. The pellet has the form of a small cylinder woody; obtained from sawdust (scraps of wood), by subjecting specific machinery, to very high pressures. The cylinders derived from it are held together by a natural substance found in wood and called "lignin", a product so completely natural and ecological. It should be noted that before the advent of the pellets, waste wood processing were thrown.
Operation and specialty stores
The stove requires a routine cleaning of the brazier and emptying the ash tray (if present); depending on the type of stove also exists the possibility of having to make a special cleaning of other parts of the heater. The discourse of cleanliness is very important with regard to pellet stove, since, from the smooth running of cleaning depends on the proper functioning of the stove. Most importantly, always up for a good stove operation, the choice of the type of pellet to be used, a pellet of poor quality may result, in addition to having a bad yield, the formation of scale which should be to affect the operation of the stove.
Consumption Pellet Stove
Taking into consideration a stove medium heat output, say from 10 Kwh, useful to heat a room of 50/60 square meters and keeping it on medium power for about 12 hours, the consumption is around 15 kg of pellets; calculating the average price a lot of pellets at around 3.50 Euros, we can determine this amount as that consumed in a day pellet heating. Of course, increasing the power and the operation time consumption can rise up to 4 to 4.5 EUR per day.
Cleaning pellet stove
When should the pellet stove
E 'must first make it clear that a normal pellet stove alone can not heat an entire apartment of 100 square meters, even if you purchase an oven very powerful, the result would be to have the room where the stove is positioned very hot and the rest lukewarm (at best). To be able to heat an entire apartment is necessary to buy a pellet stove canalized, ie with the possibility of sending hot air in all the rooms through the preparation of specific channels, but in this case the expenditure would rise and not of little.
We can say that a normal pellet stove is best suited for heating a single room, also of 80 sqm, logically depends on the power of the stove. E 'therefore suitable for those who need to heat one or two rooms adjoining, where he spends most of the winter days, the sleeping area could be heated an hour before going to bed, even with the traditional method of methane .. .. needless to keep her warm all day if not used.
So, for those who live in a small apartment or house (no more than 80 square meters), the pellet stove could represent an ideal solution and a 'good alternative to expensive natural gas, saving even a few hundred Euros in a single winter. If your home is over 80 square meters, it is unthinkable to predict heat it with a pellet stove, however powerful it may be, the heat can not spread easily through the inner doors of the apartment and as I said, there is a risk of overheating the environment in which it is located to the stove and have the other rooms cold. Then you are likely to have the stove at peak and thus influencing negatively on the life of the stove.
Autonomy pellet stove
One of the merits of the pellet stove is that you can fill the tank in the morning and then forget about it for the rest of the day. Assuming the use of a heater power medium-low, around 10 Kwh, with an operation under a medium, the heater should have a range of 12-13 hours. This element which makes her prefer the wood stove and his constant need to be charged, not to mention the fact that every time you load a wood stove there is a leakage of smoke and ash with consequent effects on the hygiene of walls interior.
Conversely, it must be said that, unfortunately, in the case of lack of electrical current, the pellet stove, contrary to that wood, is unusable.
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