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A
woodburning stove with a back boiler can
be docked to a Heat Pump
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Bringing
fire into your home in the form of a wood burning
stove can be hugely rewarding, not only will
it give your home character and serve as a
focal point for any room but also as a means
of providing heat for the whole building.
Wood burning stoves are brilliant, they too are considered to be a
carbon neutral fuel because during its life time the wood will have
consumed far more carbon than it will ever release when it is burnt.
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If
you’re a man you probably like making fire!
It’s natural and it’s warm and there’s
something hypnotic about it; man has made fire
for centuries, think of it as ‘natures
TV’.
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Wood
burners convert wood (which is often free
from the environment around us) into heat
for our homes. The only problem with them
is that the heat generated is generally confined
to the particular room or section of the
house the wood burning stove is in. They
also have little in the form of temperature
control which can result in overheating in
that room.
With
some cleaver design we are able to overcome
these problems; by docking the burner with
your heat pump system we are able to harness
all the energy created by the stove and transfer
the heat around the house where it is wanted,
this will in turn help to keep the room it
is situated in from overheating.
The diagram below shows a heat pump and thermal store system docked
with solar thermal panels and
a wood burning stove. This is a very clever and efficient way of
heating your home.
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About
the heat pump - wood burning stove - solar
thermal system
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 Because
this is a vented system and not pressurised
the store is safe to use with a wood burning
stove
Energy
put into the store from whatever source can be
used for both heating and hot water
There
is no requirement for a pressure and temperature
relief valve, there is therefore no need to design
safe discharge facilities into the property
A
thermal store can operate with less “on-peak” top
up than an unvented
cylinder when heat pumps are used as the
main energy input.
As
we require energy to meet the demand of the house
a larger stove can be used than if we were just
heating a room. This means you can use bigger,
longer logs which means less time spent processing
and moving your wood and more time enjoying the
fire!
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Super
cheap and super efficient
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The
only heat source in this system that requires
electricity (apart from the minimal amount
used by the pump in the solar thermal circuit)
is the heat pump
Add Solar
PV and we can create a totally
free system
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