What is a Wood Furnace Heat Exchanger?
A wood furnace liquid to liquid heat exchanger is a vital component to a wood furnace system. A wood furnace is typically used in instances where a traditional wood burning stove is just not sufficient to meet the needs of home heating. This is a larger scale implementation of wood-fired home heating and often utilizes the existing infrastructure of a fireplace. More often than not, just like a traditional furnace, if not located directly at the fireplace, the furnace unit will be located in the basement or a utility room. Like a traditional heating system, but unlike a wood burning stove, the temperature of the home is kept stable through the use of a thermostat.
These wood furnaces generally rely of air or water forced circulation to move the heat around the home, and this is where the heat exchanger comes into the proverbial equation. The heat exchanger, which is fueled by wood, is the device that is designed to conduct heat across surfaces such as water or air. The exchanger will be made of a super conductive material that is highly efficient at the transfer of heat.
Most often, a fireplace heat exchanger is used to create a wood furnace for use for home heating. This is to take advantage of already existing infrastructure, and allow for home heating using wood for an affordable price. There are three main types of different heat exchangers that can be used to convert a fireplace into a furnace for home heating which are a fireplace heat exchanger insert, a fireplace grate heat exchanger or a chimney/flue heat exchanger. These different types of exchangers are designed to promote the transfer of heat and thus make the home heating through the use of wood as efficient as possible. These devices are where the transfer of the heat occur.
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