Started in April 2010, we wanted to heat the floor of our yurt with this innovative stove. We used the book Mass Rocket Heaters by Ianto Evans and Leslie Jackson as our starting point. They recommend that first timers DO NOT attempt to build a floor heater, but that's what we did. We are happy to report that it is working swimmingly. A fire for 4-6 hours keeps the temperature of the yurt above 70 degrees for more than 12 hours, with 40 degree temps outside. With temperatures in the 30s, the yurt is close to 60 degrees 12+ hours after the fire has gone out. It has never been colder than 50 degrees, even without a fire for several days. We wrapped 60 feet of copper pipe around the barrel inside, and this thermo-syphons to a water tank outside. Even with our low pressure situation we can take a bath. The water is slow to heat up, we plan to make a volcano of cob that will cover most of the barrel and surround most of the pipes, but that will have to wait til next summer.
held in place with cob
My house has a standard wood burning fireplace (3' wide, 2'6" tall, and ~2' deep) in my suburban living room. While a cob filled mass stove looks fascinating for my next house, it would not work here. I could put in a conventional wood burning stove for some efficiency gain, but if anyone knew of a rocket heater design that would fit into my existing fireplace? Ideally it may have an electric fan to push the heat out the fireplace and the stove pipe would go a foot into the chimney and the chimney would take the exhaust out of the house. It needs to be removable. The goal is just to take the chill off the living room after work with less wood and less pollution with a fun project, not heat the entire house. A Google search did not have any helpful results - other than a cute dog named 'Rocket' standing in front of a fireplace.
We decided to try using commonly available chimney flue pipe sizes to construct a quick and dirty masonry heater using a dragon burner as the combustion chamber. And the data charts for the build here.
Here is a list of all the rocket mass heaters and rocket stoves at wheaton labs. This was a one time thing so we could what it looked like inside the barrel.
Here are pictures of our newest build at http://www.dragonheaters.com
I'm making a rocket stove for my live in van, which is primarily used for heat, although I probably will use for boiling kettle etc. Does anyone have any pointers?.
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Here is something I find fascinating, and I'm eager to see if it works as well as they say. This is the Rocket Mass Heater. Here is the wikipedia def: A rocket stove mass heater or rocket mass heater, is a space heating system developed from the rocket stove, a type of efficient wood-burning stove and the masonry heater. Wood…
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However this has not phased me and i am still going to continue onto the larger version, i do however have a couple of questions for anyone out there who has made any type of Rocket mass heater. Will this model, scaled up actually work?.
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The Rocket Stove, a popular variety of improved combustion stoves, is an integral part of the Integrated Cooking Method. It is easy to construct, with low-cost materials. These are low-mass stoves designed to burn small pieces of wood very efficiently. Cooking is done on top of a short insulated...
Pocket Rocket Stove Heater: I will show you how to build a Pocket Rocket Stove. If you don't know what a rocket stove is, have a look at "rocketstoves.com" or search at Youtube where there are tons of very good videos to get inspiration from.
