CASE STUDY: Carbon Neutral Heating

The Isles of Scilly Workshops

 This system has a 16kW Fireview wood burning stove using waste wood from a nearby joinery. This heats water for a bespoke combination cylinder made by MacDonald Engineers and to a design by Stove Shop. The cylinder has a high efficiency coil to provide mains pressure domestic hot water at up to 40 litres per minute and blended to a non scald 45 centigrade. The cylinder also provides the flow to the underfloor heating manifold which in turn supplies independently controlled heat to the four workshops.

There are automatic provisions in the system controls to prevent overheating and, conversely, to avoid the system pumping water through the floor if the fire is not lit.

Stove Shop contrusted two pre wired control boxes for the installation team to ensure trouble free connection of all the electrical components on site and guarentee that the system performed as designed.

PROS:

-          If you have access to a free fuel supply the system is very economic

-          Zero emissions; burning wood is carbon neutral

-          Eligible for Feed in Tariff if used with MCS accredited equipment and installers

CONS:

-          Labour intensive – uses a lot of fue;

-          Unless you have a free fuel source, can be as expensive as electricity

-          Large equipment is necessary

GOOD FOR:

-          Next to a building site/unit that produces wood waste

The above images were taken during construction.