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by Go2Zero » Thu. Jan. 30, 2014 2:46 am
Something I am familiar with - a young product spreading its way through internet gossip, is a new design of chimney cowl, invented by a New Zealander. It targets the inversion condition and how it causes negative pressure, typically on a normal vertical, cylindrical flue pipe. NIL has been researched at this end, as far as emissions and efficiency is concerned. He has had a hard time, in conflict with future projected investments in alternative fuels and the appliance selling industry itself. The original UL standard that went national ignored everything from the flue connection upward and didn't test for winter conditions. Good, optimum - clean combustion requires ventilation that addresses the negative impact of inversion. It cannot all be fixed inside the appliance. The environmentalists all sing in chorus about inversions trapping smoke, and are clueless in regards to the inversion causing it. The appliance manufacturers couldn't care - not their problem. Shove a green sponsored catalytic combustor in it and voila! Oddly the regulators still continue their anti-wood 'burning' social marketing regimes for natural gas fuel expansionism. Wood - biomass (if you'd rather) is environmentally cleaner hands down. It's the technique that makes the method clean, not the fuel. Biomass looks good. It grows trees, managers and diversifies plantations - can be self sufficient, and with all the right elements applied to the technique, it is very clean as well as sustainable. A conventional burner with a vertical cylindrical flue needs a pressure differential on the terminal to keep the vacuum conditions consistent inside the flue/ exhaust. Without it the optimum combustion conditions will always be compromised by naturally forming, winter inversion negative pressure. To address down draft, blow back, creosote, sooted up catalytics and remaining smoke issues do something the EPA, Omni, and the HPBA are failing consumers at doing. Look at the external ventilation in respect to the weather conditions.
that was perfect!! 
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