different coal stoker
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- Other Heating: kerosene for dual fuel Keystoker/unused
This vertical fire tube soft coal stoker unit is made by the www.allcanadianheaters.com
They even have a sprinkler head in the feed hopper.
I cannot upload the page that shows the boiler installation from start to finish but it is on their home page.
They even have a sprinkler head in the feed hopper.
I cannot upload the page that shows the boiler installation from start to finish but it is on their home page.
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- Member
- Posts: 2378
- Joined: Sun. Mar. 25, 2007 8:41 pm
- Location: Ithaca, New York
- Stoker Coal Boiler: Keystoker KAA-4-1 dual fuel boiler
- Hand Fed Coal Boiler: former switzer CWW100-sold
- Coal Size/Type: rice
- Other Heating: kerosene for dual fuel Keystoker/unused
The link is fixed :^)
The top tapping is four inches in diameter and the expansion tank or steel compression tank tapping which is directly across from the 4 inch tapping must be hung above the boiler shell in the ceiling of the shed where the boiler is going to be located.
The dead ash and clinkers have to be removed with an auger or a small loader due the volume of soft coal ash produced by the boiler.
The first picture of the finished stoker laying on a set of rollers does not show it well but there is an opening in the base of the boiler for the stoker head and feed auger. The feed auger has an attachment that spins the stoker head slowly to disperse the dead ash and clinkers as they come off the top of the fire.
The top tapping is four inches in diameter and the expansion tank or steel compression tank tapping which is directly across from the 4 inch tapping must be hung above the boiler shell in the ceiling of the shed where the boiler is going to be located.
The dead ash and clinkers have to be removed with an auger or a small loader due the volume of soft coal ash produced by the boiler.
The first picture of the finished stoker laying on a set of rollers does not show it well but there is an opening in the base of the boiler for the stoker head and feed auger. The feed auger has an attachment that spins the stoker head slowly to disperse the dead ash and clinkers as they come off the top of the fire.
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- Posts: 2378
- Joined: Sun. Mar. 25, 2007 8:41 pm
- Location: Ithaca, New York
- Stoker Coal Boiler: Keystoker KAA-4-1 dual fuel boiler
- Hand Fed Coal Boiler: former switzer CWW100-sold
- Coal Size/Type: rice
- Other Heating: kerosene for dual fuel Keystoker/unused
I will have to find out if we can burn anthracite in it.
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- Hand Fed Coal Stove: Warm Morning 414A
- Coal Size/Type: PEA,NUT,STOVE /ANTHRACITE
- Other Heating: Ground Source Heat Pump and some Solar
How many members need 500K btu/hr or bigger?
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Some members might find it useful. Like the guy with the town highway garage project, the welder lady with the big building in Nevada, and that fool with the oversized house in the Berkshires.
Mike
Mike
- McGiever
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- Stoker Coal Boiler: AXEMAN-ANDERSON 130 "1959"
- Hand Fed Coal Boiler: BUCKET A DAY water heater
- Hand Fed Coal Stove: Warm Morning 414A
- Coal Size/Type: PEA,NUT,STOVE /ANTHRACITE
- Other Heating: Ground Source Heat Pump and some Solar
It designed for burning bituminous coal, so that may make that list a Bit thinner.
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- Stoker Coal Boiler: H.B. Smith 350 Mills boiler/EFM 85R stoker
- Coal Size/Type: Buckwheat/anthracite
The mfgr says coal and pelletized bio-fuels, which sounds like an EFM. I guess we need to wait for a report from Leon as to what they say about anthracite.
Mike
Mike
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The coal used in the All Canadian Coal-Fired Heater (which is also the most readily available coal in Western Canada) is called sub-bituminous (b) stoker coal. Stoker coal (characterized by egg-sized lumps of coal) comes oiled (to minimize dust), and dry (un-oiled). Both oiled and dry stoker coal can be burned in the All Canadian Coal-Fired Heater.
http://www.allcanadianheaters.com/AlbertaResearch.htmlTo that end, the units are now UL listed in Canada and the United States to burn wood pellets (bio fuel) with the same dependable features developed over the years.
Can you say snow melt system...
I thought he was downsizing??!!
How about that guy that needs to thaw the ice rink in the basement of his newly purchased house??
I was also thinking about the car wash install that was talked about a couple years ago.
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- Location: Dalton, MA
- Stoker Coal Boiler: H.B. Smith 350 Mills boiler/EFM 85R stoker
- Coal Size/Type: Buckwheat/anthracite
Yes the big house was successfully downsized, but it was bought by another fool. He seemed more like a "pelletized bio-fuel" type. I was just trying to give some examples in response to McG's question, while hoping that I wasn't the only one because I still have a storage unit with a lot of "big heat" stuff in it.....
Probably putting in a lowball offer on the ice rink house at some point (yes, subject to some careful checking) but before long it should start to thaw on its own...uhhh after the 1-2 feet of snow melt from today.
Mike
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- Joined: Sun. Mar. 25, 2007 8:41 pm
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- Stoker Coal Boiler: Keystoker KAA-4-1 dual fuel boiler
- Hand Fed Coal Boiler: former switzer CWW100-sold
- Coal Size/Type: rice
- Other Heating: kerosene for dual fuel Keystoker/unused
I have not heard from alaskacoal in a while as his property was almost in the center of the last earthquake that happened up there.
I know he put more firebrick in his evergreen Sequoia model boiler and was going to put more in like I did with my switzer handfed as the boiler men that did the plumbing where he worked told him he needed firebrick to make the Sub Bituminous Usibelli coal better.
The Usibelli coal would burn well in this stoker as it is a sub bituminous coal like the coal mined in Alberta as well.
I am waiting to hear from the Canadian folks about the questions I asked of them.
I know he put more firebrick in his evergreen Sequoia model boiler and was going to put more in like I did with my switzer handfed as the boiler men that did the plumbing where he worked told him he needed firebrick to make the Sub Bituminous Usibelli coal better.
The Usibelli coal would burn well in this stoker as it is a sub bituminous coal like the coal mined in Alberta as well.
I am waiting to hear from the Canadian folks about the questions I asked of them.
- McGiever
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- Posts: 10130
- Joined: Sun. May. 02, 2010 11:26 pm
- Location: Junction of PA-OH-WV
- Stoker Coal Boiler: AXEMAN-ANDERSON 130 "1959"
- Hand Fed Coal Boiler: BUCKET A DAY water heater
- Hand Fed Coal Stove: Warm Morning 414A
- Coal Size/Type: PEA,NUT,STOVE /ANTHRACITE
- Other Heating: Ground Source Heat Pump and some Solar