What is catalytic combustor?
A catalytic combustor lowers the temperature at which particles and gasses begin to burn. With a Catalyst, wood smoke begins burning at 500° F instead of 1000°F. The catalytic combustor is a ceramic honeycomb, filled with long rectangular tubes, or “cells”.
What is a catalytic combustor on a wood stove?
A catalytic wood stove uses a catalytic combustor to re-burn the gasses and particulates that are released from the burning wood. These gasses pass through the catalytic combustor, which operates at very high temperatures, and combust – providing increased efficiency, fewer emissions, and longer burn times.
What is a catalytic element?
A catalytic combustor is a device with a ceramic honeycomb design that can be wheel, oval, or rectangular in shape. It is usually coated with palladium or another noble metal to withstand the harsh environment of heating applications. It causes smoke to be burned instead of escaping via the flue or stovepipe unused.
Are catalytic stoves worth it?
If you’re looking for maximum efficiency and the cleanest burn, a catalytic stove is hard to beat. With this increased efficiency, and the ability to burn the fire very low without risk of it smoldering and producing creosote, catalytic stoves can achieve very long burn times — up to 40 hours!
What is a catalytic combustor made of?
Most catalytic combustors used in manufacturing catalytic stoves today are made of a high temperature, honeycomb patterned ceramic substrate. They are coated with special noble metals like palladium and/or platinum. The honeycomb pattern gives the combustor surface area for the catalytic coatings.
Do catalytic wood stoves require electricity?
Wood stoves do not require a source of electricity in order to operate.
What does a combustor do?
The important function of the combustor is to efficiently mix air with the fuel and burn it in a manner that provides a high stagnation temperature with small losses in stagnation pressure and low pollutant emissions.