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If you want to upgrade your wood burning boiler to a new Solid Fueled Gasification style boiler and are running a forced air furnace to heat your home or shop the Elite Series Boilers from Pro Fab is your best option. Forced Air heating systems typically are used in most North America homes because they can also use air condition with just one heating and cooling ventilation system. If you have duct work in your home you have forced air or HVAC. To convert a Forced Air Heating System to Hot Water Heating from a Wood Boiler requires a Water To Air Heat Exchanger in your Plenum. These heat exchangers must run hotter as air is inert, because it is a gas. It is very difficult to heat air verses water, which absorbs BTUs very efficiently. A great example of this is Thermopane windows which can provide up to a R5 Thermal resistance with just one inch of air space in between two panes of glass under vacuum. Therefore the heat exchanger in a forced air system must run much hotter 160-190 degrees fahrenheit than an Indoor Radiant Heating System which runs between 102-106 depending on BTU loss of the structure. As you can only store water to 212 degrees Fahrenheit at sea level before it begins to boil that does not allow you the ability to pull much more than 20-40 degrees of heat out of your water storage system before your out of useable BTUs out of your water storage, once you get close to the temperature required to provide enough BTUs into the air flow, you're out of energy. You can't heat your home to 70 degrees when the water temp is 150 degrees and 160 degrees is required. Your home will only heat to 60 and will continue to drop rapidly as the temperature of the water in the storage tank continues to drop. For many homes in North America, only the boilers that can idle and ramp up when a demand is placed for BTUs makes sense. The Elite Boilers make sense in this regard as they can idle and will gasifiy when a call for heat occurs. To understand how this works please read our Blog.

Empyre Elite 100 uses a process called wood Gasification to produce highly efficient combustion in the furnace's dual burn chambers. Wood in the firebox burns from the bottom up, drying the top layer of wood in the firebox and pushing gases and exhaust into the lower burn chamber. In the lower chamber, temperatures as high as 2000 F burn off all of the gases. The fire brick lining in the Elite Wood Boilers both burn chambers absorbs the heat and maintains burn chamber temperatures for consistent combustion. This high temperature Gasification combustion significantly lowers emissions, prevents creosote buildup and minimizes ash buildup in the Empyre Elite Wood Gasification Furnace/Boiler. After passing through the burn chamber, exhaust air is forced through multiple flues running through the water jacket, heating the water quickly and efficiently.

As far as Wood Burning High Efficient Gasification Boilers are concerned, the Empyre Elites come in two sizes, the Elite 100 and 200 boilers. The Elite 100 is a 100,000 BTU Gasification Boiler and the Elite 200 is a 200,000 Gasification Boiler. The Elite Boilers also come in an Outdoor Wood Burning EPA Approved Furnace/Boiler called the Elite XT100 and the Elite XT200 Wood Gasification boilers.

The Elite Boilers from Pro Fab are unique in that they are one of the only European Style Gasification Wood Burning Boilers that does not require water storage to work, unlike many of the wood Gasification boilers currently on the market which are Batch Burning Gasification Boilers that require water storage to work properly. As these Batch Burners are designed to run wide open and do not idle, the BTUs are stored in the water storage system which as a rule should be about half the square feet of the house in water storage, for example a 2000 sq ft home would realize a tremendous advantage if it has 1000 gallons of water to store the BTUs in. This is realized in the shoulder seasons such as Spring and Fall when the boiler only needs to run every few days to provide enough stored heat to keep the chill off the structure. This advantage is only realized in Radiant Indoor Heating Systems that run at much lower temperatures.



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Wood Gasification Process