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Question: To use or not to use? (heating bricks for energy storage)
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[QUOTE="Lnewqban, post: 6835867, member: 673625"] You could add any firebrick around the fire box if you have the room and it does not interfere with the heat transfer to the water tubes. What I was trying to tell you earlier was the following: 1) You will get certain limited amount of heat or energy from the wood. Bricks will not increase that, in my humble opinion. There is no way around that. Keep and use as much of that energy as possible. 2) Preserving and transferring that heat to the water rather than to the surrounding air as much as possible will save you more money than any other thing. Internal or external dry insulation, shielding stove from cold draft, installing economizer, pipe's insulation, recirculating pump, all and each should help capturing and retaining more heat at additional cost. 3) Adding internal mass (bricks, cast iron, etc.) will not increase the amount of heat transferring from the wood into the water. It would only increase thermal inertia. Meaning that it will take longer to heat the water at first, and some heat will remain inside the hot water stove longer after the wood stops burning. Total heat transferred to the water should be the same, but in a retarded way. [/QUOTE]
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