With the first Wood Stove Decathlon
only a few months away, we are doing a weekly blog post to showcase the Decathlon
competitors. Take this opportunity to learn more about the design teams and
their stove’s innovative features.
Walker Stoves
is introducing their model to the Wood Stove Decathlon, highlighting the
stove’s versatility and safety. The final design is the product of Matt Remine
with internal design finalization credit going to Peter van den Berg. Remine is
a designer, builder, and tinkerer living in the Pacific North West
of the United States. A lifelong wood burner with a curious mind, he has been
designing and refining wood burning devices since childhood.
The stove can be installed either as a free standing stove
or it can be incorporated as part of a masonry stove installation. This
versatility means that no matter the home aesthetics of the owner, the Walker
Stove can satisfy those wishes.
The key innovation of the Walker stove is the unique way in
which it blends a cord wood fire box, viewing window, air control, secondary
air injection, and rocket stove style differential engine together in a
familiar metal surround wood stove. The differential engine uses the motive
force provided by the rising hot gasses in the internal chimney and the
falling, cooling gases in the enclosure to allow the stove to drive a thermal
mass battery system. The majority of the heat energy contained in the fuel can
be retained inside the building’s envelope. Walker Stoves has developed this
product as a modular system, with the intention of making the core available to
masons as an affordable masonry stove core.
We are looking
forward to seeing Walker Stoves in action at the Wood Stove Decathlon
November 16-19, 2013. Vote for your favorite stove at Popular Mechanics.
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