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With advanced technology, alternative energy's ugly stepchild is getting a mainstream makeover."I'm surprised at how much of energy policy and media is focused on biomass for cellulosic ethanol and electricity generation," says biomass thermal expert Scott Nichols. ...

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Simplified Pipe/Pump Sizing Chart (Copper Tubing)

Pipe Size	BTUH	Friction Head Feet 100’ (straight pipe)	Friction Head Feet 100’ (allowance for fittings and boiler)	Gallons per Minute (GPM) at 20 degree Delta T
1/2”	17,000	4.2’	6’	1.7
3/4”	39,000	4.2’	6’	3.9
1”	71,000	4.2’	6’	7.1
1-1/4”	160,000	4.2’	6’	16.0
1-1/2”	240,000	4.2’	6’	24.0
2”	450,000	4.2’	6’	45.0
2-1/2”	750,000	4.2’	6’	75.0
3”	1,400,000	4.2’	6’	140.0
4”	2,900,000	4.2’	6’	290.0

In order for a pump to obtain the above GPM, the pump must be sized properly to overcome the friction head of 4.2-6 feet per 100’ of copper pipe.

Example: For water to move 7.1 gallons per minute through a 1” pipe that is 200’, the pump must be able to overcome the friction loss of 4.2’-6.0’ per 100’ (4.2’-6.0’ x 2=8.4-12.0 feet). The pump will need to be able to move 7.1 GPM with a 8.4-12 friction head.

New Solo Plus/Excel Start-Up Video

A quick video showing how easy it is to start a Solo Plus video. This video could also be used to start the Excel Multi-fuel boiler.

News from American Solartechnics-The Manufacturer of our Square Heat Storage Tanks

American Solartechnics has worked diligently over the past year to offer the highest quality tanks and products.

We are pleased to announce that we have extended our tank liner warranty to 10 (ten) years.

Our manufacturing process now involves high pressure air testing of each liner. We then fill every liner completely with water to be certain that every liner that leaves our facility is tested above and beyond any loading that normal use might expose it to in the field.

We are also pleased to report that with our stringent liner testing procedures, we have found no liners with any manufacturing or material defects and no flaws in workmanship.

We would also like our BioHeatUSA customers to know that every Heat Bank Storage System is also capable of being used as storage for a solar heating system. We have over 30 years experience in building solar heating systems and would like you to know that you can add a solar option to your high efficiency wood gasifier system at any time in the future with minimal effort.

Your BioHeatUSA sales representative can assist with solar drain-back and antifreeze heating systems, as a supplement to your wood heating system.

We were recently featured by Plumbing and Mechanical Magazine’s heating columnist John Siegenthaler in a recent article in the October, 2009 issue on wood heating. You can check it out online at http://www.pmmag.com/Articles/Column/BNP_GUID_9-5-2006_A_10000000000000684181.

Tom Gocze

American Solartechnics

Box 882

Searsport, ME 04974

207-548-2148

info@americansolartechnics.com

Author Greg Pahl Talks About Heating His Home With His Wood-Pellet Boiler

Greg Pahl has a Multi-Heat 1.5 from BioHeatUSA

For more information on the Multi-Heat indoor pellet boiler, please click here.

Ultra-Stor Indirect Hot Water Heater Sale

 

Model SSU60- $1169.30

Model SSU45- $825.00

Model SSU80- $1321.00

Model SSUB80- $1760.00

Model SSUB119- $2500.00

 

 

Please call one of our sales reps at BioheatUSA at 1-800-782-9927

Boiler Scratch and Dent Sale

All boilers carry the full manufacturers warranty. Please call BioHeatUSA for more information at 1-800-782-9927.

(Images are examples only)

Scandtec Solo Plus 40 w/digital panel with minor cosmetic damage on jacket $8100.00.

Multi-Heat 1.5 Display Boiler $6000.00. (Does not include ash bin)

Multi-Heat 4.0 with oversized 750lb pellet hopper $6900.00. (Does not include ash bin).

Multi-Heat 4.0 used one heating season $6000.00.

New Froling FHG Promotional Video

Show Us Your Woodpile Contest in Full Swing

Photos for our Show Us Your Woodpile Contest keep “Stacking UP”.

It is not too late to send us your photo of your woodpile.

The more creative and artistic the better your chance of winning the grand prize of a brand new Solo Innova Wood Gasification Indoor Wood Boiler ($8200.00 Value).

The contest runs through April 15th, 2010 and the winners will be notified on Earth Day April 22nd, 2010.

Submitted photographs will be used to produce a poster and the proceeds from the sale of the poster will be donated to a Fuel Assistance Program.

Here are some examples of entries that we have received so far.

For more information on the contest, please click here.

It is Easy to Start a Fire in a Froling FHG Wood Gasification Indoor Wood Boiler

The Froling FHG is not only one of the most technologically advanced boilers, but is also one of the easiest boilers to start.

Here is a quick video on how to start a Froling FHG.

For more information on the Froling FHG, please click here.

First P4 Pellet Boiler Installed

The first Froling P4 Pellet Boiler installed in the USA has begun its first heating season.

The Froling P4 48/60  installed

Pellets being delivered to 15 ton silo.

After three weeks of operation very little ash in the two ash bins

For more information on the Froling P4 pellet boiler, please click here.

Newest Member of the BioheatUSA Family

Travis and Kim’s new addition…

Brent Steven Paige - 10/3/09 – 9lbs 3oz – 21 inches

FHG Story (What Does that FHG Stand For?)

I’m about to fill my oil tank again. This will be the fourth filling in 11 years. The idea of calling the oil company fills me with dread. At the rate I’ve been using fuel, about 1/10^th of a gallon per day, that new 200 gallons of oil will only last until about 2014 and then I’ll have to call the oil company again. Adding insult to injury, I’ll crawl out on a limb and guess that oil will be more expensive in 2014. I just can’t win!

Dad taught me that wood is good so last November we installed the new Froling FHG wood boiler in our house. We’ve been using gasifying wood boilers in our home basically since it was built in 1997, but in an effort to take our wood burning to the next level, the Froling was the only way to step up. We are using the boiler in conjunction with thermal storage. It provides heat to the home through the same baseboard convectors and radiant floor heat that the oil boiler uses. The FHG also heats our domestic hot water during all seasons. By now you are probably wondering what FHG stands for, right? Beats me too, but so far there isn’t another residential boiler on the market with any sort of name that can match the FHG.

I’m not the most experienced wood burner as I wasn’t born with a match in my hand like all those folks I speak to that have been burning wood their whole lives, but I’ve run a few wood boilers. To me the FHG represents a sea change in wood boiler technology available in the US. More importantly, talk about a sea change, my wife doesn’t mind filling and lighting this boiler. Now, my wife is no prissy, but she’s a busy woman and frankly, she was intimidated by the steps required for lighting the other boilers we’d used in the past. You see, the FHG has a unique fire ignition port that allows us to fill the boiler with all of the wood we need, no kindling required, and by using paper only, with zero smoke roll out, light the boiler, and walk away in a couple minutes. The result is that this whole new lighting process is going to save me another few gallons of oil because the wood boiler is running even when I’m away. I haven’t had the guts to ask my mother in law to light the boiler when we’re all away yet, but…awe, never mind that idea.

Hang on, you won’t believe this: The FHG splits your wood for you too! That’s actually a lie, but it does have a smoke extraction passage to keep smoke in the boiler during loading. It also has a handy external heat exchange tube cleaning lever. Unlike most other wood boilers, this boiler only needs tube brushing once a year! For the air quality regulator in your life, the FHG offers the most precise combustion technology of any residential wood burning boiler in the US. It uses an oxygen sensor and thermometer to measure the exhaust and adjust the combustion air mixture automatically. Sound complicated? To you and me it is, but not to the engineers who built it. It works flawlessly and requires no intervention at all. With this boiler it doesn’t matter if you’re burning your kid’s broken balsa wood glider or an 8” round piece of oak, the FHG will burn with virtually laboratory accurate combustion. That doesn’t mean you can start burning old tires. The boiler still burns best with relatively dry split wood. However, it does mean that given any sort of reasonable wood for fuel, this boiler does a great job keeping the air clean and wringing every last British Thermal Unit out of the fuel.

With the Froling FHG I’m feeling good about wood!

Scott Nichols