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welcome to www. website under construction... to contact myc riggulsford about the smallpower articles in country smallholding please email: myc@ smallpower! biomass boilers - an eco friendly start to renewable energy by myc riggulsford myc@ first published january 2009 & february 2009 country smallholding i started country smallholding's look over 2009 at renewable energy technologies with one of the best established, simple to use and most appropriate for smallholders - biomass boilers. the new generation of log, wood chip and pellet boilers can typically replace or improve an existing oil or gas central heating and hot water system and use much cheaper fuel in the future. they have been popular in scandinavia, eastern europe and austria for years, now it's britain's turn. the drawback (and there's always at least one major drawback) is that even though wood fuelled boilers are incredibly efficient and cheap to run once installed, they are quite expensive to buy, quite expensive to install and work best if they burn continuously, even if it is very slowly. this means you also need to have a large heat store such as a very big hot water tank to keep the heat as it is generated. case study 1: in our smallholding's five bedroom, three bathroom farmhouse in north devon we had an old and too small oil fired boiler system in an outhouse. it was costing us about £2,000 a year to run in 2006, even before oil costs rocketed, plus an annual service at about £50, just for heating the bathrooms and upstairs bedrooms, and supplying all our hot water. we used log stoves downstairs (and an aga in the kitchen). when we heard about the new vigas log boilers (i thought they were swedish but it turns out they are slovakian - i'm a bit deaf and didn't read the manual properly) we decided to install one even though they then cost around £3,500. our old oil boiler was on it's last legs, we thought it would be good for the environment, and we would have a secure and cheap supply of logs from our own 4 acres of coppice and hedgelaying. by the time we had finished installing the log boiler it had cost closer to £10,000 once we had relaid a flat floor in the boilerhouse (old piggeries), and our local plumber had put in larger bore piping from the boiler to the hot water tank. a typical domestic central heating and hot water system may have a 100 litre hot water tank, as we did. for a wood fuelled boiler you're going to need 250 litres or larger to cope with the continuous heat output, at the current price of copper, that's quite expensive. we put in a new, well insulated, 250 litre hot water tank with a coil at the bottom to take the output from roof mounted solar hot water panels, a coil in the middle to take the output from the log boiler and an immersion heater in the top in case of emergencies. so that's extra plumbing and electrical costs as well, plus you need extra space. if you go for a heat store or buffer system of 1000-2,000 litres or larger with a massively insulated tank - which helps your system to work much more efficiently - you're looking at major space implications to site the thing, and extra capital costs of over £1,000 for a 1,000 litre tank and around £2,000 for a 2,000 litre tank. the whole system also needs a complicated set of return valves which regulate the water flow from the boiler to the domestic heating and hot water, which make sure that the water returning to the boiler is an even temperature. this apparently makes the whole system much more efficient, prevents the build up of tar during burning, and prolongs the boiler's life. these valves are also expensive, costing around £300. and you'll need safety valves and extra plumbing to flood the system and shut it down in case it overheats and to stop the boiler exploding (i'm told this never happens, but then aeroplanes don't crash either). finally you need some way of losing heat continuously- in our case we had a couple of radiators in bathrooms plumbed directly into the system before the main tank so that when the boiler's on, so are these radiators, continuously losing a little bit of heat. you'll remember from december 2008's article that in energy terms one kilowatt (1kw) is one bar of an electric fire's worth of power or heat. with our 25kw boiler system, even when it's slumbering during the night and the central heating is off on a time switch, it needs to lose 5kw of heat - like having five bars of an electric fire on. so we have two toasty warm bathrooms all the time, and more plumbing costs. but that's it. 25kw log boiler, special twin coil hot water tank, valves, heat loss radiators, lots of minor plumbing. it's simple and brilliant, and it works. all you need now is fuel. and all you need to start is somewhere to put the boiler. we realised early on that opening the log boiler door to feed it could be smoky. we were used to periodic smoke from our log stoves anyway, but this could be a major problem and we were looking forward to having a clean house without a constant layer of fine ash once we converted to using the central heating instead of log stoves downstairs. the solution for us was to put the 25kw vigas log boiler supplied by clifford frost of dunster wood fuels into the old piggery, replacing our previous oil boiler. some people keep the old system in parallel in case the logs run out, but we didn't. our scullery has an access door through into the piggeries. jenny said that when i'm away she wasn't prepared to go outside at night to either stoke the boiler last thing or fetch logs, so we needed an integral log store as well. our pigsties are about 6 foot 6 inches wide and 40 foot long, so we built a partition wall dividing off the 14 feet nearest the scullery and insulated the roof. this became the boiler house and a drying room for horse rugs, dog towels, wet gloves and barbours, and it works brilliantly. it has a door outside to stand buckets of hot ash to cool and an internal door through to the rest of the piggery which has now become our main log store (years previously it housed turkeys - and rats). we get a lot of electrical supply failures as we're at the end of a line, which could be a problem for the central heating pump to circulate the hot water if the power fails. so our local plumber alan pidner put the new 250 litre hot water tank in the airing cupboard of our guest bathroom. this is almost directly above the scullery, separated by just the outside wall's thickness (it's cob, it's a lot) from the boilerhouse pigsty. it was then simple for alan to fit the laddomat return valve on top of the boiler, run the large bore piping through the wall, and in a continuous vertical rise along the inside house walls through the scullery and back hall up to the hot water tank, taking off spurs to the two bathroom radiators on the way to act as heat loss radiators. we decided to risk it and not go for a buffer tank as well. alan put an old 6 foot radiator we had spare in the new boilerhouse which can come on in an emergency to lose more heat. we decided to use our local plumber alan, who is properly qualified and corgi registered, even though he isn't a registered biomass boiler installer - which means we couldn't get the low carbon buildings grant for any of the work he did - because the nearest recommended installers were 40 miles away and quoted around £4,000 to just install and connect the log boiler, never mind the extra internal plumbing changes we needed. alan's price was about half this, including the other work, and he's local so if we have any problems he's immediately on hand, so he was still cheaper than getting the full grant. we therefore got just £900 as a grant, where the maximum for domestic biomass installations is £1500 or 30% of costs. our log boiler was alan's first, but he's now put in four or five similar systems for other smallholdings locally. for our new boilerhouse and drying room i built jenny some racks from old broken wooden ladders for

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Domain name:
smallpower.co.uk

Registrant:
Shaun Richings

Registrant type:
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Registrant's address:
46 Ellerslie Road
Barnstaple
Devon
EX31 2HT
United Kingdom

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Registered on: 10-Aug-2007
Expiry date: 10-Aug-2017
Last updated: 01-Aug-2015

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  ORGANIZATION Shaun Richings

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ADDRESS
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Barnstaple
Devon
EX31 2HT
United Kingdom
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