Adobe heater

[Berdar]

Alright, I'm getting old and my memory is shot.

I remember reading about and watching some youtube videos of an adobe bench heater. Essentially it was a wood gas type burner with a metal can inside a can construction but the flue was routed through an adobe bench to provide a heat sink. Anybody know what they're called or a website or two that details them.

I'm currently working with a unit from the Afghan National Police. They have minimal supplies for the winter and this would be a good way to conserve wood and get the most heat for their buck.


Thanks all.

 

[Zog the Troll]

do a google search for "Rocket Stove" or "mass stove". A lot of the rocket stove results are using it as a cooking stove, but there are configurations where it is used as a mass stove (i.e. the majority of the stove & the vent pipe are horizontally encased in adobe or similar heat-retaining material). You can also make it so it self-feeds the fuel if the sticks are vertical. Hope that is what you were thinking of.

 

[Berdar]

That's exactly it. Thank you so much.


Now to build a few of them. We've it all the materials here. Instead of a bench, we'll build them as sleeping platforms. That should make for a more comfy nights sleep.

 

[Erasmus]

Sounds kind of like a Russian masonry stove --it is a big rectangular brickwork thermal mass as large as a refridgerator which you burn a quick, hot fire in. The hot exhaust gasses are routed all around inside via baffles. The masonry absorbs the heat, and then emits gentle heat for the next 12 or 24 hours. I think people even sleep on top of it, using it as a convenient warm surface.

Thank you for your service.