When moist wood is burned, it produces more smoke and pollution and causes soot to gather inside the wood burner and chimney. Moist wood is a waste of energy and causes the wood burner to cool down. A fresh log has a moisture content of about 50% and must be left to dry until it has a moisture content of 20%. Light the fire on the top of this stack of wood. In order for the hardwood to be efficient it must be drive and. Stack thin sticks in criss-cross layers on top of them, leaving space between.Ĥ. Wood containing sap (50 and more) will boil instead of burning thus will lose its heating value. For the analysis the temperature variation, the combustion quality. The actual lighting process is importanĢ. husk associated with firewood to heat the drying air passing through a heat exchanger. To light a fire correctly, it is essential to have proper, dry firewood, get the fire going well and, very importantly, ensure an adequate supply of air.Īccording to SINTEF, one of Europe’s largest independent research institutes, it is important to get a fire burning properly to get the maximum benefit and efficiency from the firewood. How to light a fire correctly and cut down on wood usage Enova, which is owned by the Norwegian Ministry of Climate and Environment, has produced a practical guide explaining the savings and benefits to be gained by purchasing a new wood burner. Your home will be filled with real warmth and enhanced with a stylish, heat-generating design feature. With today’s high energy prices, the investment in a clean-burning wood burner from Jøtul will pay for itself within a few years. The same source also ranks our fireplaces and wood burners as the most energy smart! So by switching to a new wood burner, you will get twice the heat from each log. The efficiency rating of older fireplaces and wood burners is about 40%, according to the Norwegian Society for the Conservation of Nature’s project «Energy Smart», while a clean-burning wood burner from Jøtul has an efficiency rating of more than 80%. Twice as much heat from a wood burner with Clean Burn Technology

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