woodstove catalytic combustors

Tuesday, April 7, 2009

EPA’s Phase II Program
Standards for particulate matter emissions

Unless exempted under §60.530 of the U.S. EPA Federal Register, each wood burning appliance manufactured on or after July 1, 1990, or sold at retail on or after July 1, 1992, shall comply with the following particulate matter emission limits as determined by the test methods and procedures in §60.534 of the U.S. EPA Federal Register:

A wood burning stove equipped with a catalytic combustor shall not discharge into the atmosphere any gases which contain particulate matter in excess of a weighted average of 4.1 g/hr (0.009 lb/hr).

A wood burning stove not equipped with a catalytic combustor shall not discharge into the atmosphere any gases which contain particulate matter in excess of a weighted average of 7.5 g/hr or (0.017 lb/hr).

2 comments:

todd said...: I have heard they may lower the gph standards even lower in the near future? Have you heard anything? The state of Washington has already lowered theirs.; April 8, 2009 at 4:12 PM
Tim Cork said...: Hi Todd,
Yes, there is a lot of talk circulating in the industry about this.
I'm not sure what the new EPA standards will be, but I'm sure they will be at least to those of the state of Washington.
The issues related to lowering particulate standards nationwide are not ones of concern to the catalytic stove manufacturers, because most catalytic stoves being built today already meet the Washington state standards or are a lot lower.
I'll talk to you more about this later when I find out what has been decided.; April 16, 2009 at 12:55 AM

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Over the last 20 years I have seem several brands of catalytic combustors available to the woodstove industry.

Only the FIRECAT catalytic combustor was available in the early 80's and still available today.

FIRECAT's quality and committment by it's producer is second to none.

FIRECAT catalytic combustors are available for any catalytic stove model ever built.

FIRECAT has been the choice of most catalytic stove manufacturers for the last 15 years.

FIRECAT catalytic combustors are made to the stove manufacturer's specifications. Their catalytic stoves were designed to perform based on the combustor's size and cell density. (cell openings)
This is why FIRECAT catalytic combustors are manufactured in 16 cpi, 20 cpi and 25 cpi (cells per square inch)
Cell size and thickness of the combustor, controls the flow rate and residence time for the gases to burn while passing through the combustor. This is very important.

The FIRECAT brand is sold by more distributors and dealers than any other brand on the market.

How do I know this, because I sold the FIRECAT brand for the last 20 years to distributors, dealers, consumers and to the catalytic stove manufacturers.

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