Comments on: Calculator

By: samuel

samuel — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 11:57:40 +0000

according to my calculations your coal furnace is newer and more efficient . with that amount of oil at equal efficiency you have twice the mbtus. so instead of 24000 you would have paid 12000. maybe oil has come down in price now compared to coal? if oil has come down it would close the gap even more.

By: samuel

samuel — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 11:57:17 +0000

By: Guy

Guy — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 21:39:29 +0000

Alternate Heating System S260. The Bentley of all solid fuel boilers bar non. I put two s260 in last November one in a 8 unit and one in a 9 unit. All the figures are in we burned 8000 gals of oil $24,000.00 in one year with the s260 23.5 tons of Anthracite Coal I paid $150 a ton $3525.00, TOTAL SAVINGS $20,475.00 (and not one penny goes to opec). This is no bull I have the printouts from the oil company. (not 1 drop of smoke comes out of the chimneys clean clean clean). Burns Anthracite coal.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LZcxS6mH3E

By: Jeff E

Jeff E — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 21:48:27 +0000

In calculating electrical generation you need to deduct for the eficiency ratio of your equipment. If you are using pellets to make steam and spin a turbine to produce electricity you might only turn30% of your theoretical Btus into electricity. Other equipment might be more efficient.

By: john k

john k — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 23:39:25 +0000

if i burn 2 cords of wood a season..how much pellets wood i use. (2 tons? )
thanks

By: CPY

CPY — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 06:01:30 +0000

“burn a bag in 2 hours”, is strange too
I bit quick I think….2 Day????

By: CPY

CPY — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 05:58:48 +0000

Should it not read:

1kw = about 3414BTU/hour. One 40 lb bag of pellets has about 8000 BTU’s/POUND. So if you were to burn a bag in 2 hours it would produce about 93.7kw.
Math: (40 lb/bag) TIMES (8000 BTU/lb) DIVIDED BY (3414 BTU/KwH) = 93.7KwH/bag

By: admin

admin — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 00:42:10 +0000

1kw = about 3414BTU/hour. One 40 lb bag of pellets has about 8000 BTU’s. So if you were to burn a bag in 2 hours it would produce about 2.3kw.

By: meral

meral — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 16:00:05 +0000

how much elektricity can be producet from wood prllets ? can you sand me a information on the proortion 1 ton wood pallets /how much kW/h produce

By: sistaelle

sistaelle — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:26:59 +0000

From the manual:
my stoves BTU output- 5,673- 37,024
Approx pellet usage per hour: .9 -5.5 lbs per hour
High density pellets average 6% moisture content
1 cord of seasoned wood averages 20%

Green wood- forget it. It’ll weigh 70-100% more than seasoned due
to moisture content. Moisture content also creates creosote in your stove
due to lousy burn.

I’d rather pay for the pellets locally than pay for some sheik’s camel parking.