With the intention to reduce emissions from wood stoves and to tally with the new environmental regulations, today wood fireplace inserts are used the advanced combustion technology that was developed in both the us and Canada. To make certain more complete combustion of the wood and smokes, a secondary combustion was a part of this new technology to increase the fireplace operating efficiency also to cut down the amount of emission escaping through the firebox.

The popular wood fireplace inserts use two separated preheated path of combustion air, one of the air sources feeds directly into the wood burning and the other one is aimed above the main fire to capture and ignite the imperfect combustion gases that would rather be released up the chimney.

The benefit of using dual combustion air path:

* This double combustion air path synchronized zone and flame patters in the wood fireplace insert

* Minimize the emissions by ten fold compared to a normal fireplace

* Free up the low levels of creosote and incomplete combustion products, and eliminate the potential for chimney fires.

With a purpose to allow much of the infrared heat to be transmitted to the room, wood fireplace inserts using advanced combustion technology included airtight, gasket doors, and special ceramic glass windows. And to allow easy viewing of the fire, a hot air blower used if you want to sweep the window with air.

This new wood fireplace inserts have a better heat exchange property than standard fireplaces because room air is drawn with a fan through a grill under the firebox then sent via a heat exchanger and back into the room at the top of the fireplace. With the intention to send the heat to the rest of your home, the heat could be ducted to adjacent rooms where as auxiliary fan can send it through ducts.

The chances of combustion products leaking to the house are minimal as these wood fireplace inserts have such little interaction with the place air. For better safety and effectiveness, the outdoor air is supplied directly to the fireplace for combustion and the maze currently in use for preheating the air before it goes into the firebox is built to keep the combustion gases from getting away. The amount of energy efficiency might be around 50% to 70% in a normal installation and when installed in a major living area with an open view to other parts of your house might be higher. The insert can offer much of the heating needs for the entire house and also can lower monthly heating bills.

The wood fireplace inserts offered the energy independence. This wood fireplace insert can continue to run as heat source for the house even with the power failure. But the heat through the fire will radiate from the fireplace into the house by natural since the electric circulating fan will not function.

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