Catalytic Stove:
A higher efficiency heating machine, catalytic wood stoves are ideal for those who wish to supplant a major portion of their heating needs with their wood stove.
- Cleaner Burning
- Higher Efficiency
- Advanced features such as top loading, swing out ash pan and thermostatic control
- Longer Burn Time
Non-Catalytic Stove:
Homeowners will save money and time with a non-cataltyic model. Easier to start and operate, the noncatalytic wood stove is ideal for those with less heating demands on their wood stove.
- Slightly lower cost
- Easier to operate
- Lively flame picture
- No catalytic combuster to replace
How catalytic combustion works:
- Primary air enters the stove through an access hole in the back and is preheated as it is drawn through the interior walls of the stove.
- To achieve greater efficiency, thermostatically controlled secondary air mixes with the smoke (which is unburned wood gases). This begins the secondary combustion process.
- Smoke passes through a catalytic combustor, which lowers the smoke's burning temperature from 1200ºF to 600ºF, and causes it to ignite. This secondary combustion turns smoke into usable heat.