Oil heating and solid fuel linked ?

[basildog]

Can I somehow link either a woodburner or a solid fuel boiler into an oils system in a sensible way ?
My old farmhouse had a straw and pallet burner linked with an oil fired rayburn along with a woodburner !
You could boil the whole system .
My old plumber marvelled at how the guy had made it work as he said if he had tried it would never have it really was cobbled together big style with the pipes to the house being scaffold poles welded together just below the soil with no insulation !
Just planning at the moment for a house we might buy ?

 

[kris]

Yep and there are so many ways to do it, last one I did was linked with dunsleys neutraliser, have a look at there website,,,

 

[basildog]

Our old one was done with pumps you plugged in !
ut then again the rayburn was fitted with sf flue up the outside wall of a listed building if it was a cold morning we had a white out in the kitchen !

 

[Best]

As long as you keep gravity circuits seperate to pumped circuits and allow for any excess heat from the solid fuel boiler, then any proper method is fine. I have fitted two different systems, - one is the Dunsley (was Baker) system and the other still very good way is a Twincoil cylinder, with one coil for the solid fuel gravity primaries & the other coil for the pumped oil boiler. Then the pumped circuits joined together & check valves at each boiler to prevent one boiler pumping around the other, wasting heat & pump performance. A pipe stat (to operate the solid fuel pump)on the primary return at the hot cylinder side (not nearer to the stove) & possibly an injector tee used.
Dunsley saves you bother at boilers because you just need a flow & return from any bolier, Gravity for solid fuel & pumped for oil or gas & the circuits won't affect others

 

[Best]

I should have made it clear that the Twincoil method uses a circulating pump on each boiler pumped circuit.

 

[Pipes Plumbing]

If you have a straw / pallet burner, I guess its attached to a large accumulator tank to take the heat. Similar to a farm 2000 or any other batch burner....
If thats the case, you can do it in various ways that are safe, reliable and straightforward.
The ideal solution will depend very much on the layout of your building and the sizing of the appliances / property heat load.

 

[Worcester]

'Off the shelf' solutions, include the Dunsley Neautralizer dunsley baker neutralizer link-up system
and the
H2Panel Heating Innovations homepage

Simples

Remember it will need to be installed by a suitable qualified individual because of the safety issues.

 

[Ermintrude]

Buffer and quench for solid fuel

 

[Sharp Point]

Akvaterm thermal store, they're really big!!! You'll probably needs lots of pennies though.