Swimming Pool Heated By Wood Burning Stove

Swimming Pool Heated By Wood Burning Stove ENERGY Wood Burners 65 An Ohio man found a simple way to heat his outdoor swimming pool He set up a do-it-yourself barrel stove and installed a series of 12 copper tubes inside it The tubes gather heat off the stove and the swimming pool’s pump circulates the heated water back into the pool Roofing contractor Matt Studer of Bloomville Ohio recently sent us photos of the stove which is owned by Greg Mathies who is one of his customers Mathies bought the stove from another person who put the system together The stove is located about 15 ft from Mathies’s 28 by 14-ft pool The inventor modified a commercial wood burning barrel stove kit that has everything you need to turn a 55-gal barrel into a high-capacity wood burning stove “You can buy stove kits for less than $100 so it’s an inexpensive way to add heat to a swimming pool ” says Studer “The same idea could be used for other purposes such as to heat a stock tank ” The inventor cut a door into one end of the barrel and installed 6 pairs of 1-in dia copper tubes inside The tubes run in pairs spaced about 4 in apart and go back and forth the length of the stove entering and exiting through holes cut into both ends of the stove “The tubes surround the burning wood which sits on a curved steel rack ” says Studer A pair of underground copper tubes fitted with 90-degree elbows are attached to the stove One tube delivers unheated pool water to the stove and the other sends the heated water back “The water makes a total of 12 passes through the tubes inside the barrel before it goes back to the pool so it gets pretty hot It probably increases the pool’s water temperature by 15 to 20 degrees ” says Studer Contact: FARM SHOW Followup Matt Studer 3930 Orr Rd Bloomville Ohio 44818 ph 419 544-6275; kensstandingseamroofs@gmail com

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