Post #8948

Second type is engineered different. Imagine, if smoke after furnace, where fire burns, goes into clay pot that turned upside down. Hot smoke goes up, than, giving off heat to the walls, cools and becomes heavier and tries to escape from below. Next, we place another inverted pot on top, this time larger, above the first one. The warm, new smoke from the first pot displaces the cooled smoke into the second, larger pot, where the heat is still transferred to the walls of pots rather than escaping, working like in the first pot. After which, the finally cooled smoke goes outside (in the oven - through the pipe, placed in bottom of second pot). Here the principle of operation is based on the transfer of heat through infrared radiation, so it is more effective than the previous one through friction. This happens because the smoke has time to cool down and release more heat. And also bottom part of the stove also heated due to the fact that the heated gases descend under their own weight. This is how Kuznetsov’s stoves works, in general. He’s not inventor of technology, but he improved it greatly. Main con of these stoves is their complexity. But for good mason this is not a problem. Even if you got any experience with masonry, there are a lot of drawings and tutorials on the web that will helps.