Domestic Biomass Heating Systems
& Range Cookers

Wood fuelled heating systems burn woody biomass in the form of wood pellets, wood chips or logs and are used to power central heating and hot water boilers, or to provide warmth in a single room.

The most common and convenient forms of woody biomass for domestic heating are Split Logs, Wood Pellets and Briquettes and Wood Chips.

A stand-alone Wood Burning Stove, burning logs or pellets, may be used to heat a single room. Some can also be fitted with a back boiler to provide water heating as well.


Wood Burning Boiler Stoves may be connected to the existing heating system, as may some Wood Burning Range Cookers.


A boiler stove may be used as an alternative to a gas or mineral oil heating systems or to supplement other sources of heating such as solar heating, geothermal heating, heat pumps, electric heating, or a gas or oil fired furnace.

A Biomass Central Heating Boilers burning pellets, logs or chips may also be connected to a central heating and hot water system.

Log burning stoves and boilers are filled with wood by hand. Some pellet and chip burners use automatic fuel feeders which refill them at regular intervals from fuel storage units called hoppers.

When a wood boiler replaces a solid (coal) fired system savings in CO2 emissions are significant - up to 9.6 tonnes per year.


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