What is the difference between a catalytic stove and a non-catalytic stove?
Both Country Flame catalytic and non-catalytic wood-burning stoves have been certified by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to be clean burning and are great heating appliances. Different technologies are used to achieve these results. Catalytic stoves use a catalyst to burn the gases in smoke that would otherwise form creosote in your chimney and pollute the air. Catalytic wood stoves are generally larger in size than non-catalytic wood stoves, and will usually have longer burn times. The Country Flame catalytic wood stoves will heat larger areas using a double wall heat exchanger system built within the stove to distribute heat throughout the home.
A Catalytic Stove has a special catalytic combustor through which the smoke passes before it goes up the chimney. This cools the temperature of the smoke. At the same time turbulant air is added to the smoke via secondary air ports and baffles, which adds the oxygen needed to burn additional gases and particulates to prevent these from polluting the environment. Non-Catalytic stoves move the air within the firebox using specially designed air tubes. Primary air enters the firebox from the bottem of the stove while secondary air is introduced above the fuel through the air tubes. The gas by-products of the combustion are channeled in an “S” pattern over super-heated steel or masonry baffles which help ignite the gases before they escape into the atmosphere as pollutants.
Both Country Flame catalytic and non-catalytic wood burning stoves have been certified by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to be clean burning and are great heating appliances. Different technologies are used to achieve these results. Catalytic stoves use a catalyst to burn the gases in smoke that would otherwise form creosote in your chimney and pollute the air. Catalytic wood stoves are generally larger in size than non-catalytic wood stoves, and will usually have longer burn times. The Country Flame catalytic wood stoves will heat larger areas using a double wall heat exchanger system built within the stove to distribute heat throughout the home. Non-catalytic wood stoves use a technology similar to a kiln. By using firebrick to hold an intense amount of heat within the firebox itself, and injecting secondary air in the top of the firebox, the Country Flame Ovation line of non-catalytic wood stoves are very clean burning and efficient. Non-catalytic wood stoves are generall
