Pre-Cast J Tube Rocket Heater Cores
Why use a Dragon Heater Core in your Rocket Mass Heater?
Using a pre-cast refractory core for your rocket mass heater makes construction faster, easier, and your heater's performance will be superior to what you can achieve using traditional approaches. A Dragon Burner will outperform a traditional rocket heater, because it is made of superior materials, has an optimized burn tunnel, and utilizes a secondary air channels for complete combustion.
Pre-Engineered Rocket Mass Heater
Countless people of have put days of labor into their rocket heater project only to have it fail. This happens because the rules for sizing the various parts in relation to each other have been difficult to understand and unsuitable materials have been substituted for the proper ones. By using a Dragon Heater, you are assured the engineering is right and it will last. You don’t want a heater to fail when you need it most.
Cut hours of labor off your Rocket Heater Build
The dragon burner comes in a few pieces that are quickly assembled. Add a steel drum, a base for it, and a bench or bell, and you're done.
Build a Rocket Heater without the use of Cob "clay"
With a shippable rocket heater core, or Dragon Heater, it is now easy to build rocket heaters without cob. The exterior shell for your heater can be made of steel, or masonry material which can be tiled or rock faced to suit any decor. This means you can easily build rocket heaters where clay may be harder to find or transport. Moreover, your finished unit will probably weigh a lot less than it would constructed mostly from cob.
Dragon Heaters vs Traditional Rocket Mass Heaters
Dragon Heater Burn Tunnel Shape
This burn tunnel, developed by Peter Van den Berg has a number of unique elements that make its performance superior to tunnels constructed of bricks. When combustion begins the gases traveling down the burn tunnel are invariably slowed by friction along the side walls (called laminar flow). The Dragon rocket heater core has two specially designed wedges which disrupt laminar flow. The gases are forced to return to the combustion flow, insuring a good mix and (virtually) complete combustion. Further turbulence is induced, without electricity, by a pair of vortex spiral shapes at the end of the burn tunnel.
J-Tube combustion and secondary air
A secondary air intake is included just after the feed tube. This channel is essential for more complete combustion as well as preventing back smoking. Although most of rocket mass heaters do not include such a secondary air intake, it has been shown to greatly improve the performance of any rocket heater. The air is preheated by the metal feed tube so as to not rob the combustion process from the introduction of cold air.