Russian stove: device, properties and features

A small house, a Russian stove ... Probably, many residents of megalopolises today would dream of being there, especially if the house is in a secluded corner, on the banks of a narrow stream or in the shade of a forest. True, the Russian stove, the device of which is quite complex, today is becoming less and less common. Mostly fireplaces come to replace it - more modern and fashionable devices with which you can create a certain atmosphere in the house. And about the good old Russian stove is gradually forgotten ...

To begin with, I want to note that in Russia without a stove, the house was not a house at all, because it not only heated, but also made it possible to cook food. And just from this very word it blows with comfort, a homeland. The Russian stove has such a device that it can be used for heating homes and for cooking. By the way, today in many remote corners of our immense homeland still remained at home, not connected to the benefits of civilization in the form of gas heating, and therefore their residents are still forced to use the stove.

From a technical point of view, the device of the Russian stove is quite complex, it consists of the following elements:

• trenches;
• blowing;
• blower doors;
• grate ;
• furnace door;
• hearth;
• combustion chamber;
• haila (different burnout);
• arch of a fire chamber;
• cameras
• outer wall;
• smoke circulation;
• covering the furnace;
• chimney to the pipe;
• deviations (the gap that remains between the chimney and the stove);
• channel
• smoke damper ;
• inner walls.
  

To choose which device the Russian stove will have, it is necessary, firstly, to decide for what purposes it is needed, and secondly, to know how it works. The main elements of any design include the following: firebox, chimney and pipe. The heart of the furnace is the firebox - a chamber in which fuel burns. Traditionally, the Russian stove is heated with wood. A chamber under the firebox is a blower, it is necessary in order to blow air into the firebox. By the way, during the combustion of a kilogram of fuel by the stove, up to 10 m ^{3 of} air is consumed, which ensures excellent ventilation of the room. In addition, the furnace is designed so that when it is heated and the operating mode is set, the best traction, complete combustion of the fuel, and efficient use of heat are provided. The second important component is the chimney, that is, the channel system that is created inside the brickwork. Passing through them, smoke contributes to their heating. In the simplest version, the chimney has two turns.

Thus, the Russian stove, the device of which you need to know when laying it with your own hands, differs in the following characteristics:

1. Heat transfer, that is, power, namely the amount of thermal energy that is released during heating.
2. Heat capacity, that is, after the combustion of fuel, the furnace remains warm for a long time.
3. Mass, which is also an important parameter. The lightest are devices manufactured in the factory, as well as made of cast iron or filling. They can be installed on the floor even without a foundation. But manual laying will make the stove massive.
4. A traditional stove in Russia was a very important attribute in any home: it warmed up the room, was used as a warm stove bench or as a stove for cooking, had a built-in boiler for heating water. And very often it was built with their own hands, but for this it was necessary to know well device of the Russian stove. The scheme is therefore a very important component, which is simply indispensable. For a Russian person, the stove remains a traditional attribute to this day.