Vacuum-Bag Lumber Kiln on a Concrete Pad Using Wood Fired Boiler Water Heat
Electrical Savings per Year Using Wood Boiler for Heat Source
Running back-to-back with no turnaround loss, the kiln completes 151 charges a year (58-hr cycles, 8,760 hrs/yr) — about 755,000 board feet.Electric resistance design: 530,886 kWh/yr → $58,397/yr at $0.11/kWh.Wood-fired hot water design (pumps + controls only): 43,785 kWh/yr → $4,816/yr.Annual electrical savings: 487,101 kWh, or $53,581/yr (92% less grid electricity).That comes at the cost of about 95 cords/yr of wood fuel. If that wood isn't actually free and you priced it at $200/cord ($19,030/yr), the wood-fired design still comes out $34,551/yr ahead of the electric design (59% total cost savings) — the boiler fuel is just cheaper per delivered BTU than grid electricity even when it isn't free.
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