Lopez Labs Co-OperativeA JOINT
VENTURE BETWEEN
Jerry Frisch with his clean burning Frisch Rosin masonry fireplace system (Norbert Senf on the left,, holding "2 min." sign) (1994) Lopez Labs was started at the Everett, Washington shop of Lopez Quarries/Masonry Heaters. Between 1992 and 1995 we tested a variety of masonry heaters for several weeks every spring. We currently maintain the largest masonry heater performance database in the United States or Canada. Lopez also participated with two other labs in a simultaneous field test series of masonry fireplaces at McNear Brick in California in 1995. In 2004 we opened a second test facility at the Masonry Stove Builders shop here in Greermount, Quebec (90 minutes from Ottawa, Canada's capital.) We are building a long term performance database on how various operating factors affect specific heater models. Alex Chernov opened a test facility at Stovemaster in 2009. Homestead Heat, Solid Rock Masonry and Alaska Hearth Technologies are in the process of setting up test facilities. One goal of the co-operative venture is to establish common testing procedures and quality control protocols to allow comparison of data. A number of papers have been published describing the research at Lopez Labs. These are available at Lopez Labs Archive Current ResearchWood Stove Design Challenge 2013 2010 Test Series - January - February, 2010 Bell Experiments with a Contraflow Heater - March 2010 Masonry Heater Fuel Crib Repeatability Testing Lopez Labs Conference - January 4 - 7, 2010 Recent ResearchEvaluating a Testo 308 Digital Smoke Spot Meter - November 2009 Bell Construction and Testing Workshop - October 2009 Rocket-Bell Experiments - July 2009 Alaska Fireplace Retrofit Project - updated July 10/09 Condar dilution tunnel particulates data summary (2008-9, 67 runs) Experimental Masonry Hydronic Heating Workshop - updated Dec 18/09 Masonry Heater Emissions Testing at Shawville, 2008 Burning Pellets in a Masonry Heater - updated Jan 30/09 Emissions Calibration Testing- Fairbanks, Alaska, 2007 Free Gas Movement - Shawville 2007 2006 - 2007 Contraflow Tests at Shawville Technical Assessment of Hi-mass Masonry Heaters and Integrated Water Loop Bell heater testing - Alex Chernov, 2007 Bell heater testing - Wildacres 2006 Bell heater testing - Toronto 2006 Fuel Crib Testing, February, 2005
Clearance to Combustibles Testing, MHA Annual Meeting, 2001 Clearance to Combustibles Testing, Shawville, April, 2000
A Comparison of Fireplace Emissions
Testing Methods Very Low Emissions Cordwood Combustion
in High Burn Rate Appliances - Early Results with Possible Implications Air
Requirements and Related Parameters for Masonry Heating Systems |
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