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The double-chambered burning compartment together with an adjustable air control, insures the utmost and cleanest burn from the wood (efficiencies range from 71 to 74%). With the single air control feature, it enables ease of use and optimal burning throughout its complex phases.
The glass doors are kept clean because of the secondary air, which is drawn through the warm stove, heated, and then forced down over the ceramic glass.
Safety - All the RAIS fireplace/stoves have been tested by OMNI-Test Laboratories, Inc. of Beaverton, Oregon and are listed to both the US UL1482 and the Canadian ULC S627 standards. They are convection stoves with double lined outside walls that enable faster heating and reduce clearances. The patented RAIS stainless steel handles have been developed for user comfort and safety and are "cool to the touch".
Environment - The firebox geometry and the computer designed baffle system control the correct mixture of air and smoke gases, which virtually eliminate (through secondary burning) any excess particulate (pollution) and produce a clean burn.
The Malta series (Malta, Bando, and Bora) and the RAIS 60 Insert are EPA certified. The Arena series (Arena, Atlas, and Komba) have also been tested and meet the Washington State and proposed Sonoma County CA fireplace environmental air quality standards for clean burning. In fact they achieved 2.5 grams/kg (one of the cleanest burning particulate rates).
Wood, available in vast amounts today, is a renewable natural product filled with the energy of the sun, thus an ecologically sound source for heat. In Denmark, all stoves must burn with a carbon dioxide neutral emission in order to meet standards. This means that the stoves must not produce any more carbon dioxide than if the wood were left to rot in the forests. Burning wood is a good thing!
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