Armidale Case Study - Smart Burn: More Heat and Less Smoke From Your Wood Fire - Chimney Flue Cleaning | Wood Fire Glass Cleaning | Better Wood Fired Burning | Wood Smoke Reduct

Researchers at UNE (University of New England) with support from Armidale Dumaresq Council and SmartBurn are beginning the last phase of a nationally funded project aimed at reducing wood smoke pollution. Armidale suffers from temperature inversion layers which sometimes trap high levels of wood smoke in the Atmosphere and because of this they monitor air quality every 5 minutes.  The Armidale Community has approximately 4000 Wood Heaters in use and thus wood smoke is a major problem.

Through education and a SmartBurn rebate program Armidale has been able to achieve a substantial wood smoke reduction in participating households.

Professor Don Hine from the University Of New England (NSW) was quoted as saying;

“We conducted a field experiment last year and found that both education and SmartBurn canisters were effective in significantly reducing wood smoke emissions from participating households.”