Re: trick, yes good one and well practiced when needed. Lol I don't think we started the fire with kindling in past two months. Even coming back from Xmas vacation it started with a single btu or match. Spruce charcoal is wonderful for starting up easily. H
On 2014-01-05, at 10:18 AM, Bob Stuart <[email protected]> wrote: > My favorite trick for lighting a wood stove is to pile up chunks of split > wood so that there is an empty vertical space in the middle 2-3 cm wide. > Just a bit of kindling set off in there will get the two walls radiating at > each other quickly, especially if they are extra dry from being near the > stove on its previous burn. A chunk on top should moderate the airflow to > increase combustion temperatures until it starts to burn through. This saves > me a lot of time from making and fussing over kindling. A propane torch or a > bit of wax or pitch are other labor-savers. > > Bob Stuart > > On 5-Jan-14, at 10:50 AM, Henri Naths wrote: > >> Hi Ken >> Thank you for your good analysis of your wood stove. I know there is a >> better design and I'm not sure if my stove is better or not. >> Here is the thing. I burn spruce. My supply comes in 5 to 8 inch round logs >> dried for ~3 years. Not sure mc but guess around 15%.-20 % I try to >> maintain a very hot temp so the entire logs gasify and burn over a 12 hr >> period. (Absolutely no fuel prep. splitting etc is mandatory lol ) It's very >> fickle in setting damper and air intake but for the most part I am >> successful. The refractory bricks helps a lot. So that is 2 burns over a 24 >> hr period. ( it's been averaging minus 20 c over the last two months here so >> not much choice)Ive run numerous test of my theory for max efficiency under >> which this stove operates and settled on this operation because when the >> stove is shut down anywhere at the height of its max temperature and burn >> cycle and allowed to cool to 20 c it can be relight with a single match. >> The volatile gases including h2o could be better used for sure. They cool >> and condensate on the inside walls of the stove and flue before they frac. >> completely resulting in biochar. The problem being the gases should be >> reheated, frac.ed with a catalyst and burned where the heat would be a >> benefit to the logs for pyrolysis. Thus enhancing the entire burn + 20%. ( >> +++ considering the exponential advantage of said catalysis and resulting >> heat) >> A fluidized bed would also be an advantage. >> I hope this helps. >> Yours truly >> Henri Naths > > _______________________________________________ > Gasification mailing list > > to Send a Message to the list, use the email address > [email protected] > > to UNSUBSCRIBE or Change your List Settings use the web page > http://lists.bioenergylists.org/mailman/listinfo/gasification_lists.bioenergylists.org > > for more Gasifiers, News and Information see our web site: > http://gasifiers.bioenergylists.org/
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