On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 11:38 PM, Crispin Pemberton-Pigott <[email protected]> wrote:
> My initial response is that you have created a >self-heating retort and it > look a bit grim for the future of the layout. Well, it might not be that bad, as I could always use it as a retort at the focal point of my Helios Solar Concentrator to do destructive distillation of wood. My blogs for that are at: <http://www.solarfire.org/Texas-2010> I did a few more google searches and found that 2500 Anila's have been produced to date: <http://biocharinnovation.wordpress.com/> November 2, 2010 by Sarah Carter Recent communications with Sumuki Associates, Mysore, India – the manufacturer of the Anila stove confirmed that over 2500 units have been produced to date. The engineering operation is equipped with all the equipment for the manufacture of stoves, and is capable of fulfilling bulk orders. Since raw materials have increased in costs since the stove was invented, large orders are required to keep production cost effective (pers comm C.S. Ramaswami). > you might be able to use the > layout by severely limiting the primary air to see if it prevents > overheating. Give it a shot. Block almost everything and > see what happens. Check out this link: <http://africaclimate.org/2009/01/06/carbon-cycle-and-anila-stove/> The design/illustration here courtesy of Folke Gunther shows how to build the stove. My grate or cone at the bottom was built like the one shown, using perforated steel, but I'll build another grate/cone with far fewer holes. This seems to be a solution also in the next link. In testing shown here: <http://www.bioenergylists.org/content/testing-anila-stove-0> "Without wanting to change the design too much from the original plans, the following changes were deemed necessary – - Adding a mud seal around the base join - Increasing pan height - Blocking 50% of holes." > It might remain more stable and you may be very happy with the result. I hope so. Getting these stoves to work is not an easy task, although Paul Anderson's Champion stove that I built using a helium bottle works very well, every time, for the last 18 months. (I must have really "lucked out"!.) Regarding the Anila stove: from this link: <http://biocharinnovation.wordpress.com/07-stove-designs/the-anila-stove/> C.S.Ramaswamy Says on October 30, 2010: | "I was the man who fabricated and developed the anila stove for Mr.U.N.Ravikumar of Mysore University. I am an design and development engineer and having a workshop. We have put in 2 years of work for perfecting the anila stove. These stove were manufactured and sold through Mr.Ravikumar in India as well as foreign countries." Well, I will head out to the shop to cut out a new grate/cone with fewer and smaller holes that will restrict the air. Also, I want to try insulating the whole propane tank by circling it with the lower half of a 55 gallon steel barrel filled with batts of fiberglass. This can then be used to support proper sized pot shields for my larger water heating pots. Many thanks for your comments, -- Ray Menke _______________________________________________ Stoves mailing list to Send a Message to the list, use the email address Stoves mailing list to UNSUBSCRIBE or Change your List Settings use the web page http://lists.bioenergylists.org/mailman/listinfo/stoves_lists.bioenergylists.org for more Biomass Cooking Stoves, News and Information see our web site: http://www.bioenergylists.org/ [email protected] http://lists.bioenergylists.org/mailman/listinfo/stoves_lists.bioenergylists.org
