Dear Ronald,
Maybe it's called the Rocket Stove and maybe not. I have not built small TLUD's but have built large designs about the size of two 5 gallon drums. Removing the charcoal, for this size, is difficult. A door could be built in at the expense of added complexity. The other problem that I ran into was that some fuels (particle size/shapes) cause uneven stratification. In other words burning fuel can fall down to a lower level, a gravity issue. I have a 2000 gallon tank (~2m x 5m) that I'm considering using as a large TLUD to carbonize weed bales in. It would be easier to unload if it was horizontal but I would think that there would be an air space at the top because it would be difficult to stack the fuel up to the very top. Best regards, Jeff On Sat, 2010-12-25 at 14:47 +0100, Ronald Hongsermeier wrote: > I'm wondering a bit what you mean-- if you turn the stove 90° on an > axis > you'd have a side load horizontal draft-- I'm not just playing > semantic > tricks here: the chief gain in the TLUD is the even distribution of > natural airflow optimized for the whole of the pyrolysis plane. Turn > that on its side and you've ruined at least two of the prime factors > that make it work so well. Or do you mean something completely > different? _______________________________________________ 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
