On Mon, 13 Feb 2012 11:42:44 -0500, Crispin Pemberton-Pigott wrote: >That said, there is wood growing is Southern Africa with a 66% WWB moisture >content. It will not support combustion on its own. In other words it can't >burn hot enough to dry itself.
This is about the mc of fresh spruce or poplar in UK, it will burn poorly in a typical wood stove but an industrial wood burner with some heat feedback can burn it cleanly. I think there's enough energy in the dry fuel that suggest it should be possible to burn material up to 80+%mc, though of course ill advised and wasteful. Air drying is probably the best use of solar energy we can make. AJH _______________________________________________ Stoves 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/stoves_lists.bioenergylists.org for more Biomass Cooking Stoves, News and Information see our web site: http://www.bioenergylists.org/
