That would be 80% mc dry basis. 100% mc dry basis is 50% wet basis so it's pretty normal for green wood.
Tom T R Miles Technical Consultants Inc. 503-780-8185 [email protected] Sent from mobile. On Feb 16, 2012, at 7:59 PM, "Crispin Pemberton-Pigott" <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Andrew > > What you are pointing out, and this valuable advice, is that a stove should > be designed for a fuel with a known moisture content. That wood I mentioned > won't burn on its own in an open fire (so I am told) and in ideal > circumstances could be. > > BTW that is a remarkably high MC for spruce. Wow. We never see that. Is it > from a swamp?? > > Regards > Crispin > > ++++++++ > > 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/ > _______________________________________________ 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/
