On Sun, 4 Mar 2012 05:44:19 +0700, Paul Olivier wrote: >Someone had left a wire strainer on the floor of the university building >where I was working. >By chance the wire stainer had the same diameter as my burner housing. >When I put it over the burner and burner housing, it fit perfectly and >turned red hot. >I had never felt such heat before. > >So I went to the local market and found wire strainers of finer apertures. >These worked much better than what I first tried.
It all sounds logical to turn a low emissivity flame to radiant heat like this and heat transfer seems the next area for big improvements with a clean burning stove. I imagine as long as the wires are kept above the autoignition point of the gases in the flame or the flame has completely burned out before touching the strainer there won't be much effect. I wonder how this sits compared with the wire gauze in a Davey Safety lamp, which is there specifically to remove the source of ignition from the gases outside? Have you managed to analyse the offgas before it is burnt to see if the blue flame is down to CO or just good premixing? 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/
