Kevin, your point is why a stainless steel screen might work better than expected. That, or a chrome or nickel-plated mild steel one.
Some people make the radiator out of plated expanded steel mesh. It is not all that hot - maybe 800. The plating means the material has a low emissivity anyway so it could be the H2O and CO2 could be doing a lot of radiation from near the surface. I haven't read anything that came close to saying that though. The fact that the metal is red hot tells you it is not IR. If it was efficient in IR it would be black. Regards Crispin -----Original Message----- From: "Kevin" <[email protected]> Sender: [email protected] Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2012 02:23:24 To: Discussion of biomass cooking stoves<[email protected]> Reply-To: Discussion of biomass cooking stoves <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Stoves] the 150 gasifier in operation in Vietnam _______________________________________________ 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/
