Crispin, You've seen the video of the dome that is red hot. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80REBVTwpMo The dome emits radiant energy in all directions. I placed a shield on the sides of the dome to stop the lateral loss of radiant energy. You can see the shield clearly in the video.
But there is a lot of radiant energy (perhaps half) that goes down to burner and does not heat the pot. I want to put a piece of tin foil about 4 mm above the burner. If it does not touch the burner, it should be more reflective. The idea is to reflect radiant energy back up in the direction of the pot. Does this make sense? What difference should this make? Paul On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 4:27 PM, Crispin Pemberton-Pigott < [email protected]> wrote: > Dear Andrew > > We are definitely on the same page. > > I think this is the money quote: > "...the gases after the wire are cooler than before. both gas streams > before > and after the wire will remain hotter than the wire so the wire will not > contribute heat to them." > > It is a heat sink that is supposed to give radiant heat horizontally into > the room. In this case it is under the pot so there is a double benefit: > direct radiant heat and a lowering of the EA. I think there is combustion > taking place right at the pore creating backpressure, limiting gas flow. > The > effect will be more noticeable as the hole size drops which is just what > Paul reported. > > I find the analysis convincing. > > Regards > Crispin > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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/ > > -- Paul A. Olivier PhD 27C Pham Hong Thai Street Dalat Vietnam Louisiana telephone: 1-337-447-4124 (rings Vietnam) Mobile: 090-694-1573 (in Vietnam) Skype address: Xpolivier http://www.esrla.com/
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