Stovers,
I edited Richard Stanley's message below to focus on fuel drying. I
think the idea is great!!!
And it can be expanded to be small wire baskets that can hang on the
sides or other means to keep the fuel close to the warm sides of the
stoves.
Many of the current configurations of TLUD stoves could adopt this
drying method very easily.
Alternatively for easily portable heat sources like many TLUDs, the fuel
for drying could be in a "cage" or rack of some type into which the TLUD
unit is placed, and then removed as in normal TLUD usage.
SAFETY NOTE: Fires should not be unattended, and fires near fuels that
are being dried present even greater risks. But this is because of
wayward sparks. In the absence of sparks, however, merely drying the
fuels should not cause spontaneous combustion. Instead, the biomass
might start to reach some torrification (like the over-browning of a
piece of toast), which is not combustion.
Stovers should consider ways to dry fuels using "waste" ambient heat
near the stoves.
Paul
Paul S. Anderson, PhD aka "Dr TLUD"
Email: [email protected] Skype: paultlud Phone: +1-309-452-7072
Website: www.drtlud.com
On 6/5/2012 2:21 PM, Richard Stanley wrote:
George,
... snip ...
You could even add a small fingers to hold briquettes alongside to
super dry them for two benefits: near instant and near smokeless
ignition, and emission of desired aromas (eg., eucalyptus leaf
blends for flea /mozzie repellents, and lemon grass, cedar etc.,
etc., as used tradtionally for medicinal / cerimonial
purposes---without smoke). You could, alternatively ... [use]...
sheet metal riveted or fastened by simple slots in stove wall with
matching bent tangs in the plate.
Heres a simple 3D sketch of the idea; am only guessing at stove shape
and configuration
[DrTLUD says: I was not able to attach Richard's diagram. Imagine a
peg sticking out from the side of a TLUD stove, with a holey briquette
on that peg. Or you can see it in his original message to the Stoves
List. and it should be in the Archives of the Stoves Listserv. ]
Richard Stanley
www.legacfound.org <http://www.legacfound.org>
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