Dear Ron
It was great to see you at the conference – been a long time. Three brief points: 1. Testing TLUD’s and pellet stoves can be used by using the Burn Out Protocol developed for BP. It is reported in detail by Penn Taylor in a paper by him and in an ETHOS presentation (2009) which is available online. Not too sure about accessing the paper. I believe it can be refined further to consider more accurately the stoves that burn the charcoal at the end (Oorja etc) but it is a simple and pretty accurate test of some things like the total energy required to do something. 2. You mention the time required to operate the stove. This is a major consider for the cooks/owners. It rates high on their list of stove attributes in some places. People are busy. It will be on Cecil’s list of social impact assessment questions. 3. Char production as a % of dry fuel mass is easy: remove all ash from the char-ash mix. At present the char is weighed together with the ash with both being counted as unburned charcoal. This was discussed here recently. Regards Crispin
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