On 4/15/2013 6:53 PM, Alex English wrote:
Paul,
Too much air can be 'bad' even if it creates more turbulence. Too much
turbulence could be 'bad' if it comes at too high a price for the
extra power or hardware. Commercial burner designers might quibble on
the finer point about where the turbulence occurs inside the flame.
Otherwise its hard to argue against more turbulence.
Alex
Paul Anderson replies:
The 3 T's are Time, Temperature and Turbulence. Well, having lots of
turbulence could have a negative impact on the other two.
Time of the gases in the turbulent area might be shortened. It is
certainly shorter than in a longer taller flame.
And if the increased turbulence is hiding excessive secondary air, the
excess air will be cooling the flame and combustion emissions.
And as Alex and Crispin and others have pointed out, when there are no
visible emissions, there could still be improvement of the emissions.
(and CO is not visible anyway).
I think there is serious quantitative work to do concerning the TLUD and
other micro-gasifiers and the high-turbulence "fan-jet" or vortex
stoves. This will NOT be best studied with WBT that take so long and
have so many confounding variables. We need to be watching real-time
results while we make changes in the air flows, etc.
Paul
Paul S. Anderson, PhD aka "Dr TLUD"
Email: [email protected] Skype: paultlud Phone: +1-309-452-7072
Website: www.drtlud.com
On 14/04/2013 10:49 PM, Paul Anderson wrote:
Dear Alex, Lanny, Dean and all,
We are learning things about short flames and flame color that should
have been learn years ago!!! Thank you both (and others) for
getting this information to us.
And Crispin has been telling us all along (and showing up with his
device at ETHOS etc) that a combustion analyzer is useful. We (the
generic we) need to get more serious.
And Dean wrote:
>The very hot yellow/white flames easily make black carbon.
>The less hot deeper yellow/red flames make less/no black carbon.
Notes:
1. Why isn't a combustion analyzer (as used for furnace work) part
of the standard equipment for stove testing, either for formal
protocol testing or for more simple testing at our workshops and
factories?
2. Is this "turbulance" and "forced air" (flame height and color)
information telling us something about the "fan-jet" or "vortex"
stoves like Philips-FA and the Biolite and the RTI FA stove tested in
Kenya and others with STRONG forced air. The Kenya study (presented
by Mike Sage at GACC Forum) found that the emissions were not as low
as were hope for stoves with fans. Is it possible that the extra
turbulence of those stoves is actually working against their lowering
of emissions?
To me, this is BIG and I hope that CSU and Tami and Aprovecho and
testing centers can check on this with modeling and testing. (or
is this basic knowledge in some specialist fields? )
Be sure to read Alex's message below if you have not already done so.
Paul
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