Dear Dale
I believe it is easiest to burn wet wood in a continuous feed fashion. I have had some recent experience in Indonesia trying burn wet (pretty damp) wood in a TLUD. Some TLUD's heat pretty much all the wood at once (they vary). When that happens there is a huge burst of moisture in the emissions. This is visible on the HPT data quality check chart as depressed\xAD\xF4O2 and \xAD\xF4 CO2 lines (they should depress in synch). The evaporation of all the moisture early makes for problems later because then the wood it so dry it won’t stop self-pyrolysing. In other words if combustion conditions favour wet wood, later they do not favour dry wood remaining. Tom has some experience, as does UK-Andrew in burning pretty wet biomass. The essential point is to keep the primary combustion zone hot enough to run the fire and still evaporate all that moisture. Heat recycling is by far the easiest way to do that. Good to hear from you. Any recent experiments to repot? I have missed your great lab work. Regards Crispin +++++++ Have we ever looked at the question of how to design a stove to burn wood that is higher in moisture? It would seem that this is very important practical issue, and that a stove that could burn wet wood would be very popular. What makes a stove burn wet wood well or poorly? The only time I remember someone saying something about this was Crispin, who I believe said recently that preheating the primary air makes it possible to burn wetter wood. This would be easy with a batch stove, harder with continuous feed. Other than that, I can think of a couple things that might help burn wetter wood. Dale Andreatta
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