GAS-L: Water tolerance of natural and forced draft WoodGas Stoves

["Thomas Reed" <tombreed@attbi.com>]

Dear Paul and All:

 

Paul has been operating more natural draft WoodGas stoves than Ron and I, since I have "graduated" to forced draft.

 

English and I tested the forced draft stove on wood with 0,10, 20,25 and 30% MCWB.  I was amazed to find that the forced draft stove worked at least as well on 25% moisture as 0%.  The only difference is that with 0% you produce 25% charcoal after the burn, while with 25% you produce only 5%, since the charcoal produced by pyrolysis must be burned in situ to dry the lower layers and propogate the reaction. 

 

How about running these same tests on the Natural Draft WoodGas stove?

 

Yours truly,                    TOM REED        WetWoodGas Stoveworks 

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