Re: Water tolerance of natural and forced draft WoodGas Stoves

["Paul S. Anderson" <psanders@ilstu.edu>]

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I have no conditions to measure percent of moisture, etc.  I know it
is easy, but zero time for this.  Maybe at the ETHOS group at Iowa
State.  I could provide some stoves (so simple).  I plan to
visit there in late  Feb.  Or are others wanting to do
this?  

I doubt that there would be any differences from what Tom has already
measured.

Paul

At 06:00 AM 2/12/02 -0700, Thomas Reed wrote:
> 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

Paul S. Anderson, Ph.D.,  Fulbright Prof. to Mozambique 8/99 - 7/00

Rotary University Teacher Grantee to Mozambique >10 mo of 2001-2003

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