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Stoves Archive for May 2002
102 messages, last added Tue Nov 26 17:31:38 2002

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Re: Gasifier fundamental question



In a message dated 04/14/2002 6:33:29 PM Eastern Daylight Time, tombreed@attbi.com writes:



The air fuel ratio for volatiles in a dry fuel is about 1.  For charcoal it
is 6!


Tom, would you be so kind as to elaborate?  I gather that to burn the charcoal, the required air to fuel ratio is 6.  But I'm not clear about what air to fuel ratio is required to gasify the wood.  And what air to fuel ratio is then required to combust the pyrolysis gases?

Thanks
Vernon Harris