On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 10:33:05PM +0100, AJH wrote: > > > >" Directing unburnt combustibles between two glowing very hot surfaces (or > >variations of same idea) should help to ignite them." > > I think this is a bit like the "gas wick" function in the idd stove, I > actually doubt the effect is any more than controlling the gas > velocities to match the flame speed, anyway there is a cost in heating > the surfaces to above spontaneous combustion temperature and that is > heat loss through the surfaces unless you have access to kaowool type > insulation, now a catalytic surface is something else! Has anyone looked into some sort of cheap, easily obtainable catalytic material? I suppose the cat converters which fit on the stove pipe of many wood heating stoves would be about the right size, but probably too expensive. -- Harmon Seaver CyberShamanix http://www.cybershamanix.com - Stoves List Archives and Website: http://www.crest.org/discussion/stoves/200209/ http://crest.org/discussiongroups/resources/stoves/ > Stoves List Moderators: Ron Larson, ronallarson@qwest.net Elsen L. Karstad, elk@wananchi.com www.chardust.com Other Biomass Stoves Events and Information: http://www.crest.org/articles/static/1/1010424940_7.html Bioenergy http://www.crest.org/articles/static/1/1011975339_7.html Gasification http://www.crest.org/articles/static/1/1011975672_7.html Carbon List-Post: <mailto:stoves@crest.org> List-Help: <mailto:stoves-help@crest.org> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:stoves-unsubscribe@crest.org> List-Subscribe: <mailto:stoves-subscribe@crest.org> > For information about CHAMBERS STOVES >http://www.repp.org/discussiongroups/resources/stoves/Chambers/Chambers.htm
