[Gasification] BIOCOAL - THE WOOD FUEL OF THE FUTURE

[Greg Manning]

Greetings Thomas, and all.

Here truly is the question,

"Heating value" compared to "engine value".

I don't own fancy test equipment (other than a digital K type thermometer
and pitot tube, hand full of In/WC gauges and a flow gauge), so this is
based on speculation and observation.

 .It's my understanding that the "real" heating value is in the charcoal,
and not the "flames" I'm speaking from the standpoint of "warming you to
the core" the way a wood stove does, even though you cannot see the flames,
the infrared portion of the heating value from the glowing charcoal, passes
through the walls of the stove, where as the flames lower light (slower
light frequencies) in the visible portion of the spectrum are less
energetic and only heat the air inside the wood stove itself (causing the
chimney effect within the chimney, through stratification of the said air).

 With that said, does anyone know if my assumption is even somewhat correct
? or am I off on my normal "tangent" of thinking ?

Comments welcome.

Greg Manning




On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 12:11 AM, Thomas Koch <tk at tke.dk> wrote:

> But it will cost 50 % of the heating value of the wood
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