[Stoves] Modified traditional Mongolian stove - pictures

[Jeff Davis]

Dear Ronald,


Maybe it's called the Rocket Stove and maybe not.

I have not built small TLUD's but have built large designs about the
size of two 5 gallon drums. Removing the charcoal, for this size, is
difficult. A door could be built in at the expense of added complexity.
The other problem that I ran into was that some fuels (particle
size/shapes) cause uneven stratification. In other words burning fuel
can fall down to a lower level, a gravity issue.

I have a 2000 gallon tank (~2m x 5m) that I'm considering using as a
large TLUD to carbonize weed bales in. It would be easier to unload if
it was horizontal but I would think that there would be an air space at
the top because it would be difficult to stack the fuel up to the very
top.


Best regards,



Jeff 


On Sat, 2010-12-25 at 14:47 +0100, Ronald Hongsermeier wrote:
> I'm wondering a bit what you mean-- if you turn the stove 90° on an
> axis 
> you'd have a side load horizontal draft-- I'm not just playing
> semantic 
> tricks here: the chief gain in the TLUD is the even distribution of 
> natural airflow optimized for the whole of the pyrolysis plane. Turn 
> that on its side and you've ruined at least two of the prime factors 
> that make it work so well. Or do you mean something completely
> different?