[Stoves] Terminology TLUD - PeFiBe-burning-mode

Paul S. Anderson psanders at ilstu.edu
Sat Jan 22 11:26:32 CST 2011


Dear Martin and all,

Regardless of any naming, you have expressed (I believe) the issue of  
the fire ( and air) coming up through the bed of the fire.  Such a  
fire can exist if there is a grate under the bed of embers and fuel.   
But if the fire is on the ground, it seems like the access to the air  
(the necessary oxygen) is conical (point is upward) and on the outside.

Whatever is in the center at the bottom is actually shielded from  
access to the air if the fuel pile is sufficiently large or  
sufficiently "closed" (meaning, no large log present to allow a  
channel of air to get down and into the center of the fire.).

We all talk of the 3-stone fire as if it was one type only.  But the  
placement of the fuel wood and sizes could greatly impact the  
important issues of cook-fires (duration, emissions, etc.).  This  
might have been studied in the past.  It is not on my list of topics  
for research.  Maybe someone else will follow up.

-- 
Paul S. Anderson, PhD
Known to some as:  Dr. TLUD    Doc    Professor
Phone (USA): 309-452-7072   SKYPE: paultlud   Email: psanders at ilstu.edu



Quoting "Boll, Martin Dr." <boll.bn at t-online.de>:

> Dears,
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> Paul (Dr. TLUD), Paal, Andrew and all,
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>             Some days ago Andrew made us look to the rocket-stove as a type
> of stove, which is derived from three-stone fire; e.g. the rocket-stove is
> only fed from one side.
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> Andrew, I didn't answer yet to that. I like this generalizing angle of view!
> It gave me new aspects to see stoves.
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> Paal, as I am interpreting you right, you see TLUD  as a typical manner of
> burning.
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> Paul, you are without doubt Dr. TLUD! You have the merits for that (mostly
> in batch-load-mode running) stoves. And without your concentrated direction
> to and work on that TLUD-stoves, the stoves-community was certainly not so
> successful focussed to that, even myself. And I find, it is a good
> direction.
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> So I am thinking for a long time about TLUD and TLUDs.
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> Since long time In my mind I see the stone-age ancestors sitting near their
> Fire-TV looking their interesting and exciting program. Playing along with
> that, they certainly once pushed a stick under the glowing charcoal. That
> TV-program was possibly the first through fire-bed burning, and possibly
> most exciting for our ancestor, because it made a flame without nasty smoke.
> And I am sure he re-made this with intention. Possibly they called it
> smoke-free-fire in their language.
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> Naturally he did not start his fire as top-lit, because he would not have
> succeeded. But he had a "through-fire-bed-burning", or more scientific
> sounding a _per-fire-bed-burning_.
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> And as English-speakers like to make a word out of abbreviations I would
> propose to call that: PeFiBe- burning.
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> In my opinion this contains that the essential foundation,  what we expect
> by a TLUD.
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> But there are other interesting PeFiBe-stoves, you all know; mainly
> different in the grade of deflection of the vertical direction;
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> even I know an interesting stove run in sky to earth direction (forgive this
> expression, it is only to de-connect from top and bottom of the fire)
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> I propose: let the TLUD-stove be a TLUD-stove. But let us speak about
> PiFiBe-burning, or let us find another new term expressing this
> burning-type, that all those interesting stoves are conform in.
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> We don't want to fight about words, but to have fun together with good
> performing stoves.
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> -A lonely log doesn't like to burn-
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> Regards
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> Martin
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