[Stoves] Candle powered stove

[Crispin Pemberton-Pigott]

Dear Maurice

 

Quite a  bit of work was done by SASOL on wax-fuelled stoves. Ryan Fowler
(Cape Town) did a Masters degree on the subject.

 

On 23 April 2008 Andrew Parker wrote (here):

 

Last year I downloaded a Master's Thesis, "The Design of a Wax Burning
Stove," by Ryan Fowler of the U of JHB [UJ]. You may have supplied me with
the reference, but I don't remember for sure.  I was thinking that there is
a wealth of information to be had from mining the old patents for lard
lamps.  They were quite common and some were pretty sophisticated, before
cheap kerosene pushed them out of the market in the mid 1800's.

 

If petroleum wax has a consistently higher energy to weight ratio than white
gas and alcohol, I wonder if it might not be a strong competitor in the
light camping market?  It would certainly be safer to store and carry
around.

 

.

Andrew P.

 

Ryan's work will be helpful and especially the lard lamp reference is
valuable to you.

 

Regards

Crispin (also working with UJ, but not at the same time - he is long gone)

 

 

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[mailto:stoves-bounces at lists.bioenergylists.org] On Behalf Of MauricePColgan
Sent: September-27-11 8:39 AM
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Subject: [Stoves] Candle powered stove

 

Ten hour candles can heat a multi-fuel stove hot enough to cook in, or on.
It's still in the experimental phase and feedback would be appreciated. 

 

Please see photos and info by clicking on this non commercial link
http://irelandtoo.blogspot.com . 

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