[Stoves] Candle powered stove

[Maurice Colgan]

Thansamillion Crispin, 
 
I will do a little more research and learn. The impact of mass produced long burning Tea Lites candles is very promising as we see the cost of fuels rising rapidly.
 
Cheers, Maurice.
 
 

From: Crispin Pemberton-Pigott <crispinpigott at gmail.com>
To: 'Discussion of biomass cooking stoves' <stoves at lists.bioenergylists.org>
Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2011 5:53 PM
Subject: Re: [Stoves] Candle powered stove


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)
 
 
From:stoves-bounces at lists.bioenergylists.org [mailto:stoves-bounces at lists.bioenergylists.org] On Behalf Of MauricePColgan
Sent: September-27-11 8:39 AM
To: stoves at lists.bioenergylists.org
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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