[Stoves] Grates and chimneys

[Tom Miles Easystreet]

That would be 80% mc dry basis. 100% mc dry basis is 50% wet basis so it's pretty normal for green wood. 

Tom

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On Feb 16, 2012, at 7:59 PM, "Crispin Pemberton-Pigott" <crispinpigott at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks Andrew
> 
> What you are pointing out, and this valuable advice, is that a stove should
> be designed for a fuel with a known moisture content. That wood I mentioned
> won't burn on its own in an open fire (so I am told) and in ideal
> circumstances could be.
> 
> BTW that is a remarkably high MC for spruce. Wow. We never see that. Is it
> from a swamp??
> 
> Regards
> Crispin
> 
> ++++++++
> 
> This is about the mc of fresh spruce or poplar in UK, it will burn poorly in
> a typical wood stove but an industrial wood burner with some heat feedback
> can burn it cleanly. I think there's enough energy in the dry fuel that
> suggest it should be possible to burn material up to
> 80+%mc, though of course ill advised and wasteful. Air drying is
> probably the best use of solar energy we can make.
> 
> AJH
> 
> 
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