[Stoves] The upside of Down feed

[Alex English]

Ron,
As you know small dimensioned biomass generally chars as a first stage 
of combustion. If the char moves into an air starved zone in the furnace 
it will cool a bit and collect. This happens past the end of the grate.  
It forms a long Kilimanjaro shaped mound in the pipe. The peak is about 
half the pipe diameter. Perhaps its a stretch, but it could be described 
as half of a convergent/divergent nozzle. The acceleration over the peak 
seems to prevent further pile growth, a form of mountain top removal, 
char-coal mining. I'm not the first to link coal to Kilimanjaro.

I have not tried to turn it into a char maker. It is possible that a pot 
could be placed under that portion of the pipe, et viola.  For now it 
remains a known unknown.
Alex
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> RWL:   I have totally missed the possibility of a char output in your 
> design.   I can't even see a Venturi possibility..   Can you explain a 
> bit more on how that can be accomplished?   Have you accomplished any 
> char preservation yet?
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> Thanks.    Ron
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