[Stoves] Drying of fuels adjacent to stove

[Paul Anderson]

Stovers,

I edited Richard Stanley's message below to focus on fuel drying.   I 
think the idea is great!!!

And it can be expanded to be small wire baskets that can hang on the 
sides or other means to keep the fuel close to the warm sides of the 
stoves.

Many of the current configurations of TLUD stoves could adopt this 
drying method very easily.

Alternatively for easily portable heat sources like many TLUDs, the fuel 
for drying could be in a "cage" or rack of some type into which the TLUD 
unit is placed, and then removed as in normal TLUD usage.

SAFETY NOTE:  Fires should not be unattended, and fires near fuels that 
are being dried present even greater risks.   But this is because of 
wayward sparks.   In the absence of sparks, however, merely drying the 
fuels should not cause spontaneous combustion.  Instead, the biomass 
might start to reach some torrification (like the over-browning of a 
piece of toast), which is not combustion.

Stovers should consider ways to dry fuels using "waste" ambient heat 
near the stoves.

Paul

Paul S. Anderson, PhD  aka "Dr TLUD"
Email:  psanders at ilstu.edu   Skype: paultlud  Phone: +1-309-452-7072
Website:  www.drtlud.com


On 6/5/2012 2:21 PM, Richard Stanley wrote:
> George,
>  ... snip ...
>   You could even add a small fingers to hold briquettes alongside to 
> super dry them for two benefits:  near instant and near smokeless 
> ignition, and  emission of desired aromas  (eg., eucalyptus leaf 
> blends for  flea /mozzie repellents, and lemon grass, cedar etc., 
> etc., as used tradtionally for medicinal / cerimonial 
> purposes---without smoke). You could, alternatively ... [use]...  
> sheet metal riveted or fastened by simple slots in stove wall with 
> matching bent tangs in the plate.
>
> Heres a simple 3D sketch of the  idea; am only guessing at stove shape 
> and configuration

[DrTLUD says:  I was not able to attach Richard's diagram.  Imagine a 
peg sticking out from the side of a TLUD stove, with a holey briquette 
on that peg.  Or you can see it in his original message to the Stoves 
List. and it should be in the Archives of the Stoves Listserv.   ]
>
> Richard Stanley
> www.legacfound.org <http://www.legacfound.org>
>
>
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