[Stoves] PCIA den Haag

[George Wood]

I'm fully in support of some sort of International ratification, so that every stove can be truly 'measured' and determined with a formal world wide accepted rating. I really applaud the idea of an ISO standard for 'stoves', because everybody can then work in a consistent manner to get results.  There is so much 'technical' talk on this listing that I feel many probably do not understand and depending on the base 'fuel' that you are using may or may not be relevant.  I'm looking at rice husks as being fuel and unfortunately, the burning methods of wood do not apply for my project, however understanding the process of pyrolisation does. Do I 'cook' the raw material at 250C or go for a full burn at >800C.  I don't know, but I signed up with this group to try and find out. There are so many conficting reports that I'm more confused than I was at the start. Torrefaction (what temp?); Pyrolisation  (what temp?); or just burn the damn stuff and create Ash as a cement additive?
 It's just so difficult to understand what to do for a newcomer into this field. (I have time; I have some funds; I have access to raw materials locally) Apologies for the rant, but I just want to know which direction to take!  From: tmiles at trmiles.com
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Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2012 07:45:07 -0800
Subject: [Stoves] PCIA den Haag



>From the PCIA meeting in den Haag: The group here in den Haag has put forward an IWA (international Working Agreement) in hopes of establishing a baseline for stove standardization with the ISO.  It's starting at the very basics - VITA WBT 4.0 - but they wanted to start somewhere. Does anyone attending have more to add? Thanks Tom     
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