[Stoves] Smoke-free biomass pellet fueled stove

[ajheggie at gmail.com]

[Default] On Sun, 4 Nov 2012 11:54:00 -0800,"Tom Miles"
<tmiles at trmiles.com> wrote:

>I have often wondered how consistent the char is from a TLUD. While the
>maximum heat treat temperature (HTT) is probably consistent, the time that
>the char is exposed to these temperatures probably varies.

Tom Reed used to say that "Denver dry" wood (10%mc wwb) yielded 25%
char from a tlud burn and 25% none, so as the initial mc goes up the
char becomes higher in ash and lower in charcoal. This is because the
enthalpy of water vapour being produced has to be provided by heat
from burning char.

AJH