[Stoves] pot skirt efficiency estimates, scale-up

[Joshua Guinto]

I cannot help you with the estimates.. but i wish you Good luck Josh  and
congratulations for your upcoming wedding !!

Jed

2012/9/15 Josh Kearns <yeah.yeah.right.on at gmail.com>

> I'm thinking about building a 5-gal TLUD fired 55-gal water heater for
> outdoor showers. I'm wondering if anyone has a ballpark estimate for heat
> transfer efficiency w/ and w/o using a pot skirt attachment. The hot water
> tank will be a 55-gal steel drum, so I think the setup is pretty analogous
> to a cookstove setup, just bigger.
>
> 20%?
>
> Any thoughts are helpful, rough estimates OK.....thanks!
>
>
> FYI, the char from the water heating setup will be used in arbor-loo style
> modular composting toilets. This infrastructure is being installed during a
> rambo design-and-build sesh for my wedding on a farm in rural Appalachia
> (USA), but will be used continually by future events at the site. Cool,
> huh?!?!
>
> Josh
>
>
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