[Stoves] How do you turn down a wood fire?

[Crispin Pemberton-Pigott]

Dear Lanny

 

It requires either limiting the primary air supply that drives the evolution
of gases while permitting the secondary to reach the gases, or removing some
of the fuel.

 

The use of staged combustion is going to be the most popular with inventers
and the removal of fuel is the most popular with current users of open
fires.

 

Where the fuel is dependent on a 'feed rate' the feed rate can be changed.
That is used in wood pellet furnaces, for example, and LPG cookers - after
all, turning the knob changes the fuel feed rate.

 

Regards

Crispin

 

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Turning down a wood fire

How do you limit the reaction without starving the reaction of enough oxygen
for clean combustion?

How do you control a wood fire?

Lanny Henson

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