[Stoves] Blue Flame -- Natural Draft -- Rice Husk

Dean Still deankstill at gmail.com
Fri Aug 23 17:54:57 CDT 2013


Hi Marc,

Blue flame in natural draft stoves is often seen when burning CO. It does
not necessarily mean that the flame is very hot or very clean as in forced
air stoves.

Best,

Dean


On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 8:33 PM, Marc-Antoine Pare <marcpare0 at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I've managed to repeat blue flames consistently in a rice husk stove using
> only natural draft.
>
> Anyone seen this before? I am only aware of forced air stoves that achieve
> blue flames.
>
> The photo below is just a teaser. The lighting is terrible and you can't
> make out the column of blue flame because I'm shooting straight down.
>
> The smell is also quite motivating. Usually you get acquainted with the
> "smell of defeat" with rice husk, since poor combustion smells quite
> strong. So far, achieving odor on par with forced air units.
>
> More soon...
> This will be part of a completely Open Source project
>
> [image: Inline image 1]
>
> marc
> notwandering.com
>
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