[Stoves] Burning wet wood

[Crispin Pemberton-Pigott]

Dear Frank

 

Burning very dry wood is difficult and it makes a lot of smoke. That is why
stoves should not be evaluated with very dry wood when they are designed to
burn 'ordinary wood'.

 

If you get the conditions right for the early fire they are
double-guaranteed o be wrong for the late fire. Much better a continuous
input of damp material.

 

Regards

Crispin

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Dear Crispin, Tom and all,

 

I would think a batch mode would be better. A continuous mode means you have
water vapor all the time. In batch mode one would heat and find the gas
temperature goes to 100c. Then when the water is finally burned off the
temperature rises and you can then push the fuel forward to do what you want
to do with the now dry wood. Not sure this happens and have not seen a graph
of this but think this is what would happen.   

 

Frank

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