[Stoves] Coal and biochar stoves

Todd Albi todd.r.albi at gmail.com
Thu Sep 24 15:03:13 CDT 2015


Thanks Crispin,

Agreed!

On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 12:05 PM, Crispin Pemberton-Pigott <
crispinpigott at outlook.com> wrote:

> Dear Todd
>
> You raise an interesting point and it should not be missed.
>
> Wood and coal both contain mercury, sulphur, lead, uranium and other heavy
> metals, and the fire emissions contain fly ash‎, polycyclic aromatic
> hydrocarbons, numerous chemical species, and particles of incomplete
> combustion including condensed volatiles.
>
> It would not be fair to ignore the emissions from any fire. Also it is
> unfair to require testing on coal fires and not wood fires. The inherent
> emissions are different for different fuels. Categories of fuel include:
>
> Wood
> Other biomass
> Peat lignite
> Coal
> Semi-coked fuels
> Coke
> Charcoal
> Densified biomass
> Torrefied wood
>
> The toxic contents occur in different concentrations and combinations. It
> is reasonable to assess fuels individually. There are toxic woods and toxic
> coals. There are toxic emissions. Toxicity is strongly dependent on
> concentration.
>
> When you consider what and how well something needs to be burned one rule
> should apply to all. No pet fuels.
>
> Regards
> Crispin
>
> Stovers:
>
> I'm confused.  Coal & Biomass stove disconnect?  No one is discussing the
> dissimilarities.
>
> Is this a logical?  The discussion of coal combustion must address
> Mercury, fly ash and other heavy metal pollution, not just run of the mill
> biomass combustion pollution.  Water and air pollution contamination are
> other major health concerns.  Mining and transporting coal has wide
> documented health impacts.
>
> Don't we have to ask although coal maybe combusted cleanly with very well
> designed stove compared to an inefficient coal stoves, advanced scrubber
> technologies are not affordable or practical for household stoves.
>
> Do any of the biomass stove testing entities have or can afford coal
> emission testing technologies?  Currently I am not aware of any biomass
> testing organization that has the sophistication or equipment for heavy
> metal emission testing, or am I incorrect?
>
> Regards,
>
> Todd Albi, SilverFire,
>
> On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 7:41 PM, Frank Shields <franke at cruzio.com> wrote:
>
> Dear Stovers,
>
> Coal and biomass stoves:
>
> Similarities:
>
> 1) They both have the same goal of producing a clean secondary flame used
> to boil water.
> 2) They both have achieved this goal (Crispin and Dean - and others)
> 3) They both have the three types of energy: a) pyrolysis gases b) solid-C
> > CO and c) CO > CO2
> 4) During optimization the three energy types are adjusted via primary air
> to produce the best ratio.
>
> Because they are so much the same and manipulated the same to optimize
> conditions for the secondary I believe the coal stoves should be included
> in our discussions. They start with different ratios of the three energy
> types and it would be very interesting (to me) to know what the ratio is
> just before entering the secondary flame when burning clean. I wonder if
> they are the same or if we can learn ranges and limits to the ratios we
> need to achieve. As we get better testing techniques to study what goes on
> in combustion chambers it would aid us to include the info from coal stoves.
>
> Real problem is Stove Labs need more money!  That to purchase testing
> equipment for their research, added personal and they should be testing
> more stoves.
>
> as I see it…
>
> Regards
>
> Frank
>
> franke at cruzio.com
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