[Stoves] Understanding TLUDs, MPF and more. (was Re: Bangladesh TLUD )

[Andrew Heggie]

On 13 December 2017 at 05:20, Paul Anderson <psanders at ilstu.edu> wrote:

>
> 2.  Referring to burning charcoal, tell me about lighting of cold CHARCOAL
> on the top.   The reality is that charcoal fires are lit at the bottom
> (bottom burning) and the when the pyrolytic front reaches the bottom of a
> batch TLUD operation, the fire (the glowing char) is at the bottom.
>


I have filled one of my pipe experiments with char and top lit it and
it did behave as a normal top lit stove. I should really try it again
with some char that has been made at such a high temperature that it
contains next to no volatiles.

Andrew