[Stoves] Chinese stove photo sequence

[neiltm at uwclub.net]

On 19 Jan 2017 at 21:50, Frank Shields 
wrote:

> Dear Neil,
> 
> Thank you for your pictures and comments. This is excellent and
> exactly what all the scientist researching stove test methods and 
> testing procedures should be doing. We wait and wait years for them
> to do what you have been doing. 
> 
> Cold frozen wood, different sizes, different packing densities and
> all described as to how well the burn went. These and many other
> conditions need be quantified and testing protocol developed to
> determine best conditions for a specific stove. And aid in best
> stove for a location based on biomass available.  
> 
> Well done!
> 
> Frank
> 

Thank you, pleased if it might be useful.  
I feel quite happy with how it went.  I 
imagine recording accurate emissions 
etc AND photographing the burn might 
be a bit of a handful without assistance 
to be fair to the real scientists, LOL!

The large chunks of zero moisture 
hardwood represent one extreme of 
trying for a sensible flame with zero 
moisture wood.  The other being 
primary air choked by fines, but then 
when the batch is burned there is no 
extending the fire because of the mass 
of fine dead char above the pyrolysis at 
the bottom.  the larger the pieces, the 
easier it gets to extend the burn. In 
terms of best stove for location and fuel 
it is clear to me that this stove is 
optimised by air dried or even slightly 
damp wood, and so highly suitable for 
its intended camping/hiking market in N  
America and europe, much as the Bush 
Buddy is with its wire grate.  I might 
struggle with this stove for a sane fire in 
arid tropical regions, and would aim to 
be able to choke off some of the primary 
air and enjoy the cleaner burn.  But for 
the UK at least with found wood 
camping and hiking, I would say the 
stove was optimal.  The unknown 
Chinese designers knew what they were 
doing when they designed this, although 
the Bush Buddy was prior, so hardly 
without precedent for what works.

Neil Taylor

> 
> 
> > On Jan 19, 2017, at 8:13 PM, neiltm at uwclub.net wrote:
> > 
> > On 20 Jan 2017 at 3:03, 
> > neiltm at uwclub.net wrote:
> > 
> >> Despite this post containing 21 shots
> > 
> > Apologies, there are 18 but should have 
> > been 19, not 21, but I appear to have 
> > missed including the shot at 2' 10", but 
> > not worth worrying about.
> > 
> > Neil Taylor
> > 
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> 
> Frank
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