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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message -----
<DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A
title=mickgill@skymesh.com.au href="mailto:mickgill@skymesh.com.au">Michael
Gill</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>To<FONT size=3 face="Gill Sans MT"> Improved biomass cooking
stoves.</FONT></B></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><FONT size=3
face="Gill Sans MT"> I have been
looking through the literature on Bio-char and it seems to me that there is a
need for a standard kitchen range to be used in the more developed world. I
would therefore like to put forward my idears for one, in the hope that some
company at present making standard kitchen ranges might eake up the
challenge.</FONT></STRONG></DIV></DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV><FONT
face="Gill Sans MT"> </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT
face="Gill Sans MT">
A Bio-char Cooking Range.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Gill Sans MT"> The outer
appearance should be similar to present ranges such as Aga, Raburn
Etc.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Gill Sans MT">In the firebox there will be heating elements
front and back like standard gas fire elements heated by gas introduced from the
bottom. Through the middle of the firebox runs a closed</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Gill Sans MT">tube.Cylindrical perforated canisters of dry
woodchips are mechanically fed along the </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Gill Sans MT">tube and through the firebox. At the end of the
tube there is a trap-door which opens to drop the canister into a closed
compartment under the range when it reaches a lever at the end of the
tube.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Gill Sans MT"> Gas from the
heated biomass enters the burners drawing in air through venturies heats
the elements and the tube before the hot exhaust gases are drawn round the
oven and up the chimney.</FONT><FONT face="Gill Sans MT">The reusable canisters
of bio-char can be retrieved from the sealed compartment at the bottom of the
range, when convenient.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Gill Sans MT"> To light up the
fire, there should be a small drawer, in which shavings or small sticks can be
used to start a fire that brings the next canister up to gasification
temperature. A small refinement could be made by using a pump to compress some
of the gas into a cylinder that could supply the burners with gas to start the
fire. The speed of the feed and the gas pressure could be controled by a
variable thermostat.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Gill Sans MT"> I do not wish to
patent this idea, but would like to make it available to all kitchen range
manufactures, as I believe that it would fill a gap in the market that should be
filled.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Gill Sans MT"></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Gill Sans MT"> I would be
very interested in trying out sutch a cooking range ifsomeone decided to build
one. my e-mail is <A
href="mailto:mickgill@skymesh.com.au">mickgill@skymesh.com.au</A></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT
face="Gill Sans MT">
Sincerely Michael Gill.</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>