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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>In addition to particulate monitoring, CO monitoring, and stove performance testing (of various kinds) it's also important to make a stove of durable materials, that will be useful and efficient in normal day-to-day conditions. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> Tim Theiss Presented some data from Oak Ridge National Labs where they investigated the durability of metals used to build stove, and presented the results at ETHOS 2015. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The pdf of the presentation is about 10 MB and is on the ETHOS site: <a href="http://www.ethoscon.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/DOE-Tim-Theiss-Combustion-Materials-Durability-Relationships-for-Improved-Low-Cost-Clean-Cookstoves.pdf">http://www.ethoscon.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/DOE-Tim-Theiss-Combustion-Materials-Durability-Relationships-for-Improved-Low-Cost-Clean-Cookstoves.pdf</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Things I liked about their durability testing:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> - They used salted wood and higher temperatures to test the squares of metal alloys.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> - They used in situ testing and then figured out a way to mimic many of the same conditions in a lab furnace.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- They specifically omitted some high performance alloys and materials where the materials were too costly to include in a cooking stove. (Not that it wouldn't be cool to have a cooking stove made from the same material that you would use for the space program, but I'm glad they were a little more realistic with regard to price). <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>If you have questions for Tim, I can forward them to him and the team that he works with. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>kind regards,<span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>Erin Rasmussen<span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>TR Miles Technical Consultants Inc. <a href="http://www.trmiles.com/">http://www.trmiles.com/</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>and BioEnergy Discussion Lists <a href="http://www.bioenergylists.org/">http://www.bioenergylists.org/</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="mailto:erin@trmiles.com">erin@trmiles.com</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>