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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-CA link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Dear Friends of Pellet Stoves<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>This just arrive from the Alliance for Green Heat. It is talking about the result of the Pellet Stove Design Competition that was held last week at the Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>A number of wonderful presentations were made – not all are up yet on the link below but some are.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>There were three contenders selected for this year’s competition and they received extensive testing using two completely different approaches. Two were reasonably conventional updraft burners, one with an unusual elongated bowl-shaped combustion chamber with no holes in it. The other was a hopper-fed downdraft stove with a 30 Watt TEG mounted on it. It was very compact, the combustion chamber being no more than 80mm in diameter and mostly blocked with a large disk. The depth of fuel between the primary air entrance and the disk supporting the fuel could be adjusted allowing the total air to be controlled vis-à-vis the total burning surface. In effect, were it a conventional TLUD, it had a fixed bed of fuel with a variable height for the primary air entrance, which was not through the fuel.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>There is no reason it could not be done upwards instead of downwards.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>The fuel feeding was much like Alex English’s home heating stove, but downdraft instead of Alex’s crossdraft. I think if Alex’s stove had been entered it would have won a prize of some kind.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Well done, winners.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Crispin<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> John Ackerly [mailto:jackerly@forgreenheat.org] <br><br></span></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Dear all,<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Here is the <a href="http://forgreenheat.blogspot.com/2016/04/wittus-and-seraph-win-pellet-stove.html">press release</a> from the 2016 Stove Design Challenge, announcing the winners!<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Most of the powerpoints are <a href="http://www.forgreenheat.org/decathlon/panel.html">now available</a>. If you were a speaker and want to post or update your bio or the abstract of your talk, please send it. <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks to those of you who completed the survey to help us assess the event and plan for the next one. If you have not taken the survey yet, <a href="%20https:/www.emailmeform.com/builder/form/ekAa6oWyEpQcVswYCNl97d3">please take it</a> now!<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>More info coming soon about the event on our blog, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/AllianceforGreenHeat/">Facebook page</a> and newsletter. If you have good photos of the event, please send them and we will share with other.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Thank you!<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>John & Gabriella<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal>-- <o:p></o:p></p><div><div><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Alliance for Green Heat<br><span style='color:#141823'>6909 Laurel Ave, #5461</span><br>Takoma Park, MD 20912<br>301-204-9562</span><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><a href="mailto:jackerly@forgreenheat.org" target="_blank">jackerly@forgreenheat.org</a><br><a href="http://www.forgreenheat.org" target="_blank">www.forgreenheat.org</a></span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt'>Like Us on </span><a href="http://www.facebook.com/AllianceforGreenHeat?ref=tn_tnmn" target="_blank"><span style='font-size:18.0pt;color:#1155CC'>Facebook</span></a><span style='font-size:18.0pt'>!</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>