<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><div>You ask:</div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div class="">I have two reasons to ask: </div><div class=""><br class=""></div>a) the importance of fuel chemistry (instead of some pre-specified wood, having a range of locally used biomass or new processed biomass) at various stages of combustion; and, On Jan 27, 2017, at 1:21 AM, Traveller <<a href="mailto:miata98@gmail.com" class="">miata98@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Others will know more; but the chemistry of the biomass (carbon particle density, packing carbon density, void space, fixed and volatile fractions, moisture, ash etc.) is much more important to know than ‘oak’ or ‘spruce’. I believe its the preparation of the gases before entering the secondary thats most important and thinking we might be able to make adjustments if we can learn the mix that burned hot and clean. I’m thinking the helium surrogate thats bled in with the primary air at a very controlled and constant rate will be very useful when monitoring the gases entering the secondary. I’m sure someone must have tried this. Perhaps Tom Reed or Jim Jetter?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Frank </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""><div class="">
<div class="">Thanks</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Frank</div><div class="">Frank Shields</div><div class="">Gabilan Laboratory</div><div class="">Keith Day Company, Inc.</div><div class="">1091 Madison Lane</div><div class="">Salinas, CA 93907</div><div class="">(831) 246-0417 cell</div><div class="">(831) 771-0126 office</div><div class=""><a href="mailto:fShields@keithdaycompany.com" class="">fShields@keithdaycompany.com</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="mailto:franke@cruzio.com" class="">franke@cruzio.com</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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