<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 class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Dear Stovers, </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">None of the tests mean anything useful for the real World for several reasons. We need to have a common measure that can be taken across all biomass fuels (processed like pellets and lumber and wild). This common measure needs to be reproducible with consistent results and easy for all labs to get the same values. This common measure is oven dried biomass ground up and sampled and total energy determined. Then placed into a TGA filled with nitrogen and determine the weight loss when heated to 550c. Then add oxygen and determine the ash. You get three measurements to use:</div><div class="">1) Total energy </div><div class="">2) total energy in the carbon of the fixed char</div><div class="">3) calculated total energy of the volatiles heating the secondary</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">We do not use hydrogen. Unless we measure it. Placing it at 6% means nothing and could later give problems if down the road we have a low or high hydrogen content that affects a fire. That from mixing char into briquettes or having biomass with lots of resins. Should we want to see how that low - high value of hydrogen effects the combustion we run into problems when all the data has been given the value of 6%. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">We do not consider moisture in the calculations because of the many variables and uncertainties if offers. We report moisture in the test results package. But we can always go back to oven dry the fuel and get the dry weight basis results. This is common procedure on COMPARING using dry weight and OPERATIONS using wet as-Received basis. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Then at the back end we complete a task. Boiling water is an excellent task because it represents many cooking tasks. We need a task to represent grilling and frying. It needs to use a common typical food and we need to establish on measuring a sharp end point (task completed).</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Air quality means nothing. Nobody cares about air quality. We are cooking food with what we have available. We can look at air quality from the different devices and see which ones are doing the best - but that is only secondary to getting the task completed. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The biomass used is not called corn cobs and pellets and oak and pine. We need to have a continuum of measures on some type of spider graph to classify the fuel. We can give a ‘visual’ of corncob along with location on the spider graph classification system. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The above will result in:</div><div class="">Top number</div><div class="">1) total energy going to the pot</div><div class="">2) total char that can be produced</div><div class="">3) Total energy in the char that can be produced</div><div class="">Bottom number</div><div class="">1) per time it takes to cook</div><div class="">2) per char that was produced</div><div class="">3) per energy in the char used elsewhere</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Added tests on the raw biomass we can determine fuel used, trees cut etc. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">NOTHING WILL GET DONE UNTIL WE DO THE ABOVE! </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""> We do the above then make adjustments on the 6-Box system to optimize the system. Air quality is just one of the parameters we use when optimizing. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">We have a lot of work to do….</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Regards</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><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jun 1, 2017, at 1:43 PM, Crispin Pemberton-Pigott <<a href="mailto:crispinpigott@outlook.com" class="">crispinpigott@outlook.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">
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<span style="font-family: 'Slate Pro'; font-size: initial; text-align: initial; line-height: initial;" class="">If they both used the same stoves and protocol, the result is as defective as the protocol. WBT3.0, which was not peer reviewed just as the Aprovecho-modified
v3.1 wasn't, doesn't give a meaningful fuel consumption value (because of the char energy deduction error. For emissions, that is a crap-shoot because the uncertainty of the Aprovecho-made PM test equipment is at least 50%.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Slate Pro'; font-size: initial; text-align: initial; line-height: initial;" class="">As Fabio Riva meticulously pointed out (in his peer reviewed journal article), the combination of the WBT and a PEMS hood was not able to definitely
place more than 75% of 'improved stoves' above 0% improvement even at a confidence interval of 0%. And that is before trying to assign some absolute value for the performance, just 'is it better at all?'</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Slate Pro'; font-size: initial; text-align: initial; line-height: initial;" class="">What does "within 20%" mean if the uncertainty is 50%?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Slate Pro'; font-size: initial; text-align: initial; line-height: initial;" class="">WBT3.0 doesn't even correctly report the mass of water boiled and the conceptually erroneous fuel consumption formula is what was 'corrected'
in v3.1 so how can it rate performance?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Slate Pro'; font-size: initial; text-align: initial; line-height: initial;" class="">Unless the EPA used the same defective calculations, there is no way they could get a comparable result. If I gave the same stoves to the Brookhaven
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and related benchmarks of performance</a> Energy for Sustainable Development, Volume 14, Issue 3, September 2010, Pages 161–171. <a id="m_40031303913156757gmail-m_-8480175243422117790m_-7489178529164243999m_2727990310147322201gmail-ddDoi" class="m_40031303913156757gmail-m_-8480175243422117790m_-7489178529164243999m_2727990310147322201gmail-S_C_ddDoi" href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.esd.2010.06.002" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(49,108,157); font-family:arial,helvetica,"lucida sans unicode","microsoft sans serif","segoe ui symbol",stixgeneral,"cambria math","arial unicode ms",sans-serif; font-size:13px; text-decoration:none; border:0px; margin:0px; padding:0px; vertical-align:baseline">http://dx.doi.org/10.<wbr class="">1016/j.esd.2010.06.002</a>.</div>
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This is engineering madness. Standard fuel, standard pots, standard water. No cook, just the theologians of thermodynamics. I am surprised Tom Miles thinks I am crazy to call that the dominant paradigm of stovers needs to be shaken from the root to the skies.
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