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<div style="font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; color: inherit;">I've been working with a new stove design that is showing a lot of promise to char a load of wood.</div>
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<div style="font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; color: inherit;">The stove has no primary air holes in the Fuel chamber.</div>
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<div style="font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; color: inherit;">A 3 1/2" metal screen cylinder is placed in the center of the fuel chamber (16 quart bucket with a lid with a 4" exhaust hole) Wood Pellets are added around the screen and filled to the
top, just below the air inlets. The screen leaves an open hole in the fuel chamber from the top to the bottom.</div>
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<div style="font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; color: inherit;">I then added soil on top of the fuel Pellets. I packed it about an inch deep next to the screen and kept adding the soil over the top of the pellets, but left a 1" ring of exposed pellets
next to the fuel chamber walls. This "ring" supplies the primary air. </div>
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<div style="font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; color: inherit;">I add 1/4 cup of gasoline into the bottom of the screen, then ignite the gas.</div>
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<div style="font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; color: inherit;">The flame starts the pellets burning at the bottom. As the oxygen becomes depleted the flame works itself up the screen to the top of the fuel bed. Once the flame reaches the top it only
wood gas is burning. The secondary air is supplied through the two vortex vents on the sides of the fuel chamber. The soil on top prevents the flames from burning the top of the fuel load. The lid is now installed.</div>
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<div style="font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; color: inherit;">I'm not 100% certain how exactly the "flame front" works in this stove, but it is somehow not burning from the top down, but from the inside out. Most likely bottom up and inside out at
the same time.</div>
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<div style="font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; color: inherit;">Near the end of the burn coals will appear on the outer ring of exposed pellets. They have not started on fire during that process, yet. I expect they could and that would be beneficial.</div>
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<div style="font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; color: inherit;">So far, I've been able to char 95% of the wood and the total fuel volume reduces about 55%. The undercharred pieces remain at the outer edges. </div>
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<div style="font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; color: inherit;">This video is from the end of the burn. You can see glowing embers appearing on the outer ring.</div>
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<div style="font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; color: inherit;">I believe this design has a ton of potential to be very cheap and easy to make. It's not perfect yet, but it is worth taking a look at. </div>
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