<div dir="ltr">Hi,<br>thank you for your information.<br><br>On our website you can find email addresses of companies and people.<br><a href="https://www.skymem.info">https://www.skymem.info</a><br><br>In short, it’s like Google for emails.<br><br>Best regards,<br>Robert,<br>Skymem team<br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Oct 12, 2022 at 11:26 PM Crispin Pemberton-Pigott <<a href="mailto:crispinpigott@outlook.com">crispinpigott@outlook.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg-5088543593245295687">
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Dear Neil</div>
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Hey! Long time. My theory which is only informed by way too much time spent trying to burn everything under the sun is this:</div>
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Fuel moisture moderates the rate at which gases evolve from biomass, with other factors being the oil content (gummy wood), density, porosity, ash content and the volatile fraction of the total mass (which is to say, the ash-free carbon content in reverse. </div>
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If you want to make smoke, you heat a mass of fuel all at once and starve it of sufficient air. This is easy to demonstrate - toss a big pile of leaves onto a fire making sure to cover all visible flame. It will smoke like crazy. </div>
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Set the same pile of leaves in a long "chain" on the ground and light it one end. It will burn rather cleanly to the other end. What is the difference? In case one you have a lot of fuel being heated underneath by char and hot fuel with hardly any air to
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Take a cylindrical stove and put in wood with a fire, and slow keep adding fuel until at some point, the flames are heating enough wood to produce more gases than there is air to burn it properly. Now it is smoking. Whatever amount that is, instead of putting
in less fuel, use wetter wood, say 3% more moisture. This will moderate the burn and it will be clean(er). </div>
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If you have a really decent fire burning away in a fireplace or stove, and add totally dry wood, it will nearly explode into gases as fast as it can, with big self-accelerating flames pushing out combustible gases. </div>
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One can build a stove to handle very dry material, but most are not tuned to that. So they work best with 12% Denver dry wood. </div>
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I have observed that to burn wood grown in a desert, like Chad or Niger, the designed has to treat it as dry: limited fuel heating by having no primary air preheating, preheated secondary air. That fuel is gummy and dry. Terrible stuff to burn clean. </div>
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If you know it is green and damp like an EPA wood stove test, you preheat the fuel and air well, then try to limit the power by total air restriction/control. Retain the heat, roast the fuel slowly and have adequate secondary air. But not too much. Most stoves
have way too much air going through them, a rocket stove on medium power, for example. They have 6 to 10 times too much air going in. </div>
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The hot water vapour has an effect on the particle agglomeration somehow. Smaller particles are easier to burn out - acting more like gases. </div>
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Somehow it all adds up. </div>
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<div>On 12 Oct 2022 at 0:46, Crispin Pemberton-Pigott wrote:<br>
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> There is a general rule which that biomass burns best (most cleanly and<br>
> completely) when it is NOT completely dry, unless you have a special<br>
> combustor.<br>
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Can you explain why that should be so Crispin?<br>
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I feel this is right from my own experience, but also remember those <br>
running internal combustion engines from woodgas said the same thing. <br>
Their theory was that they were 'cracking' the water into hydrogen <br>
and oxygen, and got better performance than with totally dry wood.<br>
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Best wishes, Neil Taylor, (still regularly cooking with wood, but <br>
mostly these days with my original StoveTec rocket stove when not <br>
camping, and utilising a large BBQ hand crank fan for forced air, <br>
turned slowly in the early stages to avoid smoke.)<br>
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