[Gasification] [Stoves] Comments about T-LUDs - correction

[Thomas Reed]

Dear All:

The "J" stove, developed about 1984 by Mike Antal at U. Hawaii and Peter 
Verhaart (?) in the Netherlands is a VERY simple true downdraft 
gasifier.  I hope this gets comments from both on the origins and maybe 
some pictures of the J stove.  The J stove probably formed my 
development of the TLUD in 1985. 

TOM REED          BEF


Crispin Pemberton-Pigott wrote:
> Dear Paul
>
> It was a very good explanation of air supply.  I agree that DD mode is 
> difficult to do on a small scale.
>
> A Vesto (there is more than one form of a Vesto) is able to switch between 
> the charcoal making and charcoal burning modes with a lever.  Some stoves 
> can be 'banked' (air shut off) to burn very slowly through the night, for 
> example.  The thing is the old ones are not doing this to create gas for 
> remote burning so they have to have chimneys and they smoke.
>
> Your explanation serves to explain well why it is worth taking the trouble 
> (ie. make parts) to be able to go between wood burning, charcoal gasifying 
> and charcoal making modes in a stove.  The 'deliverables' are 'control', 
> 'turn down ratio' and 'clean burning'.
>
> In my experience close coupling the gas burning to the gas generating is 
> more reliable if the stove is small.
>
> Regards
> Crispin 
>
>
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