[Stoves] RE: Henson Center Fiure Burner System; Was:Re:improving charcoal stoves

[Tom Miles]

The creativity on this list is amazing. Andrew is making gas analyzers from
fish tanks. Lanny is making stoves from coat hangers and tin cans. . . .

It reminds me of the line from a movie, "Give him a Swiss army knife and
he'll build you a shopping mall" or something like that. 

Tom


-----Original Message-----
From: AJH [mailto:list at sylva.icuklive.co.uk] 
Sent: Saturday, June 03, 2006 11:20 AM
To: Tom Miles
Cc: 'Stoves'
Subject: Re: [Stoves] RE: Henson Center Fiure Burner System;
Was:Re:improving charcoal stoves

On Sat, 3 Jun 2006 10:27:24 -0700, Tom Miles wrote:

>We don't know what the CO or CO/CO2 results are for the New Lao or the CFSP
>wood burning stoves.

Since posting on this subject I have been frantically trying to
assemble a device to try and do that. My bucket is the charcoal
starter bucket that Greg, an early poster to this list, sent me but
with the sides lined with 13mm cerablanket.

I have been trying to adapt a hot wire CO meter, designed for amateur
car enthusiasts, that measures the thermal conductivity of exhaust gas
to judge the CO content. Of course it expects the flue effluent from
burning petrol, i.e. nitrogen, CO2 and water as well as the CO. Our
charcoal burner should not have much water in comparison.

The chief problem I have is that its internal pump depends on the
pulsation from a car exhaust to deliver a measured amount of gas to
the hot wire. I'm going to look for a pulsating pump as used in
aquaria to see if I can adapt this.


> That's a project for a Stoves Camp in Cambodia.

Sounds good, I wonder if they'll let me in ;-).

AJH