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

[ken goyer]

Dear friends, In spite of being too busy right now to properly 
participate in the high class discussions that are currently in progress 
on this list, I can't help but post the article I stayed up until 2:30 
A.M. last night writing. This concerns burning charcoal in Uganda. Since 
it is lengthy, I sent it directly to Tom and I hope he will add it to 
the beautiful new website that he (and I'm sure others) has created. 
Thanks to everyone!  Best regards, Ken Goyer

Tom Miles wrote:

>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
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>-----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:
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>>We don't know what the CO or CO/CO2 results are for the New Lao or the CFSP
>>wood burning stoves.
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>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.
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>>That's a project for a Stoves Camp in Cambodia.
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>Sounds good, I wonder if they'll let me in ;-).
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>AJH
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