[Stoves] 'Noise' level of producing the best stove

[AJH]

On Thu, 15 Jun 2006 10:28:15 -0700, frank wrote:

>Perhaps we need an auto mechanic in the group 
>and design a stove (perhaps only a research stove) using the sensors 
>like what a modern car uses to monitor exhaust, heat, water temperature, 
>CO, O2 CO2 and, using the same controllers a car uses, regulate the 
>inflow air, fuel, heat and whatever else it does based on these 
>readings.

Modern woodchip, pellet and log gasifying furnaces already work closed
loop like this. They tend to use wide band oxygen sensors and monitor
water and exhaust temperature as well as flue oxygen, I have yet to
encounter one with an air mass flow meter.

AJH