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

[frank]

Stovers,
I'm thinking the best way to measure how well a stove is working for 
cooking is to take the  'test pot' for the WBT(?) procedure  and place 
it on the stove dry and have a heat sensor stuck to the inside bottom 
center. That way the measure of heat is immediate and not buffered by 
the water. Object is to keep the bottom of the pot as hot as can be as 
long as possible when burning the test wood (or any fuel). You can 
adjust the air flow, direction or placement and as soon as you adjust it 
the heat sensor will give the results. If the heat was plotted you could 
measure the area under the curve to see how well it did compared to 
other experiments. If the changers in the air was controlled by the heat 
sensor  (starts to cool so turns up the flow or changes the angle it 
shoots onto the wood) I think by watching it would help to design stoves.

But I don't make stoves.  I just wash and cook compost and wish I was 
making stoves.

Frank

 



AJH wrote:

>On Thu, 15 Jun 2006 16:24:41 -0500, Harmon Seaver wrote:
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>>Have you looked at the Kuenzel boilers? 
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>I service 2 Kunzel pl25s and a kunzel log downdraught gasifier and
>some bigger KOB chip burners and one KOB cordwood gasifier. All have
>closed loop control.
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>The control system looks straightforward and the controllers are
>adaptable via the software interface, I expect they are just
>programmable chips as opposed to proper computer control. The KOBs
>come with a laptop with real time display but the software is
>proprietary.
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>AJH
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