[Stoves] Understanding "charcoal making" stoves. Was: energy lost in charcoal making and briquetting

[Jeff Davis]

On Saturday 04 November 2006 12:45 pm, Paul S. Anderson wrote:
> To Kevin: I flatly reject the idea that all stoves are gasifiers.  All
> biomass burning stoves do involve the gasification processes to turn solid
> wood into combustible gases, but the "gasifiers" are the stoves that
> separate the gas creation from the gas combustion, AND have some control
> over both creation and combustion.  The "Burn-barrel demo" and the
> Karve-Larson charcoal
> making stoves
> do not have that control, and to call them "gasifiers" would diminish the
> descriptive value of all gasifiers.

I just don't know Paul. Kevin has a good point. Lets take a candle and blow 
out the flame, next place a lit match next to the smoke and the candle 
relights. No gas no flame.

Not sure about (pure) charcoal stove.

Maybe Kevin talks of microcosm gasification and Paul talks of macrocosm 
gasification.


Best regards,

Jeff



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