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

[Jeff Davis]

On Sunday 05 November 2006 08:27 am, Kevin Chisholm wrote:
> > But all gasifier systems (for example WWII car/truck gasifiers) are
> > basically
> > stoves as a matter of fact they were called stoves. The engine is where
> > the
> > gas is burned and the engine is a heat engine. So this is basically a
> > large
> > T-LUD. Gasifier and the engine is the top burner."
>
> Similarly, if we go into "black box mode", we have two possibilities for
> analysis:
>
> 1: The Total System:
>
> Inputs: Fuel and Air
> Outputs: Mechanical power, heat, and products of combustion



Mechanical power is motion and heat is motion. All WWII gasifiers were and are 
stoves and were/are close coupled just like the T-LUD. The T-LUD is external 
combustion (EC) and the engine (WWII stove) is internal combustion (IC).




> Everyone will agree that the devices Doug Williams produces are true
> gasifiers. If we do a "black box" around his gasifiers, we see the
> following:

That is totally incorrect. Doug Williams devices are stoves, just like the 
WWII devices called stoves.


Best regards,


Jeff
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Jeff Davis
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