[Stoves] Wick Burners: Martin's Tea Time Candle Stove

[Crispin Pemberton-Pigott]

Dear Friends

I have not taken the time needed to test the emissions of candles burning in a group, but if you can walk into a room with 3 candles burning and smell wax (which you can) then they are not burning very cleanly.

Something that surprised me a few weeks ago was the very high CO level in the emission from an alcohol gel stove (6% COr).

Because of the small flame and the relatively low volatility of the wax in a candle stove, I expect the CO level to be higher.  For a given fuel, air temp and flow there is probably a relationship between the volume of the flame and its surface area that is directly related to the CO level.  Chilling it by running the flame against a pot (like most alcohol stoves) makes it work even less efficiently.

An alcohol gel candle stove might burn cleanly....

Regards
Crispin

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Boll, Martin Dr. 
Subject: Re:Re: [Stoves] Wick Burners: Martin's Tea Time Candle Stove

 
jason marshall wrote:
I would certainly be concerned about CO from burning a large number of candles.  But CO is not bioaccumulative.