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

[Paul S. Anderson]

Crispin and all,

In my limited work with alcohol, I have noticed the vast difference 
between the
flames of large-opening burners (like 3 to 4 cm diameter opening for chaffing
dishes and I suspect like the tops of gel-fuel containers) in contrast to the
numerous mini-holes (less than 1 millimeter) found in the Trangia burners and
Beverage Can Stoves (see wikipedia).

I suspect that gel-fuel will not burn from a container with the mini-holes.

Paul

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Quoting Crispin Pemberton-Pigott <crispin at newdawn.sz>:

> 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.
>
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