[Stoves] Fuel Testing

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psanders at ilstu.edu wrote:
> Dear David, Steve, and all,
>
> I am not fully informed about all available tests, and that is why I 
> asked for
> further comments.
>
> I think the tests at the bioenergylist website are focused on the 
> stoves.  I am
> focusing on the fuels.  And trying to be extremely simple.  For 
> example, I do
> not have a target upper temperature, and I certainly do not intend to 
> go all
> the way to boiling.
Hi Paul,  You are correct.  The tests I referred to were for stoves not  
for fuels. 
You have a good idea Paul, once a stove design is blocked in, 
determining performance for specific fuels is important and interesting.

Once you have a protocol please define it for me so we can try to repeat 
it with your stoves here and the fuels we have on hand for this country.

thanks and warm regards to Noeli
D
>
> Each test run requires about 30 minutes including getting a fresh pot 
> of water,
> setting things in place, weighting, and conducting the test while I 
> write down
> the data numbers by hand.
>
> I expect to have at least 10 sufficiently different fuels recorded and 
> compared.
> wood pellets, switchgrass pellets, coconut shells, wood chips, cherry 
> pits,
> corn kernels, fireballs (3? types), bamboo, Stanley-style briquettes,
> miscanthus stems, rice husks, coarse sawdust, and more that are 
> available to me
> now..
>
> And another 10 when I can get my hands on sufficient quantities, 
> including
> fragments of nut types, waste seeds like lapsi of Nepal, dung tablets, 
> jatropha
> press-cake, and mixtures and briquettes of many types.
>
> Because the specific testing is so simple and requires only a clock 
> with second
> hand plus a digital thermometer for the water temperatures, I hope 
> that some
> others might join in.  We want the results to be replicable by others 
> in their
> diverse locations (or we will note important exceptions such as with high
> elevations or whatever we encounter.)
>
> Paul
>
> Quoting CEDESOL Foundation lists <lists.cedesol at gmail.com>:
>
>> Steve,
>> Strangely enough just such standards exist.  Some contributers to the 
>> lists seem to overlook that tool which can be found at 
>> http://bioenergylists.org/en/performance
>>
>>
>