[Stoves] 80 CANDELS STOVE = 7 KW

[Ken Boak]

Andrew, Frans

As a young teenager, I made blowpipe pipettes from narrow bore glass tubing,
and used this to supply extra combustion air into a candle flame.

The result was a long "needle-like" blue flame that could be used for
soldering etc.

Clearly it was no good for lighting purposes, but a very good way of getting
a precsion blue flame.

I wonder whether a wax burning stove could be designed along these lines
where a wick  (like the circular Aladdin paraffin/kerosene heater wicks) is
used to vapourise the wax, and then a series of air jets in the secondary
burner convert the luminous flame to a smokeless blue flame.

Could the same process be used to burn vegetable oils,  a vapourising wick
and then a burner stage with secondary air jets?

Any thoughts appreciated.



Ken