[Stoves] Aside on coconut husks- continued

[Crispin Pemberton-Pigott]

Dear Friends

Paul's conclusion is exactly what I had to do to get the fuel into the stove 
and burn it, more the former than latter reason.

>1.  Cut in half each wedge.

This required a hand saw.  I cut it down further because the Tsotso 
combustion chamber is quite small.

Each piece if quite light and at a reasonable 8-10 gm per minute burn rate 
fuel had to be added so often it was inconvenient.  It did burn cleanly when 
the stove was hot.  It smoked like crazy when there wsa no flame.

All I wanted to do at the time was to prove it was possible to burn it 
cleanly.  I had great difficulty in obtaining husks which are not available 
in Swaziland (there is only one coconut plam in the whole country). t took 
months to collect enough husks to run the experiment!

Conclusion: moisture content is not an issue as they dry quickly.  They 
ignite well enough to give a pretty clean burn.  They easily produce copious 
quantities of dry smoke for a gasifier operation.

Regards
Crispin