[Stoves] Steam Powered Forced Air TLUD

[James Hensel]

A recent thread has discussed steam injection first as a method from
producing H2 and then to induce draft.  An alternative might be to use steam
to power a fan.  This could be accomplished by directing a steam jet
obliquely to the fan blade itself.  My guess is that this would move more
air than the steam injection itself if the goal was to induce draft.  The
energy in the steam would be diminished (work to move the fan) but some of
the heat would be recycled in the air flow.

 

One could imagine two steam producing jets.  One would come from a very
small reservoir that would heat up quickly and thus power the fan sooner in
the burn.  The second could be sized to produce sufficient steam energy for
the entire batch of the TLUD with the idea that it would start producing
steam as the first reservoir ran dry.

 

James F. Hensel

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