[Stoves] Gas Sensing

[Kevin Chisholm]

Dear Lanny

The 500 gms of bone dry oak would require about 90 cubic feet of air for 
combustion under conditions of zero excess air.  There is insufficient 
air to permit complete combustion to CO2. Carbon Monoxide would abound, 
probably at lethal levels.

Kevin

Lanny Henson wrote:
> I have 80 cubic feet of room and I want to burn 500 grams of oak.
> What percentage of the 02 will be converted assuming  there is good 
> combustion?
> Will I have enough 02 as to not effecting the dynamics?
> The exhaust will rise and the fresh air will stay low so the stove may be 
> able to pick up fresh air through most of the burn.
> If that does not work, I will pipe in fresh combustion air, and let some air 
> exhaust at the lowest point.
> Lanny
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Steve Taylor" <Steve at thetaylorfamily.org.uk>
> To: "Discussion of biomass cooking stoves" <stoves at listserv.repp.org>
> Sent: Saturday, February 09, 2008 8:01 AM
> Subject: Re: [Stoves] Gas Sensing
>
>
>   
>> Lanny Henson wrote:
>>     
>>> LH- I like this idea, I am also planning to set up a sealed room to test
>>> stoves. I was planning to do a complete test burn inside a sealed room 
>>> with
>>> a known volume and then check the gas levels.
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>> How realistic can that be ? As the O2 burns the whole dynamics of the
>> burn are likely to be altered, if the room is small enough to have a
>> significant change in gas ratios.
>>
>> Steve
>>
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