[Stoves] [Gasification] New model WoodGas Campstove

[Charlie Sellers]

Funny that Tom R finally mentions a secondary air occlusion ring, though you need something that has a strong spring force and can take the temperature.  NOT aluminum (won´t block them tightly enough), but stainless steel.  Sometime try burning straight charcoal like this and see what the burn rate (grams per minute) or firepower looks like.
   
  c
   
  

jim mason <jimmason at whatiamupto.com> wrote:
  On Jan 2, 2008 4:37 PM, Thomas Reed wrote:
>
> It has always been our intention to get woodgas stoves into the hands of
> those that need it most - and can afford it least. We are happy to see
> many people experimenting with WoodGas stoves and I hope that an
> apartment sized stove will appear soon, since poor city people have the
> double problem of indoor cooking, usually with kerosene or propane, and
> the rising costs of hydrocarbon fuels.
>


well actually, some of us very urban denizens of berkeley california
cook indoors (of a warehouse) with three of the reed woodgas stoves
hooked together into a "triple grill".

you can easily make a combining attachment that hooks into the handle
band on the stove. three together are much more stable, and allow for
easy change over when new fuel is needed, or multiple dishes at a
time.

wood pellets work very well in them. the consumption is surprisingly
low for the results.

jim




> While our campstove will burn almost any biomass, it particularly likes
> pellets AND seeds, nuts, etc. that aren't usually considered to be fuels.
>
> (And how about dung with a little processing? The deer in our area turn
> out a beautiful pelletized product.)
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> While the campstove is great for cooking, it can also be used as a very
> simple gasifier by putting in an aluminum (flashing) sleeve to eliminate
> the secondary combustion air holes. I should stress that the "WoodGas"
> is primarily the products of pyrolysis and as such has a heat content of
> 7-9 MJ/m3, rather than the 5-6 characteristic of complete gasification.
>
> Yours for Biomass Gasification and cooking,
>
> TOM REED THE BIOMASS ENERGY FOUNDATION
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