Join Dan Hettinger and the team at the Grandview Living Web Farm biochar facility as they explore the differences in DIY biomass cookstoves. See the different uses, feedstock recommendations and get tips on burning most efficiently to meet your desired outcomes.
VIDEO: Biomass Cookstoves
Join Dan Hettinger and the team at the Grandview Living Web Farm biochar facility as they explore the differences in DIY biomass cookstoves. See the different uses, feedstock recommendations and get tips on burning most efficiently to meet your desired outcomes.
could you share the links from the handout?
Arrr! So many options – thank you.
As Zoltan mentioned, a link would be handy 😀 TY.
Before using any device with an open flame in a garage please be certain there is no risk of gasoline vapors. For those who care the NFPA 211 prohibits wood burning stoves from use in a garage.
For the sawdust stove, I wonder if a concentrator plate like in the TLUD placed about 2 " below the top of the inner cylinder with the inner cylinder about 2" from the lid of the outer cylinder would get the toroid burn such as is observed in a rocket mass heater?
Rocket mass heaters do not use a vertical stack. They truly are side wall vented. However, some jurisdictions might consider them masonry heaters, in which case code would require a chimney, even though the RMH doesn't need one. The pressure differential that draws the air into the combustion chamber comes from the secondary combustion that happens in the riser. It behaves something like a hydraulic ram. As the flue gasses cool in the barrel they lose pressure. greater pressure always seeks lower pressure and so the secondary combustion area pumps the flow out. As you can see, the pressure differential that a chimney adds can cause excessive flow in the secondary combustion area causing the system to burn hotter than desired.
@40:00 If you want your stove to last then quenching in the stove is not the best way to go about it, ideally you want to remove your fuel cylinder and dump it in a thin steel bucket with water or whatever solution you want to quench into
Have you guys seen my indoor vented to the outside TLUD cookstove already? I spammed it in a bunch of the biochar groups on facebook when I just made it last winter.
The next version will have some major improvements in not only easy of use (stainless steel fuel cylinder rather than this heavy 3mm thick gas tank and handles directly attached to it as well) but it will also have an optional white oven on the top so you can either use it as an oven or as a cookstove, it will be hooked up to a hot water tank and perhaps it will even have a thermal bench but that I'm still not sure of.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jn5Z_r_wa7Q
Where is this place, and how do you find more info to participate
The cone pit method it's the most efficient way because it's the simplest in my opinion !
sawdust can be converted to pellets .