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TESTING & MODELING THE WOOD-GAS TURBO STOVE

T. B. Reeda,b, E. Anselmoa and K. Kircherc1 a

The Community Power Corporation, 8420 S. Continental Divide Rd., Su 100, Littleton, CO 80127; b The Biomass Energy Foundation, 1810 Smith Rd., Golden, CO 80401; c The Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO 80401

ABSTRACT

Through the millennia wood stoves for cooking have been notoriously inefficient, unhealthy and slow.

A new “wood-gas” cook stove has been developed that has >30% thermal efficiency, can be started, operated and stopped with very low emissions and can use a wide variety of biomass fuels. This “Turbo Stove” operates with 3 W of blower power or other air supply to produce 1-3 kWthermal for cooking. It is simple and inexpensive to build. Data is presented for this stove on a wide variety of fuels. The stove will bring a liter of water to boil in 4-10 minutes and can be turned down to the simmer level for longer cooking and increased efficiency.

The stove operates in several different gasification and combustion modes. In the “volatile burning” mode, the stove makes 18-25% charcoal from biomass fuels. In the “charcoal burning mode” the charcoal is gasified to produce a CO flame. If longer cooking is required, additional fuel can be fed from above, but other modes require more operator skill.

Presented at the Progresss in Thermochemical Biomass Conversion Conference, Sept. 17-22, 2000, Tyrol, Austria.

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