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wood chips for wood firing?

updated sun 17 aug 03

 

Louis Katz on fri 15 aug 03


Yes.

You could combust the chips while keeping them airborne with a skinny
stream of high velocity air shot from the bottom of a v shaped fire
box. This I believe is called fluidized bed combustion. I would look at
old coal burning literature.
Louis
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On Friday, August 15, 2003, at 11:06 AM, lyla kaplan wrote:

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>
> can a kiln be designed to fire around using wood chips/shavings or is
> the surface area too small to get effective heat? i've never seen
> anything written on this.
>
> any ideas would be appreciated.
>
> thanks
>
> lyla
>
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lyla kaplan on fri 15 aug 03



can a kiln be designed to fire around using wood chips/shavings or is the surface area too small to get effective heat? i've never seen anything written on this.

any ideas would be appreciated.


thanks


lyla


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