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: rain and reduction

updated wed 29 may 02

 

iandol on mon 27 may 02


Dear Tom Buck,

I have used a Weed Sprayer set on "mist" when firing with Diesel =
Distillate and it helps. Radiation helps to complete vaporisation beyond =
the fire mouth. But I have not made any measured comparisons.

It might be better to construct some sort of evaporator to bring the =
water vapour up to superheat temperatures, round about 1200 Celsius. But =
this becomes dangerous stuff to handle.

I think if this was done, so that the SH Steam was injected at low =
pressure into the bed of live coals in a wood fire it might make a lot =
of difference on an intermittent basis.

A lot is being written but the ideas need thinking through in depth.

All the best,

Ivor Lewis.