HK-J22 - February 14th, 2008

Notes

• White birch, 20% moisture, 59.3 lbs

• Large and small pieces, 10 pieces, 3.0 lbs kindling

• Warm heater (160F firebox temp), warm fuel.

• Start was too fast with the birch bark catching right away.

• Side ignition.

• 1.6 g/kg PM (Condar)

• 36.3 g/kg CO

• 73.0% overall efficiency

Animation

Birch bark catches right away, note fire cycling in brightness.

Flue Gas

Opacity

Note opacity (PM) after 50 minutes, but extremely low CO (0.03%). Fire gets hot enough to burn CO, but not all
the particulates.

Statistics

Fuel stack

Resources

• Excel Data File: testoJ-22.xls
• Condar Spreadsheet + Fueling Excel Data File: Condar-HKJ-22.xls