HK-J23 - February 15th, 2008

Notes

• Lowest CO of 30 run series
• White birch, 20% moisture, 70.5 lbs
• Very large pieces, smaller on top, 7 pieces
• Stack sloped towards kindling
• Warm heater (137F firebox temp), warm fuel
• Side ignition.
• Cold kindling, false start, needed boost with torch
• Last 10 minutes of gas data lost - substituted with estimated data.
• Very low CO.
• 0.8 g/kg PM (Condar)
• 13.7 g/kg CO
• 73.0% overall efficiency
• Very large log #1 (bottom right), 14.2 lbs - required repositioning at the end to burn.

Animation

Last 10 minutes missing.

Flue Gas

Computer crash, last 10 minutes of gas data lost - substituted with estimated data.
Very low CO. Lowest CO/CO2 ratio recorded to date, 0.0010, around 60 minutes.

Opacity

Statistics

Fuel stack

Piece #1 on far left.

Resources

• Excel Data File: testoJ-23.xls
• Condar Spreadsheet + Fueling Excel Data File: Condar-HKJ-23.xls