HK-J29 - February 22nd, 2008

Notes

• Lowest surface/volume (largest pieces) of 30 run series
• Mixed hardwood, 18% moisture, 70.3 lbs
• Round pieces, 2 small pieces of white birch on top, 9 pieces
• Stack sloped slightly towards kindling
• Warm heater (132F firebox temp), cold fuel
• Side ignition
• Cold kindling, 3.5 lbs (not enough)
• Almost identical load to run HK-J26 (very clean), except a borderline start, requiring one additional piece of kindling.
• Interesting example of non-linear system -- high sensitivity to initial conditions.
• 1.1 g/kg PM (Condar)
• 19.3 g/kg CO
• 70.1% overall efficiency

Animation

Flue Gas

Opacity

Statistics

Fuel stack

Resources

• Excel Data File: Unavailable
• Condar Spreadsheet + Fueling Excel Data File: Condar-HKJ-29.xls