HK-K15 - February 4th, 2009

Notes

• Warm heater
• White Birch, 20% moisture
• 8 pieces, 4.5 lbs kindling, 60.6 lbs total
• Smaller pieces, very fast start in kindling stack.
• CO spike at beginning, PM spike.
• Air closed at 72 minutes with glowing coal bed.
• Flue damper left open.
• 2.09 g/kg PM (Condar)
• 18.28 g/kg CO
• 73.1 % overall efficiency

Animation

Flue Gas

Air closed at 72 minutes, flue damper left open. Cold air bypass in firebox closed. Testo data from 1-72 minutes used for stack loss and emissions calculations.

Opacity

Big spike for 10 minutes - small wood, fast start, fuel rich (very low O2) (not enough air)

Statistics

Fuel stack

Resources

• Excel Data File: testo-K15.xlsm
• Condar Spreadsheet + Fueling Excel Data File: Condar-HKK-15.xlsm