In the continuing saga off no-smoke charcoal making, I’ve added air injection to the system.
In recent runs, I could tell the fire wasn’t getting enough oxygen. There were a couple reasons I knew this.
- when running just the stove, I got a red jet flame out of the top. A picture from a previous post:
If everything were running optimially, there’d be enough oxygen inside the stove that all combustion can happen inside the stove. Said another way, volitile gases waited til being exposed to outside air before doing their thing.
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another reason; pretty much the same as #1, when making charcoal, I got a red flame around the paint can. I want it to be a nice bright flame under the can.
So I’ve added a supercharger.It’s kinda hard to see in the thumbnail, I drilled four small holes in the length of pipe between the cap and the coupling (actually, it’s called a nipple… heh heh, he said nipple ;-)). The other end of the pipe, but the valve is a connector that allows me to hook it to my air compressor.
Air flows from the compressor through the valve (the throttle), through the pipe that runs …