Well, I've been tossing around ideas on designing something that I could retrofit to my OWB to try and decrease smoke... Mine is a homebrew, so I'm continually tweaking things and trying different things out... Aside from installing a secondary burn chamber, which isn't out of the question, does anyone have any ideas of anything to try???
I've contemplated fabricating some sort of adjustable baffle/damper/chamber that would slow down the flow slightly to try and burn some more of the smoke up.
I'm burning dry wood, and I just threw some hickory in that has probably been sitting for 3-4 years in our barn, and it is chugging like a choo choo out there... the main reason for wanting to do something is I have a neighbor about 200' foot from me, I doubt he would ever complain as he burns wood as well, and chugg's on cancer sticks all the time... but I'd like to be able to decrease the smoke and increase overall efficiencies if I could...
I do notice that when I open the door after the blower has just fired, that the chimney has a ton of draft, it will litereally almost suck the flame right out of the burner... I'm thinking if I could somehow baffle/damper this that I would be more likely to burn up a little more smoke...
Correct me if I'm wrong on my thinking, and throw out any ideas you have,I'm up for anyhting...
By the way, I'm getting a design ready for a potential gasifier unit that I'm going to build here in a few years... I'll post some 3D models when I get something decent together, I've found myself continually scrapping design after design, trying to get the best of everything...
I've contemplated fabricating some sort of adjustable baffle/damper/chamber that would slow down the flow slightly to try and burn some more of the smoke up.
I'm burning dry wood, and I just threw some hickory in that has probably been sitting for 3-4 years in our barn, and it is chugging like a choo choo out there... the main reason for wanting to do something is I have a neighbor about 200' foot from me, I doubt he would ever complain as he burns wood as well, and chugg's on cancer sticks all the time... but I'd like to be able to decrease the smoke and increase overall efficiencies if I could...
I do notice that when I open the door after the blower has just fired, that the chimney has a ton of draft, it will litereally almost suck the flame right out of the burner... I'm thinking if I could somehow baffle/damper this that I would be more likely to burn up a little more smoke...
Correct me if I'm wrong on my thinking, and throw out any ideas you have,I'm up for anyhting...
By the way, I'm getting a design ready for a potential gasifier unit that I'm going to build here in a few years... I'll post some 3D models when I get something decent together, I've found myself continually scrapping design after design, trying to get the best of everything...