Kimberly Wood Stove

[JAB]

FWIW

Is a gasifier wood stove... "two-stage combustion chamber to squeeze
more heat from less wood. In the first combustion, oxygen is
restricted so that the wood is gasified and becomes smoke. The smoke
is re-burned as fuel in a second combustion before it exits the stove.
The second combustion produces most of the heat and during secondary
combustion, Kimberly’s chimney goes nearly smokeless."

"Burns up to 8 hours (coal bed to coal bed) on a load of wood.
Heats homes up to 1,500 square feet or more of well-insulated space."


Uses outside air inlet

https://www.unforgettablefirellc.com/kimberly-wood-stove/

[RS Wood]

I gave it a look: very interesting. Especially the gasification
technology. It's somewhat ugly, but maybe that's just because it's
non-traditional.

From the website:

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The Kimberly™ gasifier wood stove had an accidental beginning. Inventor
Roger Lehet’s 25-year-old wood stove shop was a casualty of The Great
Recession. Unable to pay the rent, the Lehet family of three moved onto
a boat moored off the coast of Vashon Island, near Seattle, Washington.
Roger realized that no manufacturer made a tiny wood stove that could
fit into his tiny space, so he cobbled together his first of several
mini wood stoves, learning as he went. Roger’s tiny house on water
required a small, nearly smokeless wood stove in the marina. There was
little room to store wood in the cabin, so his tiny wood stove needed to
have a tiny appetite. A good night’s sleep required a longer burn time.
So, Roger designed a two-stage combustion chamber to squeeze more heat

from less wood. In the first combustion, oxygen is restricted so that
the wood is gasified and becomes smoke. The smoke is re-burned as fuel
in a second combustion before it exits the stove. The second combustion
produces most of the heat and during secondary combustion, Kimberly’s
chimney goes nearly smokeless.

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[JAB]

On Saturday, November 16, 2019 at 7:55:55 AM UTC-6, RS Wood wrote:


> I gave it a look: very interesting. Especially the gasification
> technology.

Gasification has been used to power vehicles

"During the Second World War, a widespread fuel shortage led many motorists to experiment with cars and trucks that ran on wood, coal, or both.

Wood-powered vehicles have been around since the auto industry’s earliest days, but they didn’t rise to prominence until the end of the First World War. Alarmed by gas shortages during the war, many countries in Europe encouraged private companies to find a new type of fuel. Electric cars were considered, but they were ultimately deemed too impractical for an array of reasons, including the limited driving range they offered and the extra weight added by the batteries. Wood gas generators emerged as the ideal compromise.

In 1922, the Automobile Club de France organized an endurance rally open to wood gas-powered trucks. The participants needed to cover about 75 miles in two days. The technology advanced at such a rapid pace that the following year’s edition took participants on a 745-mile, 12-day trip. In 1925, the rally was 1,300 miles long and it lasted three weeks."

https://www.hemmings.com/blog/2017/01/22/from-gasoline-to-gasification-or-why-we-dont-power-cars-with-wood-today/