Wood Reduction Ark

[Nickie Koskinen]

TheWoodsmoke Reduction Program (Program) offers financial incentives for homeowners to replace old, inefficient, and highly polluting wood stoves, wood inserts, or fireplaces with cleaner burning and more efficient home heating devices. California residents using uncertified wood stoves or wood inserts or fireplaces as their primary heat source may be eligible for incentives towards the purchase and installation of qualifying devices. The incentive amounts vary depending on the location of the residence and the household income, with some households qualifying for the full replacement cost.

Households using uncertified wood stoves or wood inserts or utilizing a fireplace as a primary heat source are eligible for an incentive towards replacing their old, uncertified device with a cleaner, more efficient heating device. The incentive amount will be determined by the each District in coordination with CAPCOA. In order to determine if your device is uncertified and qualifies for this program, check the model against the U.S. EPA Certified Wood Heater Database. If the stove's manufacturer and model is not on the current and historical lists, the stove is considered uncertified. Additional methods to check eligibility can be found in the Program Guidelines.

This program will maximize benefits to low income households located in disadvantaged and low-income communities or on tribal lands and has as a goal to distribute 75 percent of total funding to these populations. Applicants residing in a census tract identified as disadvantaged or low-income automatically qualify for higher incentives. A final map of disadvantaged and low-income communities is available at CCI's Priority Population Investments.

In order to participate in the Program, applicants will be required to complete an application through their participating District. A list of districts currently participating in the Program can be found on CAPCOA's website. Applicants will agree to receive training and follow the best practices in fuel storage and device maintenance and operation. The District will notify the applicant whether or not the application was approved for participation in the Program.

The existing uncertified wood stove/insert or fireplace must be replaced with an electric heat pump, electric stove heater, certified pellet stove, or wood stove approved for this Program, as described in the "Replacement Device" section the 2021-2022 Draft Program Guidelines. Only select wood stoves are eligible for incentives as part of this Program, which is necessary to ensure that the replacement devices reduce emissions as anticipated. The replacement device must be installed by a professional, appropriately licensed stove installer and meet local fire and building codes.

Sequoia National Park and Forest - The portions of Tulare County that are east of the western most boundaries of Sequoia National Park, Sequoia National Forest, and Sequoia National Monument.

Replace old solid fuel-burning equipment with cleaner EPA certified or pellet-fueled device or install natural gas or propane devices. Natural gas and propane devices are not subject to the Air District wood-burning rule.

For heavy carbon trap.... you almost can't reduce too low. (Don't take that literally. ) For average carbon trapping I use about cone 010 as the starting point. With MY shino formulation if I get to about cone 05..... carbon trapping is not really possible anymore..... outer glaze surface is sealed over with highly soda fluxed glass.

In my noborigama I have the luxury of firing different chambers in different atmospheres and to different end point cones... so I use all sorts of firing cycles. Some Japanese style shino I do has very, very light reduction at all... like much Japanese shino ware, the glaze is quite white with light red firecolor on the thin spots.

I don't think of "body reduction" and "glaze reduction".... it is all one continuum. In a wood kiln you are cycling from pretty strong reduction to pretty strong oxidiation on most every stoke anyway once you are at a certain temperature. I look at HOW HEAVY it swings to reduction on the stokes rather than holding it in a steady state of reduction constantly. The length of those reduscion periods also varies relative to the oxidation periods as the stoking rate.volume goes up on a single stoke.

As to downfiring.... on my last one or two chambers I often use the Bizen-style youhen charcoal technique.... and that REALLY retards the cooling and holds it in HEAVY reduction until the wares are not really reactive anymore.

Not doing Davis Carbon Trap (I actually don't care for that look very much) The Gustin Shino I use is pretty white on light clay and quite rich over the 42 especially if thin: Really want to maximize the ruddy flashing and ash effects. But I don't really want the clean white look: funky as possible... so I guess "the subtle mixtures of color and blackness"

Shinos have many different faces. So difficult to answer? Carbon trapping is but one of many faces of shino. While I've never wood fired I have spent some time researching . The re are many artist that specialize in shino. Judith duff, has much information on her website, regarding her kiln and firing technique. I really love the variety one can get from, one shino glaze in different parts of kiln. From whites,to reds light reds , purples, greys, spotting, Mixes of...... .same shino with different application techniques, produce differnt looks. How long a glaze sits on piece can affect outcome. Then to complicate further how clay bodies will react with , shino, fire, placement In kiln, firing technique. Hope fully you made notes of clay and glazes. Also note what part of kiln pieces were fired. Lots of photos and or videos may help with the note taking on kiln opening. If you haven't loaded yet maybe you could saggar fire a few pieces.. Unfortunately there are way to many variable in play. To answer your questions. While the glaze says carbon trap ........ Doesn't mean you get carbon trapping, Again much depends of firing and what the kiln gods feeling like giving you. It's the variety of results and beauty of this glaze that draws me to it.

sensei. John B. (Yoda). has probably the most experienced in japanese pottery and chajin, that is involved with this site. (If you didn't already know). So if your questions were answerable you have the right source.

Ahhh, carbon trap is not your destiny I can see, eh. Soluble soda sources in the glaze recipe diminish you should. Early strong reduction in the kiln want you should not. To the Dark Side those paths lead.

To the easy path of Soda Ash do not give in. Soda ash leads to solubility. Solubility leads to water evaporation ionic migration. Water evaporation ionic migration leads to early melting glaze surfaces. Early melting glaze surfaces leads to gas impermeability.

Here's something strange that happened: a couple of big thick (1") shelves seem to have fluxed and melted. They bubbled and foamed and dripped onto pots below. The "glaze" they made luckily looks pretty cool: blue and black, super glassy and deep. The one pictured was right up front but it happened further back as well.

I have seen that kind of effect before with WET shelves (old... stored in damp conditions) that came from a salt kiln. The soda migrated to the surface as the shelf dried in the firing...and deposited on the surface (like with American Shino glazes) ande fluxed the silica in the SiC.

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