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2016 MHA Research Heater Tests

Test MHA-1605
February 9, 2016

White birch / hardwood mix
Vertical fuel, vertical kindling
61.3 lbs including 1.3 lbs kindling
16.6% moisture.

Pisla HTT 602 door, 22" wide
Austrian eco firebox, see  http://www.heatkit.com/research/lopez-2014-03-01.html
Experimental baffle setup. See http://heatkit.com/research/lopez-2015-fire%20baffle.htm for details.
For this test the Robax glass perimeter was removed from the baffle setup.


Condar Spreadsheet 

Testo Raw Data

Lab Notes


Gas graph.
CO spike once O2 dropped below 8% during the warmup phase.
Spike ends when O2 gets back to 8.8%, at which time it also has higher firebox temperature.
After the spike CO flatlines at around 80 ppm (0.008%).
Slight rise toward the end. Once there is charcoal, the air is shut down at 90 minutes and the test is over
Missing data during flat O2 and stack temp portion of graph, interpolated with an average.

Testo raw data Excel file.

Testo graph
Testo gas graph. 
The data acquisition software was accidentally not shut down from the previous test and the autoscaling shows 2 tests compressed into one graph.



























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This page was created on February 13, 2016