They win a pretty tough competition at Brookhaven National Lab. The MF Fire team, from Maryland, used auto technology as their model, and it worked:
http://forgreenheat.blogspot.com/2014/11/rookie-wood-stove-makers-get-highest.html
Winning this competition basically meant keeping your oxygen levels around 13 - 14%. MF Fire's computer managed that pretty well. And keeping your stack temps consistently under 200. MR Fire didn't nail that. The New Zealand team that Ben Myren works for had average 167 stack temp, which gave it 82% efficiency (HHV). We'll see if the MF FIre team (all are under 25) can take the next step and get the stove into production somehow. They are now looking to get safety listed so that they can install test stoves in a few homes for a winter. And lots of tweaking is still happening. Stay tuned.
http://forgreenheat.blogspot.com/2014/11/rookie-wood-stove-makers-get-highest.html
Winning this competition basically meant keeping your oxygen levels around 13 - 14%. MF Fire's computer managed that pretty well. And keeping your stack temps consistently under 200. MR Fire didn't nail that. The New Zealand team that Ben Myren works for had average 167 stack temp, which gave it 82% efficiency (HHV). We'll see if the MF FIre team (all are under 25) can take the next step and get the stove into production somehow. They are now looking to get safety listed so that they can install test stoves in a few homes for a winter. And lots of tweaking is still happening. Stay tuned.
