[TheForge] Recuperative Wall furnace sketch.

Steve Smith sos at alum.mit.edu
Thu Mar 30 18:49:31 EST 2006


The drawing is in the 2005-11-08 folder.

Steve

george rousis wrote:
> i couldn't find a marchh 2006 folder???(album)
> george
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> From: "Jerry Frost" <frosty at customcpu.com>
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> Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2006 12:56 PM
> Subject: [TheForge] Recuperative Wall furnace sketch.
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>>I uploaded a sketch of the basic recuperative wall furnace. Unfortunately
>>Photoaccess has changed the way it does things and before I realized it
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> I'd
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>>uploaded the sketch, meaning I didn't get to put it where I wanted to so
>>it's under a march 2006 album rather than forges, etc.
>>
>>Okay, that said the sketch is pretty self explanatory but here's a brief
>>description of how it works.
>>
>>The burner sketched at right enters through the outer insulation and outer
>>hard liner with minimal gaps. The burner nozzle stops at the inner hard
>>liner aiming across the gap to a larger port in the inner hard liner.
>>
>>The inner hard liner makes the furnace chamber and heating volume. It is
>>supported on standoffs. The exhaust port(s) are shown in the chamber floor
>>below the burner port but may be almost anywhere. They do need to be
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> placed
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>>so as not to allow exhaust gasses to leave the chamber sooner than
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> possible.
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>>The labeled support is also noted as a baffle, this is to force the
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> exhaust
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>>gasses to pass all the way around the chamber before being drawn back into
>>the burner port. There should be a couple gaps in the baffle to allow
>>complete exhaust circulation.
>>
>>This is the basic idea. It's complexity is one reason I haven't built one.
>>Still, once I have my shop up and online I plan on experimenting with a
>>number of things, a recuperative wall furnace being one.
>>
>>Frosty
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