Posted by Pete in Holland MI on January 17, 2017 at 14:59:15 from (104.129.196.79):
In Reply to: Firewood Discussion posted by Adirondack case guy on January 16, 2017 at 16:53:12:
The exhaust of the steam tractor or locomotive is not blown into the smoke box, but is piped thru the smoke box and exits just below the base of the smoke stack. This high velocity exhaust causes the smoke box, flues, fire box, and ash pit area all to run in a vacuum, thus, combustion air is sucked into the fire, rather than being blown into it to turbo-charge the fire. Steam itself does nothing to enhance the fire, but the result of its force is what creates the draft.
Less than dry wood burns longer because it takes time to boil off the moisture before it burns, but unless you have a really hot fire and hot surfaces of your stove to keep those gases hot till they exhaust the system, the moisture will condense, leaving unburned products (creosote) behind.
I own & operate a steam tractor. By the end of the day, 1/16 to 1/8" of soot (not creosote) has built up on my flues and needs to be cleaned each morning, else performance the next day is noteably reduced. I have seen these outside boilers with several inches of soot & creosote built up on the inside surfaces. Very little heat transfer is occurring with this insulating barrier on your boiler.
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