heat seeker said:Suuure - rub it in!
heat seeker said:This is from a 10 or 12 hour burn of Lignetics, with my Versa-Grate disconnected.
Fire was normal, heat normal, but this clinker took up the whole bottom of the burn pot.
Bigjim13 said:What is considered green raw material?
heat seeker said:Would that green contribute to creosote formation? I haven't noticed any change in my stoves accumulation of ash, etc., but maybe I should re-check my vent piping.
j-takeman said:Chlorides cause clinkers. It fuses with the ash and other minerals under high heat. Wood contain salts it leaches from the ground as its grown in. Along with the other minerals. The PFI label will have the allowable chloride content for a premium pellet. Green or not, If the wood has high chlorides and is pelletized, You then get what the OP has nicely take a picture for us to see. I have heard some mills will wash the wood to reduce the salt content. But I have only heard it as romurs. Nothing rock solid though.
Clinkers came from the corn burnes. Corn has high starches and it fuses with the other minerals in corn to form a lava rock. To reduce the clinkers corn burners will add ground oyster shells to offset them. FYI for you.
kinsman stoves [email said:[email protected][/email]]j-takeman said:Chlorides cause clinkers. It fuses with the ash and other minerals under high heat. Wood contain salts it leaches from the ground as its grown in. Along with the other minerals. The PFI label will have the allowable chloride content for a premium pellet. Green or not, If the wood has high chlorides and is pelletized, You then get what the OP has nicely take a picture for us to see. I have heard some mills will wash the wood to reduce the salt content. But I have only heard it as romurs. Nothing rock solid though.
Clinkers came from the corn burnes. Corn has high starches and it fuses with the other minerals in corn to form a lava rock. To reduce the clinkers corn burners will add ground oyster shells to offset them. FYI for you.
Sir, that is why you get the big bucks.
Eric
heat seeker said:I believe that clinkers are ash that has melted together into a semi-solid mass. I can't define it that well, but I know one when I see one!
It usually refers to the residue from burning coal, but we pelletheads have adopted the term.
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