haven't got all the components together for this, the WS&S crowd will just have to learn all about patience 
take one #10 can, drill 1/2" air intake holes all around the bottom, 1.5" up from the can bottom. This will be the stove base & the methyl hydrate burner. This is the PRIMARY BURNER. It is filled with methyl hydrate up to the air intake holes. When lit there is a rapid swirling of flames, and the heat is incredible. You can feel the suction as the fresh air enters and mixes and burns.
The second burner is a 1 quart paint can with LID. 1/2" from the top of the can. Use a push pin to make these holes, lots of them around the can. This is the GASSIFICATION burner or burner #2. It is filled with firepellets and then the lid is put on the can. This is a sealed unit, with the exception of the micro exhaust vent pinholes. There is so much heat generated from the methyl hydrate in the primary burner that the firepellets ignite rapidly and turn to red hot coals VERY QUICKLY.
the second burner rests inside the first burner, on two metal rods. The PRIMARY burner rapidly heats up the firepellets inside the almost sealed secondary burner, and the gasses rapidly exit the pin hole vents in the top of the second burner and ignite from the (extremely hot) methyl hydrate flames coming up from the primary burner. ALL heat exhausts up and out thru the 1" GAP between the #10 can and the secondary burner. It is extremely hot.
my initial prototype worked exactly as i wanted it too, but i had too large of vent holes on the secondary burner. I was able to heat up a 2000 sf warehouse (windows cracked open and small entry door open for air flow) quite well.
I should have the second unit built up soon. I will post pics.
EDIT. on does not need to use fire pellets in the burn chamber.....they can fill with MORE methyl hydrate.........the primary burner will superheat the methyl in the second burner ....... i predict thermal runaway and high pressure flames.............. teeheee
take one #10 can, drill 1/2" air intake holes all around the bottom, 1.5" up from the can bottom. This will be the stove base & the methyl hydrate burner. This is the PRIMARY BURNER. It is filled with methyl hydrate up to the air intake holes. When lit there is a rapid swirling of flames, and the heat is incredible. You can feel the suction as the fresh air enters and mixes and burns.
The second burner is a 1 quart paint can with LID. 1/2" from the top of the can. Use a push pin to make these holes, lots of them around the can. This is the GASSIFICATION burner or burner #2. It is filled with firepellets and then the lid is put on the can. This is a sealed unit, with the exception of the micro exhaust vent pinholes. There is so much heat generated from the methyl hydrate in the primary burner that the firepellets ignite rapidly and turn to red hot coals VERY QUICKLY.
the second burner rests inside the first burner, on two metal rods. The PRIMARY burner rapidly heats up the firepellets inside the almost sealed secondary burner, and the gasses rapidly exit the pin hole vents in the top of the second burner and ignite from the (extremely hot) methyl hydrate flames coming up from the primary burner. ALL heat exhausts up and out thru the 1" GAP between the #10 can and the secondary burner. It is extremely hot.
my initial prototype worked exactly as i wanted it too, but i had too large of vent holes on the secondary burner. I was able to heat up a 2000 sf warehouse (windows cracked open and small entry door open for air flow) quite well.
I should have the second unit built up soon. I will post pics.
EDIT. on does not need to use fire pellets in the burn chamber.....they can fill with MORE methyl hydrate.........the primary burner will superheat the methyl in the second burner ....... i predict thermal runaway and high pressure flames.............. teeheee
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