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Series (E) Refractory Walled Air Curtain Burner (Electric Motor & VFD)
OPERATING MANUAL
SITE PREPARATION
Faster operation through staging the wood piles
Air Burners FireBoxes were designed primarily as a pollution control device but operat-
ed correctly they will burn clean wood two or three times faster than open burning. To
achieve the best throughput the fire must remain at the highest temperature possible.
You achieve this by remembering three rules;
1)
Don
’
t smother the fire with a huge load or a load of very dense material.
2)
Load
“
less more often
”
smaller bucket loads more often.
3)
Sort out a pile of your best burnable wood, use it to create a hot fire.
The basic principle of operation is not too different from a campfire. You use your best
wood to get it started and if the fire dies down you add some more good wood to bring
it back up. The big difference is that on your campfire you are probably not adding root
balls and leaves and pine needles. These are the high moisture content and dense
materials that bring the fire temperature down.
The temperature drops (smoke in-
creases) and your burn rate slows
down if you overload the machine
with materials that have high mois-
ture content such as tree branches
with leaves and needles, or green
branches such as palm fronds.
While these are certainly ok to burn
in the FireBox, you want to add
them to a hot fire so they dry out
and ignite quickly. To keep the
temperature up and to maintain the
highest throughput of waste you
should mix the very burnable wood with the less burnable materials throughout the
course of the burning operation. The most common way to accomplish this is to stage
a pile of the most burnable materials or what we call the
“
two pile system.
”
“
If it
’
s burning clean, it
’
s burning hot, If there is smoke, you
’
re losing money.
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