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100 Refractory Walled Air Curtain Burner with HATZ 3H50TIC Diesel Engine
OPERATING MANUAL
SITE PREPARATION
Faster operation through staging the wood piles
Air Burners Fireboxes were designed primarily as a pollution control device, but oper-
ated 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 possi-
ble. 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 add-
ing 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 over-
load the machine
with materials that
have high moisture
content, such as
tree branches with
leaves and nee-
dles, 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.
”
