Air Burners BurnBoss T22 Operating Manual page 20

Air Burners, Inc.
BurnBoss Series Air Curtain Burner (Kubota Z482-E3 Engine)
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 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 increases) and your burn rate slows down, if you over-
load the machine with materials that have
high moisture content such as tree branch-
es with leaves and needles, or green
branches such as palm fronds. While
these are certainly ok to burn in the Fire-
Box, you want to add them to a hot fire, so
they dry out and ignite quickly.
To keep the temperature up and to main-
tain 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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