Wood stoves, exhausting

There are many conditions of partial combustion and pyrolysis that favor production of PAH compounds, and they are encountered abundantly in the atmosphere, soil, and elsewhere in the environment. Sources of PAH compounds include engine exhausts, wood stove smoke, cigarette smoke, and charbroiled food. Coal tars and petroleum residues have high levels of PAHs. 

These two pollutants can be found concentrated inside buildings due to unvented heaters, leaking chimneys, furnaces, and stoves, in addition to automobile exhaust from garages, and tobacco smoke. These are among the most common pollutants that cause deaths in underdeveloped countries during winter, when people warm themselves using wood stoves. 

The stove can be started and operated indoors with no exhaust fans and no odor of burning wood. We have taken the stove to India and the Philippines and cooked with the Turbo Stove in small villages and on conference room desks with no odor. While the Turbo Stove currently uses a 12 Volt 3 Watt blower, the power could come from stored compressed air, bellows, wind-up generators, photovoltaic, thermophotovoltaic, windup motors, thermoelectric or other sources. 

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