Looking for this Burner

[AlecMcKay]

Hi all,

I’ve been scouring the internet and have asked multiple hardware stores about a burner (circled in blue) I’m trying to find and have had 0 luck.
I want one with the same “input type” (circled in green).
If anyone knows where I could purchase this burner or a better place to ask about it, I’ll give you a cookie.

The picture is from my research partner in Guatemala.
If interested, details about the research project are below.

Research Project: We are attempting to find the optimal temperature and CFM to dry Cardamom beans with propane. The current fuel source used in Guatemala is wood. The use rate of wood is greater than the replacement rate, so if this continues they will eventually have no more wood to use.

 

[itsmoked]

Just post the picture directly so you don't torture everyone with a half dozen clicks.
Check ceramic kiln suppliers. That's the most common configuration I see in that service.
Good on you for preserving the environment.

You should probably come up with a solar heating system. Plastic or glass over a simple box structure with fan controlled venting. Control the fan with temp and or heat. That would dump the energy cost to nothing.

Keith Cress
kcress -

http://www.flaminsystems.com

 

[3DDave]

Seems like the problem is about drying the beans during the rainy season, so no sunshine - it appears to be a crop that is both valuable and ecologically damaging, not including cutting down the forest for fuel after clearing it out to plant cardamom in the first place.

Anyway, the device appears to be designed for raku ceramic work - raku burner. I don't see any advantage to it over the conventional gas burner designs for the purposes of drying beans.

 

[itsmoked]

3DD; Unless they heat from an inlet tunnel.. Moving air heating.

Used to be a huge apricot dryer in town. They used linear flame burners under the cots that were 30 feet long!

Keith Cress
kcress -

http://www.flaminsystems.com