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I am running a self-made gasforge with a partly homemade venturi ribbon-burner. While heating up the forge often starts throwing out lots of CO if I don't open the door at some point or fiddle with the air inlet.
The weird thing is... It helps if I close the air intake quite far, so that the combustion in the forge turns yellow.
Shouldn't less air mean MORE carbon monoxide? Can anyone explain what is happening here?
What if there's no organic compound present in the reaction? Is that considered already as not a combustion reaction?
At a simple glance C8H18+13.5O2=8CO2+9H2O, or 14.5 gas molecules into 17 gas molecules. Is this the greater cause of pressure in the cylinder, or the heat given off and the resulting expansion (roughly online with the ideal gas law)?
I'm a hard sci-fi writer looking for advanced weapons for aliens to provide various human groups in a proxy war. So far, coilguns seem the most probable, as man-portable versions have already been built, but they're not exactly fit for combat. Preferably, the weapons would have some sort of edge over normal firearms; otherwise there'd be no reason to use them.
This only affects this gas station. It continues to work after I quit.
