“Um...a woodstove, with burning wood (flames) and an oxygen generator, all in the same room? Big Booms Ahead!”
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Actually, it would just make a wood stove burn faster and hotter, if you managed to direct the extra O2 into it. I have tried it with a rocket stove, to be sure the machine actually concentrated oxygen. It does, and the rocket stove burned noticeably more energetically with 1 liter per minute of 90% O2 flowing right into the bottom of it, but not like I had hooked a leaf blower to it or anything.
Not a recommended practice, but the danger of a wood stove in the same room with a personal O2 machine is a bit exaggerated given reasonable precautions, it seems to me.
Just keep your Oxy tube away from the fire, and turn off the machine if you do catch your tube on fire. ;-)
It’s not the same as spraying propane or hair spray around a flame, but it can make whatever is already burning, burn faster and hotter.
Now if you have the machine sucking O2 out of one area, and you are pumping it into a separate, well sealed wood stove room long enough and fast enough to seriously raise the oxygen concentration of the whole room, well then you might be able to produce a Mercury Capsule type event and burn your wood hot enough to melt the stove.
That’s why it’s best to have the oxygen concentrator machine getting its oxygen from the same room it’s putting it right back into while blowing it in temporarily concentrated form past your nose, in any case. (Something that might be good to know...)
Oxygen bottles are different in this regard. They didn’t just pull their oxygen from the room they are being used in. It’s easier to dramatically raise the oxygen level in a whole room with those, so arguably bottles are more dangerous.
***Just keep your Oxy tube away from the fire, and turn off the machine if you do catch your tube on fire. ;-)
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And for goodness sake, if you smoke - don’t do it while hooked up to your O2! I’ve seen burned nasal cannulas that lit up like cannon fuse.
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