Originally Posted By PerryMK


The problem I foresee is getting enough air into the system. Alcohol vaporizes to provide the pressure. Only vapors burn so there must be some vaporization with the Esbit. However it doesn't vaporize as readily as alcohol or liquid fuels so pressure may be difficult to achieve without forcing air into it. Maybe study how solid fuel rocket engines work for an idea?

I might be missing something in my logic.


Solid rocket engines carry both fuel and oxidizer mixed together so that they can operate in space or very high altitudes where atmospheric oxygen is missing or minimal.

There is a "hybrid" rocket engine which uses (generally) a solid fuel and a liquid oxidizer, but that has little similarity to the Esbit stove operation.

Experiment. Tinker. That is where great ideas often originate.