Charcoal with oxidizers

[Samuelc123]

Hello I'm sam and I had an idea that if powdered oxidizers were to be mixed in some ratio with charcoal, would the coals be hotter or create more ash. Oxidizers mixed with gas has been tried but why not solid fuels. Answers?

[Steve Sells]

we sorta already do that, We turn up the blower

[Daswulf]

Yup, more air makes the solid fuel fire hotter. Why add something you don't need to solid fuel? Just add more air. 

If you are not getting a hot enough solid fuel fire it may be due to poor design or air flow. 

If you are using charcoal briquettes, then that is your problem as you'd want real Lump charcoal. 

[ThomasPowers]

Most people find that charcoal burns faster than they want it to anyway and generally we don't WANT an oxidizing environment around our workpiece.

[JHCC]

16 hours ago, Samuelc123 said:

create more ash.

The ash is the unburnable portion of the charcoal, just like clinker is the unburnable residue of coal. The speed of burning won't affect that proportion.

[Frosty]

It's been done for centuries but not for forges. Charcoal and potassium nitrate makes a decent rocket fuel but lousy explosive, add a pinch of sulfur though and you're off like a shot.

You're not contemplating a canister forge are you? Sealing a self contained fire in a container is likely to spread your work farther than your customer base.

Frosty The Lucky.