Re: Re: Charcoal

["Jim Dunham" <costaeec@kcnet.com>]

Well said Piet.

 

We have been installing sawdust briquette plants all over the world for decades, to do exactly as you suggest.

 

They make excellent heating or cooking fuel. Briquettes are also made from many other forms of biomass and are also used for industrial fuel.

 

Jim

-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Verhaart <verhaarp@janus.cqu.edu.au>
To: stoves@crest.org <stoves@crest.org>
Date: Monday, January 15, 2001 3:51 AM
Subject: Fwd: Re: Charcoal

I was wondering why the message below had not appeared in the Stoves List. It appears I only sent it to John Flottvik.
Piet

Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 07:35:06 +1000
To: "John Flottvik" <jovick@island.net>
From: Peter Verhaart <verhaarp@janus.cqu.edu.au>
Subject: Re: Charcoal

Conversely, why, instead of going through all that trouble to turn sawdust into charcoal briquettes, why not make it into sawdust briquettes.
Having briquettes means having fuel in standard shape, size and mass.
Look what people have done with lumps of fuel of standard size and mass. There is the Pyromid stove and the much maligned Weber Kettle BBQ.
But they work, they  do exactly what the manual tells you they do. Why? Because someone has painstakingly done test after test to arrive at numbers, patterns and times to ensure the desired behaviour (don't hit him, it's English).
The same thing can be done for wood. If you detest the downdraft mode, then you could follow the Pyromid strategy. With wood briquettes laid out in a certain pattern and with provisions for a supply  of air at the right spots, I am sure a burner with many small smokeless flames can be realised.
And it uses all of the combustion value of the wood.

Happy New Year and a happy new Millennium to all stovers.

Piet Verhaart



At 07:47 9/01/2001 -0500, you wrote:

January 9, 2001
 
Dear Stoves
 
Hope every one had a good holiday
 
This is probably a stupid question, but, if you are going so far as to make torrified wood, why not go the one extra
step and make charcoal? By going the exta mile, you are able to collect all the oil from the wood, and sell, at a good price, I might add.
 
Regards  John Flottvik