Re: Charcoal

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

John,

Thanks for the info.  Wish we all had your level of sophistication in charcoal production. Sounds expensive and thus appropriate only for large operations.

 

I hope your law makers don't get too all-inclusive in banning wood or sawdust burning. Some US cities have banned the use of fireplaces as a means of limiting wood burning pollution, when it is not the use of the appliance, but rather the fuel which is the culprit.

 

Highly densified sawdust, as in firelogs and briquettes, burns with such intensity that it greatly reduces emissions compared to cordwood or sawdust.

 

Vast improvement in many circumstances.

 

Jim

-----Original Message-----
From: John Flottvik <jovick@island.net>
To: stoves@crest.org <stoves@crest.org>
Date: Monday, January 15, 2001 6:04 PM
Subject: Charcoal

January 15, 2001

 

Dear Jim & Piet & Stovers

 

Thanks for the comeback to my question.

 

First let me explain what is going on in British Columbia. Our Ministry of Environment have banned all burning as a way for forest companies to dispose of wood residue, A few permits are issued, but that is coming to an end. Several communities do not allow burning of wood as home heating.

 

The B.C.Greenhouses are going bankrupt, using Natural Gas as a fuel. Some have, and some are threatening to switch to ( dirtier fuel) Newspapers comment not mine. The one nursery that has switched to sawdust has the community up in arms due to fine particle pollution. Weather you burn sawdust or press them into briquettes, it's still sawdust.

 

With our continuous process, there is no extra work to make fuel charcoal. We simply dump sawdust into the feed hoper, then sit in the control room and keep an eye on the thermo couple temperature. The charcoal comes out the other end, into a truck or super sacks for shipping. What's so hard about that. Fluidized Burners are being designed for us to use in greenhouse applications as I write. I agree, if we were to use the old fashioned way to make charcoal, this would not be practical. Our new and improved system

makes this a very wiable venture.  More comments are welcome, and if you have any questions feel free to call. Thanks

 

John Flottvik

 

    

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