Re: carbonisation

[Richard Stanley <rstanley@legacyfound.org>]

Dear Karve and Daniel,

Just read your work onteh carbonisation charcoal production ideas augmented by
Ron LArsons interests and experience.Thisis like a graduate seminar at times .
Anybody have a way to accredit this goup: We'd all have PHd's by now (if we
needed that).
We've been hearing a lot about the Rocket stove and their desire to feed the
fuel in from the side I saw how this worked with our biomas briquettes and it is
sound stuff. Could not their system allow you to feed your biomass in from teh
side as well and right on through to another exhaust pipe opposite hte feed
pipe. As it burned off the volatiles the char would be siomple pushed through to
the exhaust port and fall off to whatever quenching device either of you chose.
This would gte away from the need to lift out a container and replace it with
another with all the mechanics and heat loss associated with that process.
The briquette of anybodys form with holes or no holes, would be great for this
application: Because it is relatively more dense than the char byproduct. A  a
sloped feed tube such as some of Larry and deans  Rockets use, would, with the
right incline,  allow a chargfe of x number of  fresh briquettes to simply push
the front most burning briquettes out of the combustion chamber as they became
less dense(and reached a char stage.This char material would simply be moved
laterally, on out of the firebox into an adjacent  quenching chamber or perhpas,
just into an air starved well container with a non return flap cover (like that
on a garbage can). If one wanted thte process to be continuous, the char would
simply inch one may need a trip balance mechanism that would open an export door
from the chamber which would be tripped when  the block of burned biomass has
lost a certain amount of wieght. The former sounds cleaner but would necessitate
having some more dense solid form of biomass in the first place.

Thoughts: Has anybody  tried it ?

No patent ideas myself: If it can help all the better. The global market for the
extension of this technology is expanding faster than we can even train
producers and trainers,  it much less market it ourselves.

Richard




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