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Ideas and discussion for the responsible preparation and use of wood charcoal as a process heat and motor fuel.
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How to make charcoal work in a practical way and create CHP 15 Replies
As someone that makes charcoal I can say that its time consuming and requires some real effort. So much so that I would usually dismiss it as a fuel source because I know people are just too unmotiva…
Tagged: biochar, charcoal gasifier
Started by ben. Last reply by Leon Schmidt Jun 14.
Small Motor Charcoal Fueling Gasification 23 Replies
Hello I have discovered in the past year just how bloody difficult it is to raw wood fuel small engines. Too low of suction/flow to heat up a raw wood fueled gasifier hot enough to burn cleanly. And…
Started by Steve Unruh. Last reply by Steve Unruh Apr 15.
charcoal requirements 10 Replies
I've watched the videos on making charcoal. Q. Is there a point of conversion that works best for gasifiers before reaching the completed stages of making charcoal. Would it be dependent on total moi…
Started by Paul Drieman. Last reply by Paul Drieman Jan 3.
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Comment by Renewablejohn on April 10, 2010 at 11:58am - We are just building a torrified wood reactor using a vibrating screw elevator and thermal oil heated by solar. The raw material will be arb waste and forest brash chipped through a Hazohack chipper to a G30 standard. The torrefied wood will be made into briquettes and pellets using our existing equipment.
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Comment by Clinton Briley on October 6, 2009 at 8:19am -
Hey guys, I see e-coal mentioned here and until I saw it I hadn't occured to me that charcoal might be pelletized. I asked a pellet mill dealer if the typical mill would pelletize charcoal and the answer was no and they weren't aware of any mills being sold that would. I did a search and came up with very few hits relating to pelletizing charcoal but there are some. One of them is http://www.alibaba.com/product-gs/242446592/coal_or_charcoal_powder_pellet_machine.html
The porous nature of natural charcoal would be lost in the process, but it would be a way to make charcoal much less bulky.
Has anyone else here investigated the process?
ClintB
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Comment by Les Carter on September 18, 2009 at 11:09am -
I finished the freon tank unit, try to fire it up lastnite. don't have charcoal yet, working on it. I used 3/4 to 1" cubs
of scrap lunber. Will try to upload picture of it blowing smoke
maybe my suction gun pulled to hard on it. It blow smoke about 6" up till it burnd out.
Les
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Comment by Les Carter on September 9, 2009 at 6:05am
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Have started building a freon tank unit to run my lawn mower. Charcoal I think would be the fuel for it(I think)
The charcoal maker posted by Chris sound like the way
to make my charcoal.
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Comment by ben on September 8, 2009 at 2:28pm -
Chris,
I like e-coal too, but Steve wants fuel made on site ideally. Which I totally understand.
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Comment by Chris Seymour on September 7, 2009 at 7:31pm -
I saw the new group, it made me remember the blog Torrification of wood on this sight a few months back. E coal does bio-char on an industrial scale and now bio-oil since I had last checked them out.
http://www.newearth1.net/e-coal.html
It makes a lot of sense, to make char just use an old 55 gallon oil drum over a camp fire and pipe the wood gas from the top of the barrel down and around to help fuel the proses.
cutting down on filtration is a big deal alone!
Thanks Chris
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