Charcoal Gasification

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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

Comment by Les 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

Comment by Les on September 9, 2009 at 6:05am

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.

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.

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