Re: Briquetting
Devlin : I think your right on the money with the briquette strategy .... It takes so much less infrastructure and start up capital to do the above ....
There are some sites with videos that are amazing in their simplicity .. and the equipment is compact.
I was talking to a fellow in Northern Ontario over the last year that seems to be doing what you are.
He goes in the bush after it's been selectively cut and grinds up the tops and scrap.
He actually gets paid to do that and ends up with the chips which he sells to pelleting companies, Landscaping and the like.
He wants to do the briquette thing but has not gotten there yet.
There are some sites with videos that are amazing in their simplicity .. and the equipment is compact.
I was talking to a fellow in Northern Ontario over the last year that seems to be doing what you are.
He goes in the bush after it's been selectively cut and grinds up the tops and scrap.
He actually gets paid to do that and ends up with the chips which he sells to pelleting companies, Landscaping and the like.
He wants to do the briquette thing but has not gotten there yet.
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Comment by Andy Berry on February 5, 2010 at 1:02pm -
I am brand new to the entire site here so hello . I am from the south here in NC and i know a fuel source that has my interest is free. The municple goverments in teh county i live as well as teh neighboring county gather teh brush from the curb and the trees that fall and carry them to the city dump.A couple times a year a tub grinder is brought in and grinds the limbs,trees,even pallets into a mulch and they simple give it away . I have wondered what type of fuel that would be if used in a gasifier.
Second thought strange , but sincere is has anyone ever looked into animal wast such as cow manure . When dried i wonder what range of heat it would make?
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Comment by ToddT on February 1, 2010 at 9:03pm
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Here in the South, logging outfits will go back and chip up the tops and slash (left over biomass) as boiler fuel for the paper mills. It's pretty much a wash as far as processing and transportation and fuel value. The landowner doesn't get any extra money but he does get the land cleaned up. The mill pays for the low value biomass fuel, what we call hog fuel as it goes onto a hog burner. I believe a portable briquetting machine could increase the value of this biomass byproduct by converting it into a gasifier feedstock.
I have a meeting later this week with a plant that makes dense molded plugs out of shavings and sawdust. I want to learn from them about pressures, density and drying of the biomass. Any questions y'all would like me to ask?
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