Hey Tom, I have been doing a course on TLUD with Dr. TLUD! Are you experience with a TLUD? Orange peels (thick) have been used in Haiti, however, someone has to have experience in using a TLUD. One also needs to co-fire them with another woody material.
All the best On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 6:39 AM, Tom Miles <[email protected]> wrote: > All,**** > > ** ** > > Many thanks for the all of the generous suggestions regarding orange peels. > We’ll compile them and put them on the websites while we determine what is > most suitable for the particular application in Southern Africa. **** > > ** ** > > I have to admit that when I last looked at a pile of orange peels (in > Brazil) I wasn’t thinking of how they could be used. It certainly looks like > at sufficient scale the limonene may be worth recovering. At smaller scales > management (rotting) or use (briquetting, drying, charring) of the peel also > seems to have potential. Pigs and chickens would also probably recycle the > peel, or make enough of a mess to be incorporated in compost or soil. > Feeding to birds with char is not high on my list unless there is a health > benefit. Usually the object is to increase weight gain my increasing intake > rather than reduce intake with a low density material like char. **** > > ** ** > > Regards,**** > > ** ** > > Tom **** > > ** ** > > _______________________________________________ > Digestion mailing list > > to Send a Message to the list, use the email address > [email protected] > > to UNSUBSCRIBE or Change your List Settings use the web page > > http://lists.bioenergylists.org/mailman/listinfo/digestion_lists.bioenergylists.org > > for more information about digestion, see > Beginner's Guide to Biogas > http://www.adelaide.edu.au/biogas/ > and the Biogas Wiki http://biogas.wikispaces.com/ > > > -- Vianney Tumwesige Director - Green Heat (U) Ltd [image: Picture] P.O. Box 10235 Kampala-Uganda 256 (0) 71 237 9889 "The more people are self sufficient in cooking fuel, the more personal and financial freedom they have." - Emma Casson <http://trustvianney.wordpress.com/>
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