Dear Experimenters In a note this morning I mentioned grinding charcoal in a blender and said it made a very fine dust that could be used to make a "char dust torch".
My friend, Art Krenzel warns me that I should have said "explosive char dust", since dust explosions are as nasty as gas explosions. If you blow air through the blender making a continuous stream of combustible gas, be sure to have a very small passagesuch as a torch nozzle through which the mixture passes to the ignition point to act as a "flame arrestor". Otherwise you could wind up with pieces of glass or plastic in your skin AND destroy your wife's blender. EXERCISE CAUTION IN ALL THINGS THERMAL TOM REED, Still unscarred after 60 plus years of pyrotechnics... Dr Thomas B Reed President, The Biomass Energy Foundation www.Woodgas.com _______________________________________________ Gasification 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/gasification_lists.bioenergylists.org for more Gasifiers, News and Information see our web site: http://gasifiers.bioenergylists.org/
