Dear Robert, Below is a link to some of my work:
<http://www.puffergas.com/fireballs/charcoal-fireballs.html> root: <http://www.puffergas.com/fireballs/fireballs.html> I'll use purchased starch. Later I'll learn how to collect the starch found in cattail roots that I'm growing. Does starch have a fuel value? Maybe carbonize the top of the cattails and use the root extract as the binder. I plan on building a pan agglomerater out of 1/2 of a 55 gallon drum. As you can see I already have used a cement mixer with fins removed. I don't have any steel balls so I was thinking of using cement to cast the balls not as a binder. I would like to use a drum dryer. Jeff On Sun, 2011-08-28 at 19:59 +0700, Robert Kana wrote: > Yes the material is fragile and very easy to break in smaller pieces. > Any kind of a homemade crusher with balls, size screen and blower > will > do the job. You will need a mixer as well. What are you planning to > use > to make the fireballs? Disk type granulating machine can work. Same > system as to make fertilizers! What is your idea to use as a binding > agent, cement? Clay, flour, tapioca... they all will do a good job, > cement we have never tried, I could not comment on that. If it is for > your own use, cement mixer and put some steel balls inside, after it > is > crushed, remove the balls and add the binding agent. If you have > removable fins inside the cement mixer you can use it to make the > fireballs. They will be light weight. You can always shape them in to > snow balls sizes and dry in shade. > Regards, > Robert _______________________________________________ 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/
