Isn't it pretty wasteful to grind charcoal? We use it for smelting iron, albeit only in small amounts, about 300 or 400 pounds in a 7 or 8 hour day. But, you get a LOT of fines which are pretty useless unless you also have a briquetting plant. I also need to make coke chunks smaller to use in my blacksmith forge. I get "4 X 6" grade and break it down to about 3/4" cubed. Our group once rented a gravel crusher to reduce the stuff in size, but all that happened is that the crusher made a lot of dust and got plugged up.
I chop the bigger chunks to size with a hot cutter. (Others would call it a sort of Hatchet) It is obviously a lot of work. Better to start with the correct size stock, I'd say. Pete Stanaitis ----------------- _______________________________________________ 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/
