Dear Tom and Lloyd, thanks a lot for the inputs. We make charcoal from sugarcane leaves that are left behind after harvest of sugarcane. One hectare produces about 10 ton leaves, which in turn yield about 3 ton char. Our present kilns work in batches, and are slow. I am in the process of developing a kiln for continuous charring. We are also looking for uses of charcoal apart from cooking. Making activated charcoal is one of them, but even a wider use would be to use it as vehicular fuel. My daughter's name is Priyadarshini (Priya for short). Yours A.D.Karve
On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 1:20 AM, Tom Reed <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear ADK > > Gasoline is NOT an unstable mixture. It has been stored for millions of > years in the ground, just waitin for we Humans to use it up in a century! > > (Gasoline plus air is certainly an unstable mixture.) > > Syngas is also unstable. The reaction > > CO + 2H2O ===> CH2 + H2O > > Is the basis of the Fischer-Tropsch process of making gasoline. An iron > or cobalt catalyst is necessary. > > Regards to your family and Priyadarshina(?) > > Tom Reed > > > Thomas B Reed > 280 Hardwick Rd > Barre, MA 01005 > 508 353 7841 > > On Mar 7, 2014, at 10:03 AM, Lloyd Helferty <[email protected]> > wrote: > > ... Gasoline is "an unstable mixture" too ~ just light a match anywhere > near it and you will soon find out. ;-) > But in this case [where we wish to use it for energy production], > "unstable" is a *good* thing. > > P.S. I assume that your last question about using "coal gas in an internal > combustion engine" was rhetorical... > > Regards, > > Lloyd Helferty, Engineering Technologist > Principal, Biochar Consulting (Canada) > www.biochar-consulting.ca > 48 Suncrest Blvd, Thornhill, ON, Canada > 905-707-8754 > CELL: 647-886-8754 > Skype: lloyd.helferty > Steering Committee coordinator > Canadian Biochar Initiative (CBI) > CURRENTS, A working group of Science for Peace > http://www.scienceforpeace.ca/currents/ > President, Co-founder & CBI Liaison, Biochar-Ontario > National Office, Canadian Carbon Farming Initiative (CCFI) > Organizing team member, 2013 N/A Biochar Symposium: > www.carbon-negative.us/symposium > Member of the Don Watershed Regeneration Council (DWRC) > Manager, Biochar Offsets Group: > http://www.linkedin.com/groups?home=&gid=2446475 > Advisory Committee Member, IBI > http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=1404717 > http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=42237506675 > http://groups.google.com/group/biochar-ontario > http://www.meetup.com/biocharontario/ > http://www.biocharontario.ca > www.biochar.ca > > "Producing twice as much food with diminishing resources, without further > loss of natural habitats and biodiversity and in a changing climate may be > the greatest challenge facing humanity." > - Lloyd Helferty > > On 2012-10-24 6:13 AM, Anand Karve wrote: > > Tar, a problem when using wood gas in an internal combustion engine, is >> automatically eliminated in the process of making charcoal.Charring does >> not require any input of external energy. Making coal gas from charcoal is >> also relatively simple. I was told that CO + H2 was an unstable mixture, >> but can one use freshly made coal gas in an internal combustion engine? >> Yours >> > A.D.Karve > > > -- > *** > Dr. A.D. Karve > Trustee & Founder President, Appropriate Rural Technology Institute (ARTI) > > > _______________________________________________ > 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/ > > > _______________________________________________ > 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/ > > -- *** Dr. A.D. Karve Trustee & Founder President, Appropriate Rural Technology Institute (ARTI)
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