On Thursday 13 October 2011 21:50:31 Gerrie Baker wrote: > Precisely that is why I propose using the huge boiler in the greenhouse > to produce biochar and the waste heat is "captured" and utilized for > raising worms and growing food.
There's no technical problems with this as Alex has demonstrated with a normal woodchip stoker boiler. > I would like input from experts who > want to advise and partner with this project. Nightime fire tending is > covered and when hot and air is shut down the char forms and the water > continues to circulate in the floor until light of day, No need to the high mass masonry type stove using a TLUD that Ronal seems to be advocating, go straight from sequentially fired batch loaded TLUD into a stratified water thermal store, if the floor runs at low temperature with an injector circuit the rejected heat in the water returning at ~30C need not destratify the store. > char is cooled > and removed and cycle resumes with reignighting the fire box mid > afternoon. The char chunks produced in this huge wood biomass burner is > amazing and I have noticed positive results in both the worm beds and > gardens where it is applied. Gerrie Why wait to cool the char, just dunk it to reduce the chance of a high CO emitting continued combustion? AJH _______________________________________________ Stoves 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/stoves_lists.bioenergylists.org for more Biomass Cooking Stoves, News and Information see our web site: http://www.bioenergylists.org/
