Dear Tom
Really looking forward to being able to see char test results. We have really struggled to get a lab to do a proper ultimate analysis (even SGS) and express the results in the way we biomass burners expect. The infection of the methods by coal standards is evident everywhere. Regards Crispin ++++++ Crispin, If you can keep peak temperatures below about 750 C then you can keep a larger fraction of the K in the char. We have done this with staged combustion in a variety of straw burners. It is now done commercially in large scale straw burning power plants in Denmark, Spain and the UK. That's the beauty of biochar from crop residues - low peak temperature conversion to retain nutrients - but we have a wide variety of reactors, including stove types, to deal with. It would be interesting to see an elemental analysis of the principal ash components of the fuel and char from the TLUDs to see what elements are retained. I haven't seen a proximate, ultimate, Btu (HHV) and ash elemental analysis of any TLUD fuel. Tom
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