Crispin, You found me watching a series of youtube videos about pulse jet engines --ignited as it were by your reference to a means of etching out thin metal forms …
When dried, then decomposed a bit, Hyacinth tends to form a combination of strings and pithy mass of no particular value. The strings do however tend to encapsulate other more chunky materials and in that sense it is a mechanical binder. In and of itself it is not too useful as a combustible. (Tends to smoulder) Cardboard or as its known out here, 'cartonboard' uses a glue which in many cases is said to be carcinogenic. To many it simply stinks and it is actually washed off decanted of a soaking mass of th stuff abd refilling with fresh water to effectively dilute its concentration. That type of cartonboard is the great deciever in briquettemaking generally becasue for the newbie it seems great at the outset: it realy sticks things together dries rock hard …but then when t comes to testign the briquette one finds sadly that it is both hard to ignite and it stinks when combusted. Its best test is to burn it insitu. If it suggests a problem and you still really need the resource, saturate it and soak it for a few days, then decant the water, dilute with fresh water then test again when dry… Someday we will all have a wonderful text book for all of this eh ? Richard On Dec 5, 2011, at 2:42 PM, Crispin Pemberton-Pigott wrote: > Dear Richard > > I was looking at your list of formulations shown at > http://home.fuse.net/engineering/biomass/Biomass_Fuel_Briquette_Formulations > .pdf and wondered about Water Hyacinth (lilies). It is primarily the binder? > It is available in such huge quantities like Jinja where it collects at the > Source of the Nile. It always seems to have been an expense for the power > station that turning it into a viable binder for use nearby might give it a > small value. > > Similar question re cardboard boxes - it is the main binder when used? It > seems to be basically Kraft paper and glue. > > Thanks > Crispin > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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/ > _______________________________________________ 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/
