Joshua, Its always good to hear from you.
Regarding your request for creating activated carbon filter for purifying water, I am taking the liberty of passing this on to the stoves and the biochar online discussion groups, as these groups contain a host of really sound technical resource persons with year os experience from all over the globe. This seems to be a whole new application of/ rationale for biochar eh ? Anybody ? Kind regards, Richard Stanley www.legacyfound.org On Jan 19, 2012, at 11:55 PM, Joshua Guinto wrote: > Hi Rok and Richard > > Greetings ! > > I got this brewing opportunity to help the victims of the big disasters in > the south of the Philippines, in the city of Iligan and Cagayan de Oro where > about 2,000 persons died from the big floods last 16 to 17 December. \ > > At this moment, there are still thousands of evacuees living in the tents. > > I would like to help by teaching them how to make the rocket stoves, fuels > and water filters. Im quite confident with the stoves by now, but not the > water filter. > > I would like to make a water filter using activated carbon. We know that we > can carbonize wood and other biomass materials in the rocket stove simply by > controlling the inflow of air while cooking. > > But from the raw carbon, it has to be activated, that is making it acquire a > huge surface area. I once did an activated carbon by passing steam into a > coloumn of wood charcoal inside a bamboo pole. But now i cannot remember the > right procedure anymore. This i would like to seek your help on how to make > it in a post disaster situation. I guess, there will be a lot of wood debri > of timber, wood stick plus... pieces of metal and other parts of the house. > > The stoves and water purifier will help the victims a great deal. And i would > like to make my mark and gain my experience. > > Anticipating your remarks. > > Jed _______________________________________________ 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/
